FISHIOLOGY

This video demonstrate how the Giant Borneo gouramy changes its pattern according to its mood. It can formed the common Giant Gouramy concave pattern and switched to the Giant borneo gouramy tappered pattern at a snapped of a finger. I've never encountered a fish that can change its pattern to disguise as another species. Why do they display this behavior? Concave Bar Tappered Bar Changing bar pattern

Osphronemus Septemfasciatus can also show the bar pattern of Osphronemus Goramy, I only notice this phenomena when the fish is around 14". Are these pattern emerged only when they are sub adult? When I was searching for the O.Sep I came across a variant of Osphronemus Goramy Kapuas hulu, they show correlative pattern of the O.Sep. The hulu kapuas var O.Goramy is rather confusing as they are so similar to the O.Sep except for the concave bar. After encountering my O.Sep forming the same bar pattern, I can't help but wonder if the O.Goramy var hulu kapuas that I came across earlier are they the same fish? I do not have a clear photo but the only way to identify them apart now is the cheek line pattern. It will be tricky to ID the O.Sep from the O.Goramy hulu kapuas. O.Sep forming the concave bar, they show this bar pattern according to their mood and will revert back to their original tappered bar. A variant of O.Goramy from hulu kapuas

Giant Borneo Gourami formation of the cheek line, its interesting to see and record the formation of the cheek line and hopefully I can manage to do so for the entire headshape changes.

If you are to substitute bigfoot to a fish species then the Giant Borneo Gourami is probably the perfect candidate of Bigfoot in the fish world. It is spotted and caught by fisherman all over the Borneo continent but yet, you cannot find a single living fish out there for sale. I've spread words to Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah and Kalimantan for the passed 3 years and I could not get a single living specimen. Osphronemus septemfasciatus - Giant Borneo Gourami, is a recent discovered species of the Osphronemus family by Tyson R. Roberts 1992. His data shows the extend of the species as below RANGE DESCRIPTION The species is known from Sarawak (central and north), Brunei Darussalam, Kalimantan Barat (Kapuas drainage), Kalimantan Timur (Mahakam drainage), and Kalimantan Utara (Kayan drainage) Borneo (Roberts 1992, Kottelat and Lim 1996, Parenti and Lim 2005). There are probably 2 var that I've noticed of the Osphronemus septemfasciatus species. Those from the Sarawak ...