Howdy
I have a nanocube, it's been up a few months, all going great. I have lots of live rock, my tank cycled, and my levels have been great for months. I check ammonia (0), nitrite(0), nitrate(0), ph(8.2), salinity(24), calcium(400) etc.
One month ago, I added a royal gramma, he is awesome and doing fine, great color, eating well. I also have a few soft corals...a couple hairy mushrooms, a xenia, some daisys and recently a saebe anemone.
2 weeks ago, I bought a couple of ocellaris clowns, little guys. They looked great in the store, but once they were home in the tank they got weird. Swimming fast, neurotically in one spot, never resting. No actual skin diseases or discoloration- just very stressed out looking fish who swam neurotically. One of them hosted with the anemone after 4 days and seemed calmer, but after a week neither had eaten anything and both died. I assumed I stressed them out when I put them in and I was really bummed.
Then, 4 days ago, I decided to try again - this time, from a different pet shop, I got one black clown. I tried hard to acclimate him correctly, I dripped a line into him from my tank for an hour, made sure temps and salinity balanced, he never got below 77 degrees.
Now, it has been 3 days. Good news is, that he is eating, both mysis shrimp and pellets....But he is acting extremely neurotic! He only swims really fast against the front of the tank, like he is in pain and trying to escape or something. Just crazy up and down the corner of the tank, literally never stopping, zooming from one corner to the other.
Is this neurotic, constant, hyper swimming normal for a new clown? How do I calm him down? I have tried covering the tank with a blanket and keeping the lights off for a whole day, and nothing works.
I really want him to make it! Please help.
Thanks.
-Michael
I have a nanocube, it's been up a few months, all going great. I have lots of live rock, my tank cycled, and my levels have been great for months. I check ammonia (0), nitrite(0), nitrate(0), ph(8.2), salinity(24), calcium(400) etc.
One month ago, I added a royal gramma, he is awesome and doing fine, great color, eating well. I also have a few soft corals...a couple hairy mushrooms, a xenia, some daisys and recently a saebe anemone.
2 weeks ago, I bought a couple of ocellaris clowns, little guys. They looked great in the store, but once they were home in the tank they got weird. Swimming fast, neurotically in one spot, never resting. No actual skin diseases or discoloration- just very stressed out looking fish who swam neurotically. One of them hosted with the anemone after 4 days and seemed calmer, but after a week neither had eaten anything and both died. I assumed I stressed them out when I put them in and I was really bummed.
Then, 4 days ago, I decided to try again - this time, from a different pet shop, I got one black clown. I tried hard to acclimate him correctly, I dripped a line into him from my tank for an hour, made sure temps and salinity balanced, he never got below 77 degrees.
Now, it has been 3 days. Good news is, that he is eating, both mysis shrimp and pellets....But he is acting extremely neurotic! He only swims really fast against the front of the tank, like he is in pain and trying to escape or something. Just crazy up and down the corner of the tank, literally never stopping, zooming from one corner to the other.
Is this neurotic, constant, hyper swimming normal for a new clown? How do I calm him down? I have tried covering the tank with a blanket and keeping the lights off for a whole day, and nothing works.
I really want him to make it! Please help.
Thanks.
-Michael
