Chocolate Gourami questions.
What varieties/species of what are generally called Chocolate Gouramis show up in Singapore? Apparently, folks haven't learned how to ship them well, so they tend to be pretty rare, here. I guess the same problem faces the Licorice gourami species. Not being too easy to breed, we just don't get to see them very often.
Robert Nhan once told me he collected some Chocs in Viet Nam and couldn't even get them to the airport alive and he's about as skillful a fishkeeper as I know.
What's happening here? [In Robert's case, he may have just had a water-quality problem.] Why are they so delicate?
A few years ago, I got a small group of beautiful Chocolates at Ocean Aquarium in SF. They had a most unusual red belly and anal fin. I never got them to breed (may not have had a pair), but didn't try as hard as I should have. I forget where they went when I shut down my Fremont fishroom.
I'd even be tempted to deviate from my "killifish purist" posture if I could find them, again. I also like both the Licorice Gourami and Betta foerschi but the only sources are not very accessible to me.
[Oops! The chubs I use to keep my "green water" green aren't killies. I guess I'm already sinning!]
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