i think my clown has lost it

[left4fish]

I was watching my tank because, well, it's fun lol. And my maroon clown has officially lost it. He's swimming the length of the tank back in forth in a rollercoaster type fashion. For all you mathletes out there he's pretty much doing a normal bell curve >< He's done it at least 5 times and it's tiring me out just watching him go. Oh goodness.. I turned around and now he has the occie doing it with him. Lol after one back and forth the occie is over it.
 
My real question is: As cute and weird as this is, is this a sign of stress? Cuz I know pacing with animals in zoos is stress related so does that hold true for fish? Or is this just typical weird clown behavior? Oh and this is the first time I've ever seen this happen.

 

[flower]

 
Mine (Percula clowns) just hang out in the corner of the tank, very quiet and docile all the time.

 

[left4fish]

Yeah. That's what they've been doing. The occie is back to that but the maroon is still going at it. Kinda worried about it

 

[flower]

 
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Originally Posted by left4fish http:///forum/thread/379845/i-think-my-clown-has-lost-it#post_3303091
Yeah. That's what they've been doing. The occie is back to that but the maroon is still going at it. Kinda worried about it

 
Are they fighting? Does he act afraid? Maybe check for stray elec current, I had some freshwater fish once act all nervous and it was stray current. (affected ALL the fish in the tank)
 
I'm just tossing out ideas so don't get worried because of something I may have said, you may just have an active fish, or maybe he is caught from the ocean and isn't used to a glass wall in his way.

 

[left4fish]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/379845/i-think-my-clown-has-lost-it#post_3303099

 
Are they fighting? Does he act afraid? Maybe check for stray elec current, I had some freshwater fish once act all nervous and it was stray current. (affected ALL the fish in the tank)
 
I'm just tossing out ideas so don't get worried because of something I may have said, you may just have an active fish, or maybe he is caught from the ocean and isn't used to a glass wall in his way.

 
They're not fighting. The other fish aren't acting weird. I did notice that this morning the purple pseudo aka the bully had dug himself a hole under the rock and has pretty much left the cardinal alone all day which is new. There was never biting, just charges randomly. It's def just him by himself. Being strange. He was born in the tank or so says the LFS I got him at but lol it's possibly they could have lied? Dunno why they would, but I got both clowns together. He's still doing it. I don't even know where he's getting the energy ><
 

 

[abfish]

is he riding the current of the tank? I've seen fish do it before clowns in particular they like current he might just be amusing himself? I don't know how your flow is set up so this could be the silliest answer alive but its all I got

 

[dmanatee]

I dont know about your clown but my little ocellaris clown rides the current in my tank from time to time. Sometimes I swear he is swimming into the current like a person walks on a tread mill.

Somewhere I even have footage of the thing swiming into the current being pushed across the tank and then swimming down and back to the other side to do it again. They are silly and apparently self entertaining little guys.
I dont think your clown is stressed, like it was said previously by abfish, I think he is just keeping busy. thats just my opinion though.

 

[abfish]

well said I had some clowns that would catch the current swim back down and catch the current over and over they even got some of the other fish in the tank riding it from time to time