Hi all,
I didn’t want my first post on here to be this, but my female clownfish is behaving very strangely. The tank is a fairly new 75 gallon saltwater tank that just finished its cycle 2 weeks ago, the first fish we put in was a bonded pair of common clownfish in. The female is now swimming with her head at the bottom and grabbing at the gravel and it looks like when she stops swimming she seems to start to float upwards, she’s been doing this for about 24 hours now.
tank readings
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Phosphate: 0
PH: 8.2
Calcium: 460
Dkh: 12
Everything else in the tank seems to be doing fine. I’m going to attach some pictures and a video as well to help.
We don’t want to lose our first friend in the tank, what can we do? Is this possibly just weird clown behavior or some type of mating thing? Or something worse?
I didn’t want my first post on here to be this, but my female clownfish is behaving very strangely. The tank is a fairly new 75 gallon saltwater tank that just finished its cycle 2 weeks ago, the first fish we put in was a bonded pair of common clownfish in. The female is now swimming with her head at the bottom and grabbing at the gravel and it looks like when she stops swimming she seems to start to float upwards, she’s been doing this for about 24 hours now.
tank readings
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0-5ppm
Phosphate: 0
PH: 8.2
Calcium: 460
Dkh: 12
Everything else in the tank seems to be doing fine. I’m going to attach some pictures and a video as well to help.
We don’t want to lose our first friend in the tank, what can we do? Is this possibly just weird clown behavior or some type of mating thing? Or something worse?