!HELP!!! IS MY CLOWN DYING!

[saltwater4life]

OK i noticed my clown swimming weird but now he is just sitting in the sand and will swim up to the top and drift back down that's wrong???? he was doing real good yesterday now he just acting weird help i don't wanna lose him..

i tested my stuff everything seems to be in the green but my ph is the only thing it's around 8.0 i think it was but i double that is why he'd be acting like this please anyone help...

 

[Joe Fish]

A ph of 8 should be completely fine. Have you added anything new recently? What are the rest of your water params like ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, alk.

 

[saltwater4life]

ammonia 0-0.25
nitrate 20
nitrite 0
alkalinity 300

i just looked at him again and he is on his side swimming so sad i know he is going to die i'm so sad...
and salt 1.023

 

[Joe Fish]

any visual signs of distress? hopefully your ammonia is 0.

 

[saltwater4life]

not that i can see and the rate thing is 0-0.25 i'm hoping 0

 

[Joe Fish]

anything added recently?

 

[saltwater4life]

He passed RIP little dude

and no just the new lighting which i cant see hurting it since my other fish are doing good

 

[Flowerkid]

sorry to hear that man i was hoping he was going to make it sorry

 

[aresgod]

new lighting can stress fish, especially if it is significantly brighter than the last set up...it is best to ween them onto it doing only a few hours a day and building up from there...not that this was the sole reason for his death, but lighting can have an affect.

 

[saltwater4life]

yea i kinda lowered my lighting from 12 hours of my old lighting to 6 hours yesterday and it was only 2 today when i seen him acting up and then i turned the lights off but i looked at him and he looks clean there really wasn't anything on him from what i seen but thx I'm still sad that he died but oh well it's the way of life i guess...

 

[Panther28]

Sorry about your loss. Poor nemo!! Exactly The way of LIFE.

 

[saltwater4life]

yea... thx... my other fish seem to be doing good the only thing i have seen is when the lights turn on they hide for a minute then go back to whatever they were doing. my yellow tail damselfish looks cool under the new lights i need to get some pic's or a video of my tank so you guys can see it

 

[Panther28]

Definetly post some pics. I really want to see how it turned out. WE WANT PICS! WE WANT PICS! WE WANT PICS! come on some pics would be awesome. Please.

 

[saltwater4life]

lol alright i'll try some short videos real quick so you can get an idea of it

 

[Panther28]

Great!!! Now I can't wait! I am so Impatient.

 

[saltwater4life]

Alright i made this quick video of my tank i wish i could of gotten some of my clown but oh well here you go i'll also post this in rate my tank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0A5Y-7B_E


EDIT it might not work i forgot they have to process it...

 

[Panther28]

ohh no.. Well tried it 3 times already but i guess not processed yet. I have waited for quit some time i can wait a little longer.

 

[Lorna]

You didn't have him very long did you? Where did you get him? There has been a few wild caught clowns that die from Brooklynella.....aka clown disease. This isn't usually that common among captive bred ..... look it up at wet webmedia and see if the symptoms are similar. You were having trouble getting him eating weren't you?

 

[saltwater4life]

yea i never really got him to eat even with mysis i'll check it out i bought him at a SW fish store Living in color i beleave i'll check because he wasn't shy like i thought he'd be i mean i was trying to hand feed him and he'd swim right up into my hand and i was petting him the one day he wasn't scard of me kinda weird but i did only have him for a week

BTW the video is working kinda chopy

 

[Panther28]

Is that a long 20 gallon. The rock work is awesome. I wish I could be so creative. My live rock is just lying around on the sand. Do you have an airstone running in it? If only the clip was clear enough. Your tank looks awesome. Not topped of though. Finally had a little preview of the tank.

edit: I can't see clearly but have you added other decorative items to the tank other then the live rock?If not then for 12 LBS you got a lot of rock. Which means I did not get the good porus live rock.