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	Gourami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gouramies are a family Osphronemidae of freshwater perciform fish.
		The fish originate on the Asian continent from Pakistan and India to the Malay Archipelago and north-easterly towards Korea.
		Many gouramies have an elongated ray at the front of their pelvic fins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gourami (168 words)

	AquariumFish.com :: Aquarium Fish Magazine :: The monthly magazine for both novice and expert aquarium hobbyists. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The chocolate gourami (Sphaerichthys osphromen-oides osphromenoides) hails from Malaysia and Sumatra.
		The thick-lipped gourami (Colisa labiosa) is a handsome fish from Mayanyar (Burma) and India.
		Opaline gouramis are capable of reaching about 6 inches in length, and are regarded as one of the larger aquarium fish species.
	www.aquariumfish.com /aquariumfish/detail.aspx?aid=1476&cid=53&category= (2554 words)

	Freshwater Gouramis
		Most Gouramis for the aquarium belong to the family Belontidae and are referred to as anabantoids or labyrinth fish.
		Gouramis have the amazing ability to gulp air from the surface of the water.
		Dwarf Gouramis are native to India, Burma, and Borneo and have been selectively bred to achieve incredible color forms.
	www.peteducation.com /category_summary.cfm?cls=16&cat=1957 (148 words)

	Chocolate Gourami
		The Chocolate Gourami is a delicate fish that should be housed in at least a 30 gallon tank.
		The Chocolate Gourami is a mouth brooder that is a frugal spawner.
		The Chocolate Gourami is an omnivore and prefers both algae-based foods as well as meaty foods.
	www.liveaquaria.com /product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=999 (336 words)

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		Kissing gouramis should be housed in large aquariums (i.e., 75 gallons or more) that are densely plant with Java fern and Java moss on the sides and back of the aquarium, as well as floating plants, such as Riccia species.
		Their long trailing “feelers,” which are the ventral fins of the pearl gourami, are very tempting to fin nippers such as tiger barbs or serpae tetras, so you have to be careful about not keeping these and similar fish with pearls.
		The male pearl gourami stakes out a corner of the tank and constructs a bubble nest at the surface of the water out of mucous-coated bubbles that he blows.
	www.erdingtonaquatics.com /gourami.html (1328 words)

	Breeding Gouramis
		Gouramis are a quite popular chocies among fish hobbyists.
		The pearl gourami is one of the most beautiful of all the gouramis.
		Their nature and needs of treatment are similar to those of the pearl gouramis, they will eat anything they are being feed, however they prefer live foods and prepared mixtures.
	www.articleavenue.com /modules.php?name=News&file=read_article&sid=687&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (600 words)

	Anabantids
		In this group are the Betta, the Gourami and the Perch.
		This is a long, slender Gourami who lacks the elongated dorsal fin; it is short, and pointed.
		This is a gold-colored Gourami with light stripes.
	www.aqualink.com /catalogs/xanabant.html (1283 words)

	Re: clown missing dorsal fin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Gourami are very easy to care for, they were right there.
		If you love the color and antics of gourami just try not to "pair" them off and make sure there are enough where they are too busy with pecking order to bother other fish.
		I have croaking gourami, betta pugnax, and both types of chocolate gourami here.
	aquaweb.pair.com /forums/archives/loach5/index.cgi?read=74790 (219 words)

	Club Jungle: Welcome To The Club! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Male: The male Chocolate Gourami has a fine yellow line, running along the edge of its anal and caudal fins.
		Chocolate Gourmies are shy, peaceful, delicate fish that like to be kept in small groups of 6 or 8.
		The female Chocolate Gourami may keep her young in her mouth for up to 14 days or more.
	www.clubjungle.com /pages/speciesdetail.asp?id=80 (462 words)

	How to Care for Chocolate gouramis, Sphaerichthys osphromenoides, with pictures
		With a 40% death rate before opening their bag, this is not a propitious beginning to our research into chocolate gouramis.
		Five chocolate gouramis disappeared into the shrubbery for the nonce.
		Since the neons, rams, and discus are happy as oysters or scallops or whatever in this water, we figured the chocolate gouramis would adapt also.
	www.aqualandpetsplus.com /Gourami,%20Chocolate.htm (517 words)

