Female clown not looking good

HotSpringsReefer · Oct 25, 2019

I have a pair of snowflake clowns. They've been in the tank for three weeks. BTA's hosted them on the first day and they are almost always in a nem.

My male seems active and fine but the female has just more or less been lying in the nems for two days. She moves around from nem to nem occasionally and everytime the powerheads swap directions but other than that isn't very active.

She seems to be breathing normal as far as I can tell. I don't see any visible signs of disease but I am new to this.

Temp - 79°
Ph - 8.4
Nitrate - 0
Phosphate - 0
Ammonia - More than 0 but less than 0.25
API test kit

HotSpringsReefer · Oct 25, 2019

Also, salinity is .024

MERKEY · Oct 25, 2019

Maybe she just likes to be less active. My female is always up in the corner where she sleeps more often than my Male....unless there is any sign of stress from ammonia I wouldnt worry about it.

HotSpringsReefer · Oct 26, 2019

MERKEY said:
Maybe she just likes to be less active. My female is always up in the corner where she sleeps more often than my Male....unless there is any sign of stress from ammonia I wouldnt worry about it.

Cool, thanks. That's what I'm hoping. I'm brand new to the hobby though and figure someone here may see or know something that I'm not picking up on.

Stege_saurus · Oct 26, 2019

HotSpringsReefer said:
Cool, thanks. That's what I'm hoping. I'm brand new to the hobby though and figure someone here may see or know something that I'm not picking up on.

They look good from the pics. Clownfish are a funny kind of fish, sometimes they can be really active and others not so much. Both of mine do things similar to this, they lay around in their nem until feeding time and then they're as active as can be. I wouldn't worry too much unless they start to swim weird or show signs of stress and disease.

HotSpringsReefer · Oct 26, 2019

Stege_saurus said:
They look good from the pics. Clownfish are a funny kind of fish, sometimes they can be really active and others not so much. Both of mine do things similar to this, they lay around in their nem until feeding time and then they're as active as can be. I wouldn't worry too much unless they start to swim weird or show signs of stress and disease.

Thank you. I really appreciate everyone's input!