HELP! Clownfish Breathing Fast!

CrazyCoolFishGuy · Nov 2, 2023

Hi, hope your having a fantastic day! I just picked up 2 brand new Clownfish in my brand new tank. Just finished cycling everything, so these 2 are the newest additions. For some reason, one is breathing rapidly and has slowly gotten worse over the course of the week. I just check my levels and I believe everything looks good, salinity is perfect, so not sure what to do. He is getting a little bit skinny/wrinkly so I don't think he's eaten much. Hr is still active and will hang out at different part of the tank or go hang out with the other clownfish. I tried both frozen shrimp, pelletts, and even put a small veggie clip hoping they might pick on it. Please lmk if you have any advice

JayM · Nov 2, 2023

Your best bet will be to post your actual water parameters. “Everything looks perfect” won’t help us help you. Also pictures, and better yet, a short 15-20 second video (both under white lights) would be extremely helpful.

CrazyCoolFishGuy · Nov 2, 2023

JayM said:
Your best bet will be to post your actual water parameters. “Everything looks perfect” won’t help us help you. Also pictures, and better yet, a short 15-20 second video (both under white lights) would be extremely helpful.

Definitely, will do! My apologies, this is my fist time. Shared a video and my levels from the Zapi test kit

slingfox · Nov 3, 2023

Bumping so you can get some help. Please post photos of the fish under white light as well as video if possible. You likely want to invest in some test kits from Salifert (very reliable all around) and/or Hanna (great, easy to use test kits for alkalinity and phosphate ULR as well as copper which is needed for quarantine / hospital situations).