giant goramis

[indrajitmasuda]

LITTLEGOLDSNAIL i find it has been a month since i posted on this forum. Bob is now almost a foot and opens his mouth as if to bite - cant risk it might injure me. wonder whether he is just being playful or this is some kind of aggressive behavior. again he gets furious when I put the net in to sweep up food droppings which he has ignored. D oes that if you drop food not precisely where his snout is. Real fussy. Many times he has attacked the net even held on to its steel frame and not let it go. Gave me a fair idea of what force his bite has. His appetite grows by the day. Now if i don't drop the food immediately he gets angry and impatient and jumps 4 inches out of the tank to grab it from my hand. Now therefore i dutifully drop the food immediately - don't want to lose my fingers.

Last month i became preoccupied with my budgies. its a long story which i have put on my blog on wordpress.com. The post is called AVIAN SAGA IN MY BACKYARD. Im sure you will enjoy reading the post - the link is given below

indrajitrathore.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/avian-saga-in-my-backyard/

[oliviakay222]

Jun 21, 2021 13:17:44 GMT indrajitmasuda said:

LITTLEGOLDSNAIL i find it has been a month since i posted on this forum. Bob is now almost a foot and opens his mouth as if to bite - cant risk it might injure me. wonder whether he is just being playful or this is some kind of aggressive behavior. again he gets furious when I put the net in to sweep up food droppings which he has ignored. D oes that if you drop food not precisely where his snout is. Real fussy. Many times he has attacked the net even held on to its steel frame and not let it go. Gave me a fair idea of what force his bite has. His appetite grows by the day. Now if i don't drop the food immediately he gets angry and impatient and jumps 4 inches out of the tank to grab it from my hand. Now therefore i dutifully drop the food immediately - don't want to lose my fingers.

Last month i became preoccupied with my budgies. its a long story which i have put on my blog on wordpress.com. The post is called AVIAN SAGA IN MY BACKYARD. Im sure you will enjoy reading the post - the link is given below

indrajitrathore.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/avian-saga-in-my-backyard/ 

Hello! Indeed, your article is interesting.

[indrajitmasuda]

For those who have read my earlier post on this phenomenal fish he needs no introduction.He began in my aquarium some 4 inches long, a juvenile Giant gorami which would eventually grow 18 inches. I saw him grow by the month till 2 years later , now in a bigger tank he was a foot long, golden in colour and beautiful.He survived many crises from deadly bacteria infection to jumping out on the the floor when the tank was being cleaned. He had a voracious appetite for vegetables and fruit and dried worms. And would only eat if fed with my hand. we grew to know each other through eye contact and pats on his head signalling food. Over those years i fed him for over half an hour each day communicating thus and bearing all his fussy ways. whenever i passed the tank he would do a little frisky dance flapping his pectoral fins in a charming manner inviting me to feed him. He also learnt to kiss my finger which became his favourite object of love and desire. Later he realized that the finger was just an extension of the face that appeared through the tank glass and would fix his large eyes in eye contact.I couldnt believe what was happening though i have kept aquarium fish since childhood. A fish with dog like intelligence and responsiveness, even the evidence of affection. As time passed we became inseperable, me spending at least an hour each day in his care. He even began to jump out of the tank to grab the food from my fingers. Any fish company he resented and all introductions for company were killed in 24 hours.

I realised that when he outgrew this tank i would have to release him in a pool or lake as i could not keep a giant fish in a giant tank in my house. One possibility was to get a large cement tank in the backyard or garden to house him. But that eventuality did not arise as Jaipur temperaturs plunged to near freezing this January and the heater in the tank was probably in effective. After a good meal of carrot chips and cucumber and spinich this morning my servant found him thrashing around the tank and seeking to jump out of it like a blind fish. I was woken to find that dear Bob lay dead at the bottom of the tank. He must surely have ascended to a fish heaven or been reincarnated to a higher spevies.

The night before going to bed i put my finger as wasc. my practice to stroke his image through the glass or pet his head.He immediately responded putting his mouth to the impression of the finger did his usual pectoral flapping dance and playfully opened his mouth wide as if to bite it. Bad boy That was our farewell and i miss him dearly whenever i pass his tank.