Path: utzoo!hoptoad!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!ihlpa!chinwall
From: chinwall@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Chinwalla)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: aggressive gourami
Message-ID: <7621@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 88 01:05:28 GMT
Reply-To: chinwall@ihlpa.UUCP (Chinwalla,J.M.)
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 15

I bought two kissing gourami at the same time.  Once I
released them into the tank, the larger one started a continual
pursuit of the other until the smaller one was reduced to
hiding in one corner of the tank.  Sometimes the larger fish
would deliberately hunt the smaller one out of the corner and
chase it.  Finally, after two days, this smaller fish died.  I
recently got a second gourami the same size as the larger
fish.  The first, larger gourami was attacking the plastic bag
that held the new gourami.  Then, it started chasing it like
it did with the first fish.  This one chased back for a while
but eventually retired to the corner like the first and died.
What is going on here?  Should I give up on adding gouramis
and just leave this one a loner?  

Jean Chinwalla