Damn, lost one of my clowns

[xhaust50]

I lost my first fish in almost two years when I first set up the tank. The original inhabitants were a pair of Perc clowns, one of which had a lucky fin just like Nemo. Anyway, the 45G housed the perc's, a yellow tail damsel and a pseudo. The bigger clown was the dominant one in the tank. Just two days ago I completely cleaned the tank, rearranged the rock, and added a 3" Green Spotted Puffer from my other tank. Everything seemed fine, but today I found the biggest clown in one of the powerheads. All my water parameters are perfect, and my GSP is far from aggressive. I wonder if it was stress related from the new environment and the new addition? When you find fish in a powerhead, were they usually dead before and drifted in or did they get sucked in?

Definitely a sad day for me. The other clown looks so lost in the tank as they were always together. Should I look to eventually add another one?

 

[MIKE NY]

usually when fish are found on a power they were dead already or in such a weakened stated they can't swim away from it. Anyway I had a pair of breeding percs for many years until one day there was some domestic violence and the smaller male killed the female....he has been a bachelor for a couple of years now.

 

[greggnyce]

Watch the puffer with the power head they get stuck easily.