bosk1
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I have had my two gouramis for about a month now. Both were purchased fairly small. In the month I have had them, the gold gourami has grown just a bit. The blue has about doubled in size! And she is such a food hog! My usual method of feeding is to sprinkle a bit of flake food and/or freeze dried bloodworms to keep the gouramis and shark busy at the top of the tank, and then drop a wafer or two for the loach/pleco to find. I am not worried about the gold gourami or the shark. Even though the blue tends to chase the gold out of the way when there is food present, the gold and the shark still seem to get enough. But she not only hogs a great deal of the surface food, but then once it is all gone, she prowls the bottom in search of the wafers. I think she has been doing that all along, which is why she is so fat dispite the fact that I feed relatively small amounts. (enough to be eaten in about a minute or so, not counting whatever small bits manage to fall to the bottom without being snatched up) But it is only recently that I have caught her doing it immediately after the flakes/worms are gone. She has figured out the routine, and knows there will be something down at the bottom of the tank!