Is she okay?

[Aliie]

I put my clown in my Nano today so that I could redo her tank. I left the light off like I was told to but she is still laying on the bottom. Is this normal behavior?

 

[Kmiec123]

How is she doing? Was the SG vastly differance?

 

[elegance coral]

They normally don't swim around much when the lights are off. I wouldn't worry unless she stayed that way when the lights came back on.

 

[jeeperrs]

Before mine hosted the anemone it would sleep on the sand in a corner of my tank. This is pretty normal behavior

 

[Aliie]

Well On saturday she pretty much had dug herself a hole over by the heater (biggest part of the tank) and is up out of the corner slightly. Not being her usually wild self but seems to be doing somewhat better. I am waiting for her tank to get back to temp so I can reload the LR and her.

The salinity level was vastly different. It took me almost 2 hours to drip acclimate her because of it. She went from way to high to the proper level.

I'm hoping that when she gets back to her tank she'll feel more rowdey, never thought I'd say that.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10685339#post10685339 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aliie
Well On saturday she pretty much had dug herself a hole over by the heater (biggest part of the tank) and is up out of the corner slightly. Not being her usually wild self but seems to be doing somewhat better. I am waiting for her tank to get back to temp so I can reload the LR and her.

The salinity level was vastly different. It took me almost 2 hours to drip acclimate her because of it. She went from way to high to the proper level.

I'm hoping that when she gets back to her tank she'll feel more rowdey, never thought I'd say that.

I guess you could call it normal "stressed behavior." Anytime you take a fish out of its previous enviroment and place it in something different (different temp. or salinity) it is going to react in a conservative manner.

 

[Aliie]

Well I've been keeping the lights off excpet for a few hours when I'm home to watch her. The goby seems fine but he likes his coffee with splenda and coffeemate.

She is eating so I think that is a good sign.

What is your (anyone) opinion on me moving her back?

Do it ASAP?

Give it a few extra days so that it's not back to back moves 3 days apart?

Try to wait at least a week before I stress her again?

 

[Haddonisreef]

Be sure to acclimate properly and all should be fine!

 

[Aliie]

So any time is good then? I just wasn't sure if I should give her a break inbetween the moves or not.

 

[dc]

Personally I'd make the water the same and just move her over. Take a little from the nano, put it in the regular one, and vise versa till they were both the same. Wouldn't take much for the nano.

 

[Aliie]

That sounds like a good idea, didn't think of that. As soon as the tank is ready I'll move her. I'm hoping it will be tomorrow at the latest.