baby clown question

[nickrosenthal]

My 4 week old onyx clowns have been recently hanging out at the waters surface and was wondering if this should be a concern? Temp is stable and salinity is at 1.026. Have been eating between rotifers and cyclopeze and recently just started feeding baby brine shrimp. Any ideas?

 

[Brando457]

Should be fine, is it swimming at the surface and eating?

Mine when I first got it would sleep in the top corner of my tank and lay there. A few times I thought I lost my fish or it was sick, now the little bugger swims all over.

Just monitor it and be patient, fish should be fine.

 

[MYDRAAL]

Do you have sufficient water movement?

 

[nickrosenthal]

Just 2 airstones in a 10 gallon tank. There about 20 total babies I am raising if that helps.

 

[gpsmart]

I wouldn't stress about it if they are just hanging around at the top and are still healthy. I have had a couple of batches of Ocellaris that have started swimming upside down at the surface but as soon as they go into a growout tank they orientate themselves correctly.

Just out of interest by 3 weeks old I have all my clowns onto flake food and into a 30G growout tank - much less work than a larval tank. Yours are old enough to be moved but don't net them at that age.

Graham