Clownfish Problems

[Lorna]

Okay I found my missing clown. He has been holed up literally in a hole in the live rock. He hasn't eaten that I know of and won't come out to eat even garlic laced food. He has crammed himself totally vertical in a crevice in the rock???? what is going on here???? the water parameters are all zero sg is 1.025 temp 80 tank fully cycle. He has been in there since last saturday...he was swimming around and eating fine until yesterday morning when I couldn't find him in his usual corner in the morning when I got up. He had been harassed a bit by the chromis but they have settled down now.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

mine now "sleeps" in a weird way since the chromis own the eastside ( where he lives ) .

 

[Lorna]

well he's been in this same large rock for 2 days and won't come out. Changes places within the rock but this is where he was today when I got home from work. I haven't seen him swimming around at all. Tomorrow I am setting up a quarantine hospital tank and will move him and his partner in there until they expire or they start eating and acting like fish.

 

[aresgod]

maybe he is just hosting in it...I have seen stranger things with clowns.

 

[Lorna]

Well he didn't make it. I think he was stressed from being chased by the chromis. The other is busy now trying to host or is he hiding in the frogspawn. I plan on removing him back to qt until he starts eating. I will tempt him with some mysis, if he doesn't take it to the qt he goes. I will probably get another but much larger to hopefully mate up with him. Can you put an ocellaris with a percula???????

 

[wayne]

No.
Also if you try to put a far larger one in you gamble with having 2 females, which soon result in another dead clown. Get a very small one and grow them together

 

[PuNanny]

Is it best to buy clowns in pairs or single?

 

[wayne]

They're much more interesting in pairs. And generally the larger ones (clarks, tomatoes , maroons ) are somewhat more interesting than the smaller