Clownfish can't keep her depth

[Drifter9]

Just now, when my lights turned off and the lunars turned on I noticed my gold stripe clownfish is having trouble keeping away from the surface. She constantly has to keep swimming down. I turned down my pump a bit but shes still having trouble and none of the other fish are having any issues. She was fine when I came home from work. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

 

[Moonstream]

well, I have seen this many times in my FW bettas. it sound a lot like SBD or swim bladder disease. I dont know if it is, but for my bettas I would starve for 1 day to a week and they were fine. did you happen to feed an overly large amount recently? I dont know if it is even possible for clowns to get SBD. hope this helps.

 

[guido_kp]

do you feed floating pellets?

 

[Drifter9]

I normally feed a mix of pellets and frozen foods. Yesterday I fed them pellets and mysis shrimp.

 

[BristlewormKing]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10323260#post10323260 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Moonstream
well, I have seen this many times in my FW bettas. it sound a lot like SBD or swim bladder disease. I dont know if it is, but for my bettas I would starve for 1 day to a week and they were fine. did you happen to feed an overly large amount recently? I dont know if it is even possible for clowns to get SBD. hope this helps.

Yes, clowns can definitely get SBD!

 

[BristlewormKing]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10323260#post10323260 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Moonstream
well, I have seen this many times in my FW bettas. it sound a lot like SBD or swim bladder disease. I dont know if it is, but for my bettas I would starve for 1 day to a week and they were fine. did you happen to feed an overly large amount recently? I dont know if it is even possible for clowns to get SBD. hope this helps.

Yes, clowns can definitely get SBD!

 

[guido_kp]

maybe a long shot, but hold off the pellets for a few days. in the wilkerson clownfish book, she mentions clowns being unable to "sink" d/t overeating of floating pelltets. good luck with it.

 

[ArgonDreams]

I read this in the Drs. Foster and Smith forum the other day, feed her a par boiled pea, it should fix it.

 

[timrandlerv10]

par boiled pea?!

 

[Drifter9]

This morning everything was AOK. I have no idea what happened but for a couple days she could have used a ballast full of rocks to keep her down. Now everything is fine and she is chasing my wrasse around the tank like normal.

 

[Slakker]

Could it be that she had a belly full of air from eating pellets or flakes off of the surface?