Clownfish Breathing Heavy!!

[Dark_Knightt]

You may have seen some of my other threads where I say how my clownfish have started to host in the torch coral, and how theyre mouths are open and they arent eating, but they were breathing normally. I quarantined them from the coral last night just to let their wounds heal, which they did, but today they went back at it, and now my female is breathing heavily. Im not too sure what to do #reefsquad i moved the torch to the other side of the tank, and they havent gone after it because it is too far away from their lair. Female is breathing heavy and im afraid she might have stung her gills or something. Any other solutions?
Please help

 

[Rp8]

following, best of luck, i saw that post of them hosting the torch.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

following, best of luck, i saw that post of them hosting the torch.

thx, hopefully other people reply to the thread XD theyre breathing really heavy and im not too sure what to do rn. moved the torch, hopefully that will help.

 

[Rp8]

thx, hopefully other people reply to the thread XD theyre breathing really heavy and im not too sure what to do rn. moved the torch, hopefully that will help.

yea i thought it was cool them hosting it. i have a torch also and clowns

 

[Dkmoo]

what are your params? breathing heavily could be due amonia poisoning or some other kind of toxin? do you run carbon? is there any visible physical trauma that you can see? A clown that is otherwise healthy should not be afraid of torch stings since it can even naturally tolerate nems.

mine did that once after a heavy coral feeding night and i forgot to turn my sump return pump back on overnight so all that excess nutrient in my DT didn't run thru the sump/skimmer/fuge for the whole night and the next day the fishes really looked like they are struggling. after i turned everything back on and did a 30% WC they came back to normal after 12 hrs.

moving them back and forth between your DT and QT, and then evicting them from their newly hosted coral probably also added a lot of stress to the fish that exacerbated whatever was causing it to struggle.

unfortunately its hard to diagnose why a fish struggles b/c they can't show us where the discomfort is, esp if there's no physical signs. And usually by the time they "look sick" its already very serious. The best we can do now is trying to keep the water as clean, stable, and comfortable for it as we can, and leaving it alone hoping that it can overcome it itself.

 

[Reefahholic]

You may have seen some of my other threads where I say how my clownfish have started to host in the torch coral, and how theyre mouths are open and they arent eating, but they were breathing normally. I quarantined them from the coral last night just to let their wounds heal, which they did, but today they went back at it, and now my female is breathing heavily. Im not too sure what to do #reefsquad i moved the torch to the other side of the tank, and they havent gone after it because it is too far away from their lair. Female is breathing heavy and im afraid she might have stung her gills or something. Any other solutions?
Please help

I think they will be fine. I’ve seen clowns host in all kinds of LPS. If she’s breathing heavy, it’s possible it could be something else besides the coral. Let’s not jump to conclusions though. I’d give it a few days and see how she looks.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

Here are the params:
Temp: about 78F
pH: 8.3
Nirtate: seems to be about 10ppm
Nitrite: 0
PO4: about 0
Salinity: currently 1.027, will bring that down right now.
I dont have any Ca, Mg tests yet, will have to get some.
Actually now that you asked , @Dkmoo , I notice a sting mark right on the left gill of my female clown. How can I treat that wound?