OK, OK, I have understood. You girls and boys like licorice and you think it’s a fitting name and the Paros could be satisfied being named this way, and – especially – if one wanted to change that there would be no good prospects whatsoever. And “pompous”, no, by no means something like that. Mike certainly is right in reminding me on the really true problem: the fate of being a “difficult fish”. Should/could we do something against that? I just tried so in a German journal, saying that aquaria for these gouramis are not more difficult to be cared for than the “normal” tanks but only different. You must change your habits, but you don’t need many of the stuff offered for the normal tank today: dry industrial food every four weeks, a big, expensive filter station, an expensive carbon dioxide station, water additives and so on. But again I admit: You cannot change people who are not willing to think anew. So, it will be a “fate” adhering to our fish, to be difficult.
OK, licorice gouramis for ever. (You think that I am not quite convinced? Well, but it doesn’t matter; we call them Prachtguramis, you call them licorice gouramis, that’s the state of the art and the state shall be fixed …)
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