HELP!! Sick fish!!!!!

motorcity

Member
I think one of my Clowns is getting sick. He isnt acting normal, swimming real slow in the corner and then every once in a while looks like he is having a seizure. He quits swimming starts twitching really bad for a few seconds. Any ideas what is wrong with him? What can I do? I probably cant get a quarenteen tank set up until tomorrow!!!
My water parameters are
1.026
temp 80.8
Amonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates ~15
Earlier today my goby got out of main tank and into the filter area in the back. While trying to fish him out of there, we stirred up a bunch of stuff from the bottom of the filter area that got into the main tank and I think thats why the nitrates are so high.
I have a 29 gallon biocube, about 28 pounds live rock, 2 inches lives sand (sugar sized)
Tanks has been up since July 24th
I have 2 clowns, 1 watchman Goby, 1 pistol shrimp, about 6 blue leg hermits, 1 scarlet leg hermit, 1 green emerald, 6 astrea snails, 5 nassarius snails, and abourt 6 maragarita snails. The clowns and boby are pretty young and pretty small still. Everything else seems to be behaving normal.
I'm going to do a 10 gallon water change probably tomorrow.
Should mention, all the fish ate normally a few hours ago and seemed fine then.
Any advice on what I can do tonight? Any ideas what it could be?
 

motorcity

Member
Never mind. It appears that this behavior is a part of the Clowns mating ritual. Sure gave me a scare until I figured out what it was!!
 
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