sleeping habits of clowns

[RHAPALA]

hey everyone after 13 days of my gal tank running with nothing but lr i decided to buy my daughter her clown and wouldent ya know she named it nemo just like a 5 year old to do anyways it was swimming in the tank all happy go lucky welll i decided it was lights out and left it be for a bout 3 hrs i wanted to check on it before i went too bed let me tell ya what i was scared to death to see it laying on its side on top on my magnet cleaner near the top of the tank. my question is is that normal? what i did next was turn the light on a few secs to really get a look at him he started to move a lil but not much he mostly swam to the cornor of the tank and hovered at the top .....now i know i'm in the new phaze of what most call the kill everything till ya learn but i thought i really had a grip on it we had the water tested 4 times befor i got this costly lil fish btw its only a baby clown too about the size of a penny any help on the matter would be great

thanks

[lReef lKeeper]

a lot of clownfish do hover near the top of the tank and sleep somewhere that it safe. what i noticed about the post was this ... "after 13 days of my gal tank running with nothing but lr i decided to buy my daughter her clown".

is your cycle done ?? i have never had a tank cycle completely in under 3 weeks. i am not saying it cant or didnt, but it NEVER has for me.

[jojo22]

I would buy a test kit and make sure you keep your paramiters in check. Also see if the fish store has BIO-SPIRA. I know some people here don't agree with the bacteria in a bottle methods as most of them are junk but I used it in my 35 hex and put a damsel in as a test (2 hours after first bringing the tank home). I used all new sand and water with a couple of LR's from another tank and after a few days put in my clown, blue tang, lmb, cleaner shrimp and a golden headed sleeper goby. ALL IS WELL. This suff worked for me and if I where you I would get some to help complete your cycle.

[RHAPALA]

well the good news is nemo isent a floater.... also my lr is growing well with lil red spuds on them as well as orange ,green, and seems some purpleand as far as the cycle i belive it is done and i should have stated that i have had 2 mollies living in the tank since day one i'm sorry that part last night sliped my mind becase i was worried about my daughters fish..... wasent sure how to explain that her fish had died... but sofar i dont havbe to do that :P and as far as the test goes i have one now and also took 3 samples to 3 diff fish stores just to me on the extra safe side they all agreed that i could start adding fish at any time that my ammonia was at 0 and i cant recall if it was either both nitrite and nitrate lvl's were at 0 as well only thing they sugested is that i do a 5 gal water change before dripping the fish. i did that. then driped the fish for like 2 hrs .....dripping is the term they used at the fish store settine a slow drip to the fish bag so that the fish got used to the water change very slowly my drip rate was about 15 drops every 2 mins or so. i just hope there are no problems for the lil guy becase my daughter woke up for school this morning came out to see her fish told it to be good and i'll see you when i get home this afternoon.......well now she wants dori and a daddy clown this kid is gonna break me sonner or later hehehe

[perpetual98]

FYI: A fish store will tell you anything to get you to spend money there, even if it's incorrect or a danger to critters.

[jojo22]

Yeah you think that's bad my wife is in school to work with special needs children. So as you all can guess my fish also got named nemo and dory. *bang his head against the desk while screaming WHY PLEASE SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY*

[lReef lKeeper]

you think nemo set you back, wait til you see the price tag on a pacific blue tang !!

be extremely careful when you end up buying it, they are ICH MAGNETS. you will definately need to QT that fish, and have ICH meds ready to go.

[RHAPALA]

well remember i'm new to this yet $25.00 is alot for a fish i was only ever used to paying around 10.00 and less up untill now hehe.
and as far as a fish store telling ya anything just to make a sale yeah some places that may be true but i have built up a repore with 2 of my lfs's anuff that at one of them i get things at cost. and the other only sells me what is needed not all the over the hill extras.


also there is a term i havent yet learned well there are many terms hehe but what is Qt?

[lReef lKeeper]

QT = quarantine tank, sorry bout that

[RHAPALA]

no biggy bud i'm a work in progress here hehe.....................also everyone i'll get this out of the way now i work tonight so the capps will be on sorry in advance