Gladiator clownfish rapid/ quick breathing

[DaddyFish]

And yes my tank is actually cycling I’m just about done with the ammonia today it read about 2.25ppm on an api test kit

Did you mean 0.25 or really mean 2.25? Because 2.25 is lethal.

 

[DaddyFish]

It will take 4-7 days for ammonia to start cycling through to Nitrite. If you are not dosing with a good starter bacteria each day, I would recommend it. But only I'm a seasoned newbie myself!

 

[maxone]

I meant 0.25 gallons ppm for ammonia

 

[maxone]

Sorry I meant 0.25 ppm
For ammonia

 

[cmoore806]

Well then why is it only happening to my clownfish and not my other fish and not to mention but my mandarin was acting the same in the bucket until a day after I added him to the tank

I have no idea why one behaves differently than the other. I can say for certain that if your tank isn't cycled that they will eventually all behave the same way: Dead.

 

[Uncle99]

yes it is a new tank about 3 days old

3 days?
No tank can cycle in 3 days.
Iam sure you mean 3 weeks, if not, well, sorry, good luck with that.
The Pics are blue, you need always to take pics in white, otherwise we see nothing.

 

[maxone]

3 days?
No tank can cycle in 3 days.
Iam sure you mean 3 weeks, if not, well, sorry, good luck with that.
The Pics are blue, you need always to take pics in white, otherwise we see nothing.

I meant three days

 

[maxone]

Is that better

 

[Sebastiancrab]

Sounds like a lot of work! Not to be a downer but I’ve had a pair of clowns that looked completely healthy one day, the next day, one of them quickly got sick and died, then a couple days later the second one died for no apparent reason. My guess is that it died of depression for loosing the mate... It would even try to push the other clown to move when he was dead. So sad.

For you this may be the overdosing doing damage but I am a witness of serious clown depression..

Thank you for posting this. After reading this, I am glad I bought two clownfish instead of one this week.

 

[Fishbird]

Velvet doesn’t always show on a fish’s body before it kills. It can attack the gills. I would read up on velvet and brooklynella in the disease forum. Can you put the gladiator into a quarantine tank so you can begin treatment right away if needed? Velvet kills rapidly.

Also, it’s not totally clear since you say you have a sixline wrasse and that you will not be getting the sixline until July, but if you have either the mandarin or the sixline I would read up on how to make a hob fuge. Even biota and ORA say that their mandarins do best in a 50+ gallon tank with an established pod population. If your mandarin accepts prepared foods then you have a little wiggle room but captive bred mandarins still have a digestive tract that means they need to be almost constantly eating. Many wrasse species also eat pods and would easily out compete the mandarin especially in a tank as small as yours, so I would check on the compatibility of your fish as well.

 

[Uncle99]

I meant three days

How did you fully cycle in 3 days?