What is a giant goures?
Giant goures, also known as ordinary gounes or right gounes, is a large food from Southeast Asia. Giant Gouramis are also sometimes held as pets. These fish are omnivoči, which means they feed on weeds, smaller fish and crustaceans in the wild. Adult fish usually have a blunt head and an oval body and are dark brown. Males of species can sometimes show aggression towards each other and change the appearance of women slightly. Unripe fish can be orange or reddish -brown, with brown stripes. Adult fish usually lose these stripes and become dark brown, although it is known that some giant gouramis become pink or white when they mature. Scale can carry a silver iris.
These fish are known as gourns because they can grow to a length of 28 inches (71 cm). They live in the wild in shallow -bone. Giant Goures is a labyrinth fish, a kind of freshwater fish that have a special organ that allows it to breathe air from the water surface. This body ofIt causes giant gounes well adapted to oxygen, weeds and shallow waters. It also means that giant goures can survive out of the water for hours, which makes transportation for the purposes of breeding and supplying ponds.
men and women of this kind generally differ in appearance. Males usually depict the "nuchal hump", which made the forehead swollen. Males of species also have sharply aimed dorsal and anal fins than women. These fish breeds through a bubble nest, built between the leaves of aquatic plants on the surface of the water. Fry emerges from the nest about two weeks after the eggs are laid.
While the giant Gouramis are often bred as pets, they are large, predatory fish and should be a bunch in a large aquarium with other large, non -aggressive fish. Some giant fans, howeverAbout live food in captivity.
Because they are large fish, they should ideally be held in a large aquarium when they are captured. The appropriate tank size may vary according to the size of the maintained fish, but the tank for 40 inches (101 cm) is considered to be a minimum size for small gourns. These fish appear to be the best at water temperatures between 68 and 86 ° Fahrenheit (20 to 30 ° C). In captivity, the fed of worms of blood, earthworms, small fish, fish pellets or flakes or insects may be. Oatmeal, lettuce and spinach can be fed to replace water weeds in the prisoner's diet.