14/04/2026
Over 10,000km travelled sourcing specimens and nearly 5 years of trial and error. After multiple failed spawns, I'm super exciting to announce we've finally had a successful spawn of Red Tail Giant Gouramis ๐๐๐
Being an Endangered species and possibly the only recorded case of them being successfully bred within a glass aquarium, this has to be one of my proudest achievements in the hobby ๐
Hey everyone, its Tharinda here, for those of you that aren't familiar, this is a project I've been working on for nearly 5 years now. And eventhough I did spend a few of those years being lazy and not really putting much effort in, late 2025 I decided to give it a proper crack.
So I cleared out all my old breeders and started again from scratch. I drove about 4000km to source out 5 new adults to add to the project. And as you can see from the photos, they were some of the nicest specimens I've ever seen ๐ฅ
Once the new fish were settled in, I moved a trio into a breeding tank and gave it my best shot.
As per usual the male built a nest with the occasional help from the females but that seemed to be as far as it went. After about 6-8 weeks of checking daily, I started to think it was probably not going to happen.
As time went on I only checked the cameras weekly since nothing else seemed to be happening. But to my surprise, when I checked the nest today, I saw a couple of good sized fry looking at me from inside the nest.
Going by their size, the adults must have spawned approximately 1.5-2 months ago. And the male must have done such a great job packing the nest, I never noticed any loose eggs floating around.
Anyway, that's enough rambling. I'm just really happy that after all these years I finally managed to get it done.
The fry are currently being grown out at The Aquarium Factory where they will soon be ready for their new homes ( roughly 4-5 weeks from now ) ๐๐๐
So definitely come down and check them out
Super grateful for everyone that has helped me along the way and looking forward to see what the future holds โค๏ธ
Check out some clips in the comments below ๐
