Help urgent clown fish

[lokii_37]

I've had my tank set up about 2 years now. It's a 90 gallon mixed reef. 10% weekly WC. Health thriving tank.

I've had my clown fish probably close to a year now. She eats swims runs the tank. Normal clown fish stuff. When I got home from work today I fed a little formula 1 flakes, everybody ate in clouding the clown.

I am getting the food ready for the night time feeding. It is a mix of blended fresh seafood. I keep it in the freezer and break off pieces to thaw and feed. The food is thawed in tank water with 5 drops of kent garlic. I have been feeding this mix a few times a week for over a month.

Here is where the clown goes crazy. I am using a Turkey baster guide the food towards some of the LPS and the anemone. I look over and see the clown just drifting down to the bottom. Like she is dead. I reach in to try and scoop her out and she swims off like mad but upside down looking very disoriented and very erratically.

I reach in and grab her to see if maybe she is choking or anything. She did the typical fish out of water freak out.

I don't want her to suffer but I want to try what I can to help. Any ideas?

 

[lokii_37]

Bad swim bladder?

My LPS are trying to eat her if she ends up landing on them.

 

[D-Nak]

Could she have eaten too much? I have baby clowns and I've overfed them a few times -- their stomachs get stretched like a balloon and they lose the ability to swim. Some just end up floating on the surface. Once the food is digested, they're back to normal.

If not overfed it could be that she was stung by an LPS and became disoriented. Depending on how badly she was stung will determine what happens next.

 

[lokii_37]

She might have eaten to much. I guess only time will tell on that one.

She might have been stung a well. I guess time will tell on that one too.


Thanks.

 

[UMass14]

Keep us posted.

 

[lokii_37]

Time said what ever it was it was fatal. She was laying on the sand this morning.

She was really slimy when I got her out. I don't know if that means any thing.

I always look for the silver lining and here it is. She was a real B. My wrasse has been living in my overflow for about 9 months because she would chase him in there.

 

[Nevil]

Sorry for your loss.