Clowns in danger?

KristaJ7267

KristaJ7267

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I have 2 juvenile occelaris. I am also new to this. Tank is a 30gallon bowfront. They had been "hosting" my filter lately, however I came downstairs last night in the middle of the night and noticed that one of my clowns had fallen asleep and floated down to the bottom of the tank. I also have a coral banded shrimp who was looking awful suspicious....like he was sneaking up on him. Will he eat him? The ocellaris is maybe and inch and a half, same as shrimp (minus the tentacles of course). I shooed him away last night but of course I don't want to stay up all night doing this. Should I remove the coral banded? I am probably answering my own question here, but just looking for insight or suggestions. The shrimp seems to be eating enough...always scavenging I also feed the tank Mysis shrimp (as well as pellets, flake food and seaweed for my dwarf angel).

I don't want to wake up one day with a missing clownfish :(
 
We need to find out one thing. Is the clownfish breathing? If not, most likely he's already dead and the CB is doing what he is... a scavenger.
 
I forgot to mention one thing. The clown is doing fine now. He woke up yesterday (as he did today), pretty sure he is not sick and was just sleeping (they are funny little guys when sleeping...both of them are "groggy" when first awake too lol). I am concerned that the CBS will try and eat him while he is sleeping. I am thinking I may bring the CBS back to LFS and possibly get a harlequin shrimp. Its a FOWLR tank.
 
glad the clowns are doing better. I would still keep an eye on them, I have never seen a healthy clown fall to the sand and sleep, they are always moving (wiggling) around in my tank.
 
He was still swimming and wiggling, just slowly, almost like he was groggy...sometimes he sleeps vertically too. First time I saw that I thought he was dead...They host behind my filter so I thought he had gotten stuck there when floating up. I grabbed the net to get him and he shot out from behind it. Must have startled him lol
 
I had two clown fish in a tank with a blue damsel. The Damsel wouldn't let them near any rocks, so they would go to the very top of the tank in a corner to sleep. Every once in a while one of them would float around, go down the overflow and end up in the sump. lol

I gave the damsel away after one of my clowns jumped out the tank :(. The other one lives happy now though, will be getting him a new friend soon, after I move.
 
Well I got up this morning and noticed that the same clown has come down with Ich....and fast. I went to bed at midnight and when I looked at him this morning at about 5:30am he had the tell tale salt like white spots. My angel fish also has it but not the 2nd clown. Have already started treatment (Herbtana and garlic oil). Will do copper if this doesn't work. :(
 
you may as well get the copper ready now to treat "ALL" the fish in the tank, the garlic and such will not cure it. sorry for the news of ich though, better to cure it now than later and treat all new fish comming in.
 
Actually (and I just posed this in the disease treatment forum). I am going to try hyposalinity, once I catch my Coral Banded Shrimp and snails to remove them).
 
KristaJ7267 said:
Actually (and I just posed this in the disease treatment forum). I am going to try hyposalinity, once I catch my Coral Banded Shrimp and snails to remove them).
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You need to remove the fish not the inverts. Even Hypo shouldnt take place in the display tank. It will kill all the micro fauna, pods, missed snails, mini stars, etc. And can damage your biological filter.

Also having used hypo successfully I will tell you the specific gravity MUST be maintained at 1.08-1.09. You must have a perfectly calibrated refractometer and you must top off a few times a day so evap doesn't cause sg to rise. Your tank needs to be fishless for 10 weeks.
 
KristaJ7267 said:
He was still swimming and wiggling, just slowly, almost like he was groggy...sometimes he sleeps vertically too. First time I saw that I thought he was dead...They host behind my filter so I thought he had gotten stuck there when floating up. I grabbed the net to get him and he shot out from behind it. Must have startled him lol
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Good luck with treatment my clowns actually sleep in the sand at night... and day time super active... Just FYI
 
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