Hi all,
My golden gourami has been living in my dad’s tank for a while now, almost a year. (I raised him in a twenty gallon and he moved to the sixty when he got bigger). He lives with some angels and discus and my comet goldfish as well, who are all healthy. Recently for the past couple of weeks I noticed he is spending all his time lying on the bottom. He looks fine to me and when I approach the glass he gets up and swims for a bit and then lies back down. I’ve noticed he is swimming laboriously (although not for lack of energy) like his bottom fins don’t function quite right. They are kind of tinged dark brown at the bottom. His head is always higher than his tail and he has to wiggle his whole body to swim. I feel like if he tried he couldn’t simply drift near the surface and would just sink. But he is not breathing heavily and eats normally, so I don’t know what is wrong. He used to have fish to pick on in his old tank but now he can’t, too.
My golden gourami has been living in my dad’s tank for a while now, almost a year. (I raised him in a twenty gallon and he moved to the sixty when he got bigger). He lives with some angels and discus and my comet goldfish as well, who are all healthy. Recently for the past couple of weeks I noticed he is spending all his time lying on the bottom. He looks fine to me and when I approach the glass he gets up and swims for a bit and then lies back down. I’ve noticed he is swimming laboriously (although not for lack of energy) like his bottom fins don’t function quite right. They are kind of tinged dark brown at the bottom. His head is always higher than his tail and he has to wiggle his whole body to swim. I feel like if he tried he couldn’t simply drift near the surface and would just sink. But he is not breathing heavily and eats normally, so I don’t know what is wrong. He used to have fish to pick on in his old tank but now he can’t, too.