	Chocolate Gourami \| Sphaerichthys osphromenoides
		The dorsal and anal fins are long and extend from the midsection of the body, nearly to the caudal fin.
		The main body coloration is chocolate brown with variations to reddish brown.
		The Chocolate Gourami is the most difficult Labyrinth fish to care for.
	fish.mongabay.com /species/Sphaerichthys_osphromenoides.html (427 words)

	Animal Planet :: Fish Guide -- Gouramis
		The Blue Gourami has only two spots, one in the center of the body, and a second at the beginning of the tail.
		Blue Gouramis are considered labyrinth fish, meaning that although they are equipped with gills, they also have a special organ which allows them to also breathe directly from the air.
		This gourami is a rather peaceful fish that is very comical to watch as a juvenile.
	animal.discovery.com /guides/fish/freshwater/bluegourami.html (416 words)

	Chocolate gourami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chocolates are native to quiet waters of Sumatra and Malaysia Peninsula.
		The general coloration is a dirty gray-brown, intensifying to chocolate brown when in good health.
		Three major white vertical bands occur, the first at the rear of the head, the second at about the middle of the body and the last at the rear of the dorsal.
	www.dec.ctu.edu.vn /cdrom/cd6/projects/nus_tropical_fish/chocolat.htm (141 words)

	* Chocolate Gourami - (Aquarium): Definition
		The Chocolate Gourami is a peaceful fish that is greenish-brown with pearly-yellow stripes running vertically along its body...
		Chocolate Gourami: Likes a very acidic pH, and must be housed with only its own species.
		One of the most delicate species of fish to keep, it is very fussy about water quality and food...
	en.mimi.hu /aquarium/chocolate_gourami.html (269 words)

	ChocGourami
		The Chocolate Gourami belongs to the group known as Labyrinth Fish, named after the specialised structure in their head (the labyrinth) that allows them to breathe air.
		Because the Chocolate Gourami is so sensitive to poor water quality, some Discus breeders sometimes them as indicator species in their Discus tanks.
		Chocolate Gouramis are the most demanding of the Labyrinth fish to keep.
	www.wetpetz.com /chocgourami.html (1115 words)

	The Anabantids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The family belongs to the Order Labyrinthici, which is characterized by the presence of an auxiliary breathing apparatus in addition to the ordinary gills for the retention of air for breathing.
		The male is always with brilliant colour on the body and the female is quite dull compared with her mate.
		At spawning time the male wraps his body round that of the female in such a way that her belly is turned upwards so that when she releases her eggs they float up into the slightly sticky bubble nest.
	www.dec.ctu.edu.vn /cdrom/cd6/projects/nus_tropical_fish/anabanti.htm (256 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Chocolate gourami will accept frozen food in an ideal tank, but flakes will be ignored.
		The Chocolate Gourami requires consistent parameters to remain healthy.
		The Chocolate Gourami is a species recommended for the advanced aquarist looking for a rewarding challenge.
	www.fishprofiles.com /files/profiles/chocolate.xml (172 words)

	allan2
		In one of the streams, we found a species of gourami swimming near the submerged grass."Its the chocolate gourami!!!", Methos shouted.
		We managed to catch a few chocolate gourami and then moved to another flwater stream.
		Even though we failed to find the licorice gourami, we're still happy to bring home the chocolate gourami for the very first time.
	www.geocities.com /kuchingensis/allan2.html (416 words)

	The Labyrinth Fishes
		The moonlight gouramis are a silverish color, sometimes with a bluish shimmer.
		The moonlight gouramis are moderately easy to breed, meaning they are not as easy as some, but they are possible to spawn in the aquarium.
		In the chocolate gouramis the males are larger with better-developed and somewhat pointed dorsal fins.
	www.calgaryaquariumsociety.com /Articles/The_Labyrinth_Fishes_Part_1.html (3722 words)

	Pictures of several species and varieties of gouramis
		Gouramis belong to this group of Anabantids that take air from the surface of the water.
		Chocolate Gouramis demand water too warm for most people to keep.
		Paradise Fish are a close cousin to the Gouramis.
	www.aqualandpetsplus.com /Gouramis,%20Miscellaneous.htm (897 words)

