Gourami jumper :(

[Skrabbitskrabbit]

Just bummed

I had just done a water change in the same way I normally do, at the usual time after dinner before lights out. My paradise fish was happily swimming in the current from the water change as usual. She was being playful as I was cleaning up and seemed to be watching and following my toddler run around. I went to bed and had no idea anything was wrong during the night but discovered the dead fish in the morning on the floor :’(
So I’m just sad. It was not fun to find my favorite fish that way.
I don’t have a lid but I have thick mat of floating plants covering 90% of the surface. My parameters are all normal (0/0/10) and I don’t think she was ill. I don’t know if I’ll find out for certain why it happened but hopefully she was just so giddy on water change energy, she just blasted out of the tank in a moment of bliss.

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

Most gouramis and relatives are big jumpers, he could have been spooked, saw a bug, or just decided to jump. Most of the time these things are random and not caused by an illness of some sort.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Well, in the wild, fish do jump for lots of different reasons. Often to try and catch a bug or something. But sometimes i swear they just jump for sheer joy!

 

[Broggy]

usually because they see a fruit fly or something. I also don't think fish understand the concept of drying out, because for all they know, there could be more water where the floor is.

 

[Skrabbitskrabbit]

usually because they see a fruit fly or something. I also don't think fish understand the concept of drying out, because for all they know, there could be more water where the floor is.

Yeah. That’s sort of what I said to my child. That the fish didn’t know there wasn’t any water out here and no one was around to help get it back to the aquarium so it could live.

 

[fallfever]

Bummed for both you and your toddler. Sometimes you do all the right things and still lose your fish. This weekend I had my dog (smart pup) bring me a deceased 4 inch giant danio that somehow escaped a tight lidded 75 gallon that couldn't have more than a 1/4 inch opening. I don't lose many fish, but per my daughter's rules, I had to bury him. I'm honestly not sure how weird that is.

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

Oh, I do it too, you're not weird. My fish would have gotten a whole funeral (He was one of my 2 favs), but it was really cold, so I just sang amazing grace lol.