CLOWNFISH NOT EATING / BREATHING HEAVY

[R33F3RMAN]

I have two black ice o clownfish that I have had in the tank for around 2 months now. a couple of days ago I noticed that my male clown was breathing heavy. Now the male is not eating at all. My tank is 75 litres (20 us gallons)

water quality

salinity: 1.025
ph: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 4
phosphate 0.03
kh: 8.4

it is a mixed reef tank

what can I do!!

 

[Peace River]

I'm sorry to hear about your fish. Has the female been showing any additional aggression lately (chasing, nipping, etc.)? Is it possible that he is stressed out from the aggression? Are there any physical signs of illness or aggression?

 

[DaneGer21]

Any other tank mates?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I have two black ice o clownfish that I have had in the tank for around 2 months now. a couple of days ago I noticed that my male clown was breathing heavy. Now the male is not eating at all. My tank is 75 litres (20 us gallons)

water quality

salinity: 1.025
ph: 8.1
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 4
phosphate 0.03
kh: 8.4

it is a mixed reef tank

what can I do!!

Sorry, I just responded to your other post in the different section. Please take a look at that, but then come back to this thread to discuss.
Thanks,
Jay

 

[R33F3RMAN]

Any other tank mates?

Just 1 purple dart fish and the other clown

 

[R33F3RMAN]

I'm sorry to hear about your fish. Has the female been showing any additional aggression lately (chasing, nipping, etc.)? Is it possible that he is stressed out from the aggression? Are there any physical signs of illness or aggression?

No agressive behavior from the female can’t see any physical signs of illness, I’ll post a video.

 

[R33F3RMAN]

I’ll try to get a video of him

 

[vetteguy53081]

what is age of tank?
Looking at your parameters, are you by chance using API test kits? Assuming tank is newer, all zero reading seem unusual.
Jay is on this, and do read his input.

 

[Peace River]

No agressive behavior from the female can’t see any physical signs of illness, I’ll post a video.

Ok, I have seen similar behavior from bullied fish. I encourage you to follow the recommendation from @Jay Hemdal and provide the feedback that he requested above. He is an expert's expert and his feedback will be far better than mine (or virtually anyone else).

 

[R33F3RMAN]

Here is a video I couldn’t get it to swim out any further

 

[R33F3RMAN]

what is age of tank?
Looking at your parameters, are you by chance using API test kits? Assuming tank is newer, all zero reading seem unusual.
Jay is on this, and do read his input.

tank is about 4 - 5 months old now, I use Red Sea test kits and also went down to my lfs to get it tested both reading were the same

 

[R33F3RMAN]

Here are some photos cos I don’t think the video worked.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Here is a video I couldn’t get it to swim out any further

Is that video real time or is it slowed down? The fish seems to be breathing deeply, but not very fast. Do you have a treatment tank you can move it to? Any treatment you can do hinges on being able to move it.

Jay

 

[R33F3RMAN]

Is that video real time or is it slowed down? The fish seems to be breathing deeply, but not very fast. Do you have a treatment tank you can move it to? Any treatment you can do hinges on being able to move it.

Jay

No I don’t have a treatment tank but my lfs quarantines every fish for at least two weeks so I thought it would be fine