PLEASE LEND YOUR EXPERTISE, my clown is laying down and not moving

[devrichmond]

First time post here, just registered to ask this. My Clownfish pair have been doing great the last 2 months. I’m pretty sure my water salinity dipped dangerously low when I lost my electronic salinity test meter due to damage mid water change. I believe it is the female who won’t move off of their hosted live rock. Laying down like it was night time in the middle of the day.

Yesterday I busted out my back up fluval sea meter and it took a day to season, I got the ppt back to 33-35. Now she’s floating upright but still won’t move from the spot.
In the video she’s much more active. Think I solved the problem or last breaths before she dies? anybody else’s clowns lay down when the environment goes south? Or parasite?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can’t open video on my phone. Any still pics under white lighting?

mid fish breathing heavily?
Any hazy cloudy appearance to its body?

 

[devrichmond]

 

[devrichmond]

 

[Rtaylor]

Fish can survive in very low salinity (hypo) for a long time. Unless it was crazy low, like less than 14ppt, that likely isn’t the cause of any problems. Clownfish are weird, as long as she’s not in distress (gasping for air, unable to swim/stay upright, signs of parasites, etc.) I wouldn’t worry.

 

[devrichmond]

Fish can survive in very low salinity (hypo) for a long time. Unless it was crazy low, like less than 14ppt, that likely isn’t the cause of any problems. Clownfish are weird, as long as she’s not in distress (gasping for air, unable to swim/stay upright, signs of parasites, etc.) I wouldn’t worry.

He/she’s much more active now and the other one is busy picking at rocks. I chased it around the tank to get active and he swam from the other side back this same spot to hang out. Very weird.

 

[LeftyReefer]

Low salinity won't kill your fish, raising it too fast might though...

The videos play fine and the fish look fine to me.
But you definitely want to get your means of measuring salinity back up again.

Clowns are weird fish. Mine do all kinds of weird strange stuff out of the blue. That's what makes them clowns. they are also quite hardy luckily.

 

[Jekyl]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Dom]

He/she’s much more active now and the other one is busy picking at rocks. I chased it around the tank to get active and he swam from the other side back this same spot to hang out. Very weird.

Chasing the fish around the tank only causes stress!

 

[attiland]

First time post here, just registered to ask this. My Clownfish pair have been doing great the last 2 months. I’m pretty sure my water salinity dipped dangerously low when I lost my electronic salinity test meter due to damage mid water change. I believe it is the female who won’t move off of their hosted live rock. Laying down like it was night time in the middle of the day.

Yesterday I busted out my back up fluval sea meter and it took a day to season, I got the ppt back to 33-35. Now she’s floating upright but still won’t move from the spot.
In the video she’s much more active. Think I solved the problem or last breaths before she dies? anybody else’s clowns lay down when the environment goes south? Or parasite?

Based on the video nothing wrong with them. They hanging out near their spot all the time.
make sure your salinity do not swing too much if need adjustments do it over week(s)

 

[devrichmond]

First time post here, just registered to ask this. My Clownfish pair have been doing great the last 2 months. I’m pretty sure my water salinity dipped dangerously low when I lost my electronic salinity test meter due to damage mid water change. I believe it is the female who won’t move off of their hosted live rock. Laying down like it was night time in the middle of the day.

Yesterday I busted out my back up fluval sea meter and it took a day to season, I got the ppt back to 33-35. Now she’s floating upright but still won’t move from the spot.
In the video she’s much more active. Think I solved the problem or last breaths before she dies? anybody else’s clowns lay down when the environment goes south? Or parasite?

She’s up and swimming around just fine like I didn’t have a heart attack and stress panic for 4 hours