CLOWNFISH BREATHING UPDATE

[olaywolay]

Made a post in the morning after i woke up to find my clowns with some rapid mouth movement, think it turned out that the oxygen within my tank was low so i added an airstone and pointed wavemaker even closer to surface how does it look now, before and after, thanks.
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[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Made a post in the morning after i woke up to find my clowns with some rapid mouth movement, think it turned out that the oxygen within my tank was low so i added an airstone and pointed wavemaker even closer to surface how does it look now, before and after, thanks.

Just checking the order of the videos. The first one …A331.mov is the “after” one right?

 

[olaywolay]

Made a post in the morning after i woke up to find my clowns with some rapid mouth movement, think it turned out that the oxygen within my tank was low so i added an airstone and pointed wavemaker even closer to surface how does it look now, before and after, thanks.

Just checking the order of the videos. The first one …A331.mov is the “after” one right?

sorry i cant quite see file names, one with airstone in is after

 

[dedragon]

just watch out for salt creep as the air bubbler will spray saltwater. in my glass lidded tank i use a bubblemagus miniq skimmer. it is mostly just to add oxygen to the water so i can just set the water level extremely low. it gets a very dry skim but u cud also unplug the collection cup stopper and the waste wud go right back into the aquarium if nutrients were getting too low. depends on tank size as well to see which model you might need but there are plenty of cheap skimmers out there now

 

[W31Olds]

The 331.mov is the after. He added an airstone yesterday because they looked really distressed. The question is why? Post a full shot of your tank and when did you get those guys and how did you acclimate them. In most cases, an airstone should not be necessary so you may not be out of the woods yet.