Clownfish stays in the same spot - Sick?

sfaloha

New Member
My false percula1 is rather boring. I don't know if he's sick or what's wrong with him. When I first got him he moved around than ich came and I put him and 2 other fishes (smaller false perc and heniochus) in QT. They were in QT for 8 weeks and treated with hypo. In QT the false perc would just hide in the PVC pipe and come out to eat. The smaller false perc ended up dying.
Now back in the DT he just hovers by the rock and does nothing. Only comes out for food. I introduced a larger false percula and it seems I got lucky because they are both not females and I see the twitching stuff going on with the false percula1. The bigger false percula2 swims around a lot. False percula1 was swimming with 2 for awhile but ended up going back to rock. But they hang out together.
Something I do notice with false percula1 is that it sometimes swims low close to the sand and its doing a lil bit more paddling to stay up. The mouth opens and closes more but it doesn't looks like it's breathing rapidly and I don't see any frayed fins.
 

adams

Member
Not all the time, It may be hosting, but however mine did start staying in the same place and It sadly died this morning.. I'd get professional advice if you can?
 

nvmywrx

Member
any update? my fish seems to be doing the same thing only comes out for foot and swins low paddling in a rock cave.
 

tank a holic

Active Member
i got a tomato that goes through spells, for a while he'll swim a good bit then stay in the rocks

I also have a clarki that hosted my nem, he acts like he's laboring to swim but hardly goes anywhere and has wierd mouth movment
both of them have been doing it long enough I concider it to be normal behavior
if the clowns arent a mated pair they wont spend much time together
 
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