Normal Clownfish Behavior During Quarantine??

[ChelseaBidwell]

Is this normal behavior? One stays at an angle towards his left side, and the other just constantly bobs up and down. We've done a 3 min freshwater dip, and are currently 3 hours into the copper med process in the QT. We haven't tried feeding them yet. Should I be worried? We've never had clownfish before and I just want some piece of mind since they're our very first set of fish! Thank you for any input! Water specs below!

Temp: 78.3°F
SG: 1.019 (what it was at our LFS)
pH: 8.2
Ammonia: .10 PPM
Nitrite: 0 PPM
Nitrate: 5.0 PPM
Copp: .25 PPM (Dosage on Med Label for 1st day)

 

[jurgenph]

Clownfish are total clowns... Abnormal is their normal.
Unless they look stressed or aggressive, don't worry about it.

J.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Agreed. If they look wonky, come back in 15 min, they’ll be doing something else off the wall. Lol. Lots of personality and odd behaviors to match.

 

[ChelseaBidwell]

Ok good! I was a little worried! Thanks guys!

 

[AiKkz]

The bobbing up and down sound like typical clown behavior! Like everyone else said they are odd acting fish. Try feeding!

 

[AiKkz]

You using copper power or cupramine?

 

[Cell]

Copper is very toxic to fish and should be ramped up slowly over the course of several days. If your fish went straight into .25 after a fw dip you at minimum stressed them greatly.