hey guys i went in to my local fish store today and bought some feeder fish on speicle for 15 neon tetras for $10 (aus) andbought some hikari food for my O's as i walked into the shop i seen this massive tank at least 10ft long and 4ft wide with this massive giant gourami it was at least 75-80 cm long pure white but a very ugly fish lol i was amazed on the size of the fish but more on the size of the tank!!! it got me thinking of he day i have enuff funds in the bank to buy my own lol but it wa the first time i had seen a fish lik this in person but the store had a large verierty of fish ex. dogfaced puffer fish clown fish (black and white & orange and white)there was lion fish octapus
dory fish lol cnt remember name lol and about 10 diff type of cichilds anenomes and loads more do you guys have this type of verierty at yu local store?????

Most of the LFS's round my way have a standard variety of fish they keep all the time, these include guppies, mollies and other standard community fish, certain cichlids (including oscars). They then also have occasional fish, examples are jags, green terrors. Others are rarer like syphilium. then there are the even rarer occasional fish which include hornet tilapia, arrowanas and piranhas. I hope this gives you an idea of stocking in my local LFS's

My LFS has a pretty decent selection of fish considered 'specialty' fish--not what you'd regualrly see in a pet/fish store. Usually they'll have something 'odd' every few weeks.
Unfortunately today they had 2 beautiful oscars someone gave up, each one in a 30 galllon. I swear both were over 13 inches, and one possibly 14. Never seen ones that large in person, and I never thought they would get so large in captivity. The ones head was about 2 inches wide from the front with a deep, deep forehead 'bend.' The guys at the store dont really have anywhere else to put fish that large by themselves other than the 30 gallon quaratine tanks...at least they might give them a fighting chance.

HUGE, gorgeous fish...both with really, really advanced HITH. Big white pits (some larger than their eye socket) all around the face and extended far down the lateral lines.

I cant believe someone got the oscar to grow that big but was enough of an idiot to let them get HITH and let it progress that far. I swear I would consider smacking someone if I saw them bring those in like that. At least they gave them up I guess...

WOW i cant believe some ppl would let somthing like that happen to such a large fish or get that bad i was amazed in the verierty this shop had but it seems that yu guys all over the place get some pretty good fish =]

i have seen this giant gurami in thailand last May 2010...they are huge
and being kept with koi.....


@Johnyphoenix, my o had breach the 14 inches mark before she died
of constipation when my son feed here with chicken giblets...


and presently these monster are already 12 inches long

we are a third world place but have plenty of fish species around...
only few hobbyist are responsible fish keeper.. the rest don't give
a damn... they just throw away fishes whenever they feel they don't
like it anymore... i can't help but that is life here... fishes are
very cheap....

well that is no good =[ but yu have some nice O's =]

Hi,
We had some small gourami in our community tank. But they died after maybe 2 or 3 moth. Some other lfs-owner told us that the guoramies you find here in holland are weak and mostly babys from the same family all the time. Like sister and brother or even grandpa .

I really liked those fish but it made me think twice. So now i'm waiting for my other comunity tank fish to get old and die so i can make a totaly other tank out of it.

Fish with compatability with the xingu and the sturisoma and the other pleco ;P

dimmy