What Happened to the Percula Clown?

[sophos9]

Hi,

I added a Mandarin, Torch Coral and Sailfin Tang yesterday, all acclimatised well and looking healthy. Last night after lights off, the missus calls me over as one of the Percula clowns is laid out against the side of the tank, I was a bit worried as it looked 'paralysed' down one side - seriously only half its body was working. So we watched, nothing we could do, all fish healthy, parameters near perfect so we could only cross our fingers

The poor clown stayed on the substrate - did not move for a while. It then started moving its right fin and started swimming in circles.... A couple of minutes later, it moved its left side and swam off like a rocket and since then has been fine?

My guess, it got stung by the new Torch Coral - what do you think?

 

[PasadenaReefer]

weird... your probably right about the torch coral, but dont clowns have a simbiotic relationship with "stinger corals" anemones like that? Or can anemones/corals still sting them? Cause ive seen clowns host torch coral hammer coral GSP stuff like that...

 

[sophos9]

Hmm... I have read that Clowns sometimes have to get stung several times to build us resistance.

Both clowns are doing great today!

 

[bmac]

my clowns "sleep" like that. When the lights are out they are along the side of the dank, at first glance it appears as tho they are dead. Shortly after the lights come on thew slowly start to move and in minutes are swimming normally.

 

[sophos9]

Hi mate, thanks for your reply. The clowns do sleep funny but this was something absolutely different to their normal sleeping pattern. This clown really had something up with it.

Will keep an eye on it and see how it behaves...