So I had this pearl gourami for quite a few months and suddenly without showing the slightest hint of poor health or stress she just up and died while I was at work. I fed her before I left. She ate as well as she always did. I came home to find her skeleton.
There are no issues at all with the water chemistry. The tankmates are all peaceful towards her - rasboras, SAEs and a female betta. No diseases or parasites in the tank. No new fish have been introduced in several months.
You all know me as someone who knows what he's doing so of course spare me the "did you do this, what was the condition of that" sort of stuff. haha
I've just never had a fish of this sort die so suddenly without a hint of distress beforehand. Naturally I'm accustomed to the sudden loss of small schooling fish and others like them. But to leave for work with a perfectly healthy and robust pearl gourami and come home nine hours later to a clean picked skeleton. Well, that's almost humorous.
There are no issues at all with the water chemistry. The tankmates are all peaceful towards her - rasboras, SAEs and a female betta. No diseases or parasites in the tank. No new fish have been introduced in several months.
You all know me as someone who knows what he's doing so of course spare me the "did you do this, what was the condition of that" sort of stuff. haha
I've just never had a fish of this sort die so suddenly without a hint of distress beforehand. Naturally I'm accustomed to the sudden loss of small schooling fish and others like them. But to leave for work with a perfectly healthy and robust pearl gourami and come home nine hours later to a clean picked skeleton. Well, that's almost humorous.