Giant gourami is a freshwater bony fish of the family Osphronemidae, living in calm water, with many aquatic plants.
Distributed in the plains of South Vietnam. This is a typical fish species for the tropics, distributed mainly in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
1. The habitat of the giant catfish
The fish live in ponds and lakes and freshwater swamps. They have respiratory organs, so they can live in stagnant water, lack of oxygen.
Fish can also survive in brackish water, the temperature threshold of 16-42 ° C, grow well at 25-30 ° C at lower temperatures than fish that are often sick.
A suitable PH is 5 live for giant gourami fishs.
They can survive in a dirty, oxygen-deficient pond water environment thanks to the accessory respiratory organs located in the first gill arch
Compared with goblins and tilapia, the cold tolerance of the giant fish is less, but the ability to withstand heat is higher.
2. Reproductive properties Giant Gourami fish
There should be a fairly large aquarium available for a pair of African Giant gourami fish to spawn. In the tank, we should put a brick in the standing position to make a nest for the fish to spawn on.
The Giant gourami female pair released into the lake can swim around normally. But some time we see two sliders chasing each other, biting each other, hitting each other’s heads, the male trying to control the female to obey … that’s a sign that tells me the fish is about to spawn.
When laying, the eggs lie in rows on the brick, not spawning one time continuously but dividing many times. Each time the female breathes, she lays another batch of eggs. The trick is that the eggs do not overlap. When the female is finished laying, the male goes to fertilize the egg nest, it poured on the egg a paste which is sperm …
And just like Discus fish habit, Giant gourami female drum also lurks around the egg nest while keeping eggs and using micro-fan as a form of incubating the eggs to fluctuate around the eggs, providing oxygen for the eggs …
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About a day after that the eggs hatch. The fry remained stuck in the same nest for three or four days. And during this time, the parents still diligently stay by the side to keep watch
Raising juveniles: When they are born, the fry do not know how to eat, they can survive by the food stored in their body.
After four days of age, the fry come out of the nest and can swim. The newly hatched African Tai Figs are very large and eat small foods such as bobo, egg yolks …
After about a week, fish can eat worms, bran ..
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