Hi all,
I’m just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how / why my beautiful male honey gourami may have died? I was just feeding everyone when I found him upside down at the bottom of the tank.
The tank is a 160L community tank and has a few other honeys too. It’s a fully cycled tank with no ammonia or nitrites, and nitrates are pretty low too as it’s heavily planted. I do tank maintenance weekly, and they had their last clean / water change yesterday.
The gourami looked perfectly healthy (except for being deceased). He was still a lovely yellow with the typical sunset orange markings. There was no sign of any injury, infection, inflammation etc. He was only just under a year old.
The only problem I can immediately see is the water temperature. They are kept at 25°C, but unfortunately we are currently in a bit of a heatwave here, and all of my tanks have gone up a few degrees today. I took a thermometer reading and it was 27°C which is hotter than they’re used to, but still within the acceptable range stated online for honey gouramis. It is of course possible that the water was slightly higher than this earlier today, but the rest of the tank all seem fine.
Do you think the heat could have killed him? If so, what can I do to prevent this happening again?
Thank you.
I’m just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how / why my beautiful male honey gourami may have died? I was just feeding everyone when I found him upside down at the bottom of the tank.
The tank is a 160L community tank and has a few other honeys too. It’s a fully cycled tank with no ammonia or nitrites, and nitrates are pretty low too as it’s heavily planted. I do tank maintenance weekly, and they had their last clean / water change yesterday.
The gourami looked perfectly healthy (except for being deceased). He was still a lovely yellow with the typical sunset orange markings. There was no sign of any injury, infection, inflammation etc. He was only just under a year old.
The only problem I can immediately see is the water temperature. They are kept at 25°C, but unfortunately we are currently in a bit of a heatwave here, and all of my tanks have gone up a few degrees today. I took a thermometer reading and it was 27°C which is hotter than they’re used to, but still within the acceptable range stated online for honey gouramis. It is of course possible that the water was slightly higher than this earlier today, but the rest of the tank all seem fine.
Do you think the heat could have killed him? If so, what can I do to prevent this happening again?
Thank you.