clown and tang fish

[shibumi]

I have a clown fish and a blue tang. They are very small I put them in my tank like ... almost 2 weeks ago.

I have a Xenia, toadstool, red and green mushrooms, gorgonian, torch, combination of green and orange zoos and a start polyp.
A skunk, a cucumber, a emerald crab, 5 snails and some little crabs.

Now my issue .. my clown (krusty) and my tang (chino) are always in the top left corner. They don’t swim around. They kind of almost eat from my finger because I cant just drop the food in the tank (they wont go after it) I have to put the food really close to them.

What is going on? Why my fish don’t swim around?

 

[dmbedard]

My 2 cents... Check your water parameters first.

 

[Bebo77]

how big is your tank?

 

[shibumi]

My tank is 36g .. already test the water- ok, temperature ok.

I have:
- 2 aquaclear 50,
- 2 power head maxi jet,
- and a remora skimer with a maxi jet power head.

They play with each other and at night the clown stays in that corner and the tang goes to the button right corner.

Any idea ........?

 

[h2joe]

There broken... give them to me. haha but seriously i think they may still be getting adjusted to your tank. give them some time mabey they will come around. the tang will most likly outgrow your tank fairly quickly so i hope you have another tank thats bigger or have a home already lined up for it. good luck

Mark

 

[W Ellis]

I agree if the water params are in order they may still be getting used to the new enviorment. My clown hung out behind my rock for quite some time. Tangs do need alot of swimming room and they tank may be a little crowded for him. Hopefully they will come around for you soon.

 

[alizarin]

I think common opinion is that 36g is <b>way way</b> too small for a tang. Liveaquaria.com suggests 70g minimum: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=330

 

[shibumi]

Even for a baby one? I mean they are really tinny. We are thinking about to get another tank so we though we can start with a little one, learn from it and then transfer everything to the big one.

Maybe the tank is to crowded for them .. maybe I have to take some live rock out ... I will wait a week and if I dont see any change I will take some rocks out.