help...sickly fish

jaymumma

New member
So I purchased a clarkii clown from my LFS today and after the acclamation process he started swimming around witha clinched back fin and just using uppers to move himself around. Later he started swimming around using all his fins but only issolated himself to one corner. After coming home from work a few hours later, I noticed he was just kind of hanging out at the bottom of the tank and not swimming at all. No cloudy eyes or heavy breathing, just sitting there.
One other notable trait...when he would swim he would be bumping into everything. Almost if he was blind. You could put your hand close to glass, most fish would haul butt away from it but continued just to sit there. No eating.
Other fish..one damsel
tank 45 gl slant
water parimeters A-OK
temp 80
60 live rock with a couple mushroom corals
Skimmer and bio filter
Everything else in the tank doing very well
don't own a quarantine tank
Any suggestions of what it could be or what I should do?????
 
I got a new clown a couple weeks ago, they day after i bought him when the lights came on he was lying sideways on the sandbed, after awhile he was fine. Yesterday morning he decided he wanted to swim sideways, they can act funny or confused sometimes, my clown is perfectly healthy he just scares me sometimes from acting goofy.
 
Clowns are weird sometimes. They will also do their crazy jerking motion thing when they feel like getting their groove on.
 
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