Pearl gourami just kinda died

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My pearl gourami died today and I'm not really sure why, water was all normal except maybe the nitrate was a bit high around 40ppm. Temp was same, I was a couple days late on a water change but I wouldn't think that would make a huge difference, I did have a power outage tho for maybe 30 min so that might have caused it but all my other fish are fine. The gourami seemed fine when I got up this morning chasing my plates around then after power came on I noticed her laying on the ground and it kinda looked like she had some nicks on her head that I never saw before today. I saw the and started doing a water change and before I even started she was floating at the top just like she was taking her last breath.

Other inhabitants
Roseline sharks
Various loaches
Berry barbs
Upside down catfish
Corys
Raphael catfish
Electric blue acar
Never had any issue with aggression in the tank except maybe roseline pick on the smallest of the group

Tanks been running with this stock for maybe 4 months and gourami was one of the first additions.
 
Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something I did, and if I did do it wat to be doing differently since I'm still new to fishkeeping, thanks tho!
 
Nitrates at 40ppm is at the higher end of what you want but not crazy high, not high enough to kill the gourami I don't think. I've found gourami's to be pretty hard to keep alive actually. Sorry about your fish.
 
Yup, very frustrating when random sudden death occurs. I just lost one of my Bolivian rams the other day. Totally healthy, eating well, no marks or weird patches on her. She was perfect. Found her floating. :/
 
I'm pretty sure 40 ppm do nothing to your live stock, Nitrate has major effect to newly hatched fries, juv. fish less than an inch size. Most big fish not or do not care much about nitrate if nitrate do not built up to the extreme level. I did post about my Tesselata lived in 160+ ppm Nitrate for over a year before I use carbon dosing, and it didn't care or show any illness effect, it's growth rate don't even slow down with that high nitrate either. Although, this is not recommended to anyone or example for anyone to follow but few days late in water change do not kill your fish.
 
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