Red Robin Gourami=painted Fish?

[PlakatLuv]

I surfed the 'net looking for info on Red Robin Gouramis and am now completely confused as to their origins. It seems some people think they are specially-bred honeys, some think they are hybrids and others claim they are painted or "juiced" fish!
Here's the scary thing- I went surfing looking for pics that look like my "red robin" gourami, and the closest match I found was the "painted gourami" pictured on this Thai breeder's website:
<a href="http/www.vaquariumthailand.com/product/g...?group=gouramis" target="_blank">http/www.vaquariumthailand.com/product/g...?group=gouramis</a>
Now I wonder- did I buy a painted fish???

PS- Painted albino gouramis= SCARY!!! Pink polka-dots???

 

[Gill]

they are fed dyed foods to make them red. some farms use paprika in there foods, ergo the name paprika grourami.
i have seen what they look like when the dye in the food wears off and it is not pretty. they look very ill or like they are sunburnt with pataches of skin peeling off.

dunno why they do it, they are doing them tangerine as well now, seen a few of them last year, they did not sell

 

[Biulu]

It is not necessarily a painted fish. There is one colourmorph from Colisa lalia which shows the same colours.

Have a look at this link:

www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/Colisa_lalia_2.jpg

Actually, I have one like this and it is definitively not painted!

 

[PlakatLuv]

Have a look at this link:

www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/Colisa_lalia_2.jpg

Hey there,
mine looks very similar to the above picture, except his tail is white and there is much less of a blue tint on the head. He looks and acts healthy so far and his orange is very vivid- was sold to me as a plain honey gourami but he is far too bright in comparison to the honey photos I've seen. He also doesn't pale much when stressed (looks almost exactly the same, in fact) and I've read that regular honeys will turn very bland when upset.
Weirdness.
Edited to add: found this link to a similar topic, the picture of this person's fish looks just like mine:

http/www.fishforums.net/content/forum/25...Honey-Gourami-/
White tail, otherwise vivid orange body.

 

[tangokitty]

Some where purple?!

 

[PlakatLuv]

Some where purple?!

Some of the gouramis on the Thai dealer's website are purple polka-dotted. Some are pink polka-dotted. Real hideous. I wonder where people get the patience to inject that many dots on a fish?

As to the possibility of the red robin being painted with paprika, I wonder how that spice gets into the skin like that, instead of just being digested and dumped? I'm also a little surprised that feeding paprika wouldn't kill them instantly, it's all so very odd. What we would see if we snuck into a Thai fish warehouse!

 

[Biulu]

Have a look at this link:

www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/Colisa_lalia_2.jpg

Edited to add: found this link to a similar topic, the picture of this person's fish looks just like mine:

[URL="http/www.fishforums.net/content/forum/25...Honey-Gourami-/"]http/www.fishforums.net/content/forum/25...Honey-Gourami-/[/URL]
White tail, otherwise vivid orange body.

Definitively not painted, just a nice female! The picture I sent you is a male.