	Sparkling (Pygmy) Gourami - Trichopsis pumilus
		My mother has her Gourami tank full of all different kinds of fish from the Chocolate to the Sparkler and almost anything in between.
		This species is also sometimes called the Dwarf Croaking Gourami, as it "croaks" when it gets excited or afraid, and sometimes when they spawn.
		All 5 of them surrounded the betta and as he was twisting and turning to keep an eye on them all, one Sparkler would swim in quickly and nip the betta's tail.
	www.aquahobby.com /gallery/gsparkling.html (1030 words)

	Chocolate Gourami
		Sexing is very difficult in some specimens the border of the tail and anal fin is yellow on the male and clear on the female.
		Unlike most other Gouramis they are mouth brooders and not bubble nest builders.
		Breeding them is very rare in captivity but it has been done, when the fry emerge they are miniature replicas of the adults.
	www.fishtanksandponds.net /live-stock/fishprofiles/chocolate_gourami.htm (187 words)

	Anabantoids
		the true Gouramis (from which the most common name for the group is derived) exceed two feet in length in the wild.
		From small, almost-too-shy to keep Chocolate gouramis to great peaceful aquarium types like the genus Colisa and some Trichogasters, to the "mid-levels" of easygoingness with most of the species available (good to go with Angels, larger livebearers, barbs, rasboras, danios, mid-size tetras), to the eat-all "true" Goramis...
		Thread-fin obsession: Observations on the Chocolate Gourami, Sphaerichthys osphromenoides.
	www.wetwebmedia.com /FWSubWebIndex/anabantoids.htm (2456 words)

	Gouramis & Anabantids
		Gold Honey Dwarf Gouramis are extremely hardy, accepting a wide variety of foods.
		Gold honey gouramis are easily bred with the fish using floating plants to build their bubble nest - this is quite likely to occur even in the retail situation.
		Due to their peaceful nature, Sparkling Gourami should be kept in well-planted aquaria containing equally peaceful fish.
	www.bayfish.com.au /category16_1.htm (227 words)

	Aquarium FD - Anabantids - Gouramis - Kissing Gourami (Helostoma temminckii) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Kissing Gourami is peaceful, these fish lock mouths and look similar to what a kissing fish would look like.
		The Kissing Gourami is a fine fish to be kept in a community tank with small to large companions.
		Kissing Gouramis are often seen in aquariums with bigger Tetras and Plecostomus.
	www.fishdeals.com /anabantids/gourami/kissing_gourami (801 words)

	* Licorice Gourami - (Aquarium): Definition
		The Licorice Gourami is one of the smallest and most beautifully colored labyrinth fish...
		This little Licorice Gourami species comes from the eastern Malaysian Peninsula and north to South Thailand where it inhabits slow moving streams and swamps.
		Barely an inch in length it is a timid little cave spawner, preferring soft, acidic water...
	en.mimi.hu /aquarium/licorice_gourami.html (165 words)

	Introducing: Labyrinth Fishes - by Ruby Bayan - Freelance Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the easiest aquarium fish to take care of is the gourami.
		Active, colorful, and tolerant of most water conditions, gouramis are good inhabitants of a community aquarium.
		Many of them tend to be a bit timid, though, suffering infections when more aggressive breeds bully them around or nip at their elongated ventral fins.
	www.oursimplejoys.com /freshwateraquaria/article1013.html (554 words)

	Labyrinth Fishes, Part I : The Gouramis. By Jennifer Wilkinson
		The three-spot gourami is one of the easiest of the labyrinth fishes to breed.
		The moonlight gouramis are a silvery color, sometimes with a bluish shimmer.
		The giant gourami is a brown to bluish Gary in color.
	www.aquarticles.com /articles/breeding/Wilkinson_Labyrinth1.html (3139 words)

	Aquarium Fish Deals - Anabantids - Gourami Species (Gourmis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Larger Gouramis are very graceful swimmers work best in the semi-aggressive community aquarium with fish similar to it's adult size.
		Gouramis can also be helpful reducing an overpopulation of snails.
		Gouramis for under 2 bucks is a steal.
	www.fishdeals.com /anabantids/gourami (811 words)

	Chocolate Gourami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chocolate Gourami origin from Sumatra, Borneo, Malay Peninsula.
		The waters are overgrown with aquatic and floating plants and have a few open spaces.
		Chocolate gourami are very peaceful and delicate species, who do best if kept in a small group.
	www.apoon.com /cgourami.htm (97 words)

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