PhishHead

Just added a clownfish and he seems to just swim up next to the powerhead between that and the heater and just stays there. he also swims right up horizontally at the top of the water is this a problem or is he just a little uptight.

sgould

Sounds good. They typically pick a relatively small "home" area and stick close by it anyway, but this is especially true when new to a tank. I think you're fine!

nemo addict

check your ammonia levels , clowns normally when put in a new tank , will stick to one area of the tank until they build confidence , where the fish is swimming to the top is it gasping ?? if so as above check levels

zeeter

I've been having a similar thing happen for the past week. They tend to rise to the surface overnight. During the day they stay in one lower corner of the tank. Coincidentally, this is an area of low water flow. Sometimes they will venture out and about, but they always come back to the same spot. I checked my levels and they were fine. Last night they got out of whack - I think I fed them too much. Changed about 25% of my water and they seemed to appreciate it.

Kamie427

I just came to ask about the same problem. Just added my Darwin a few days ago and he just sits at the surface near the powerhead. I was hoping he'd host my frogspawn, but no such luck. Oh well, as long as this is normal.

charzar-g

yeah, clownfish will 'host' a certain area, and powerheads are quite common targets

If he's near the surface, is he gasping?? Because that could mean there is a lack of oxygen in the water, but if you have a powerhead i can't see how that is the problem.

Kamie427

No he's not gasping. Just hanging out. It bugs me, I wish he'd swim around more. But whatever floats his boat. heh heh.

charzar-g

haha, he may choose to host something else if you move the power head. But he could always just go back to the powerhead again in its new position. My pair hang around a certain peice of rock thats sticking out a lot, but they come to the front of the glass when i go in the room

zeeter

Mine have been doing the same thing for three months, just hanging in the same general area of the tank. Recently I bought a tongue coral and now suddenly they've been hosting in there.

Stang Man

He needs his or her companion! Anenome!!! Give him a freind. Lol!!

petluver

I have a true percula and it does the same thing. at night tigger swims up to the corner and is there all night.

Stang Man

To old of a thread not sure what happened with it!!!!

bluebengal

Mine does the same thing....I laugh and say he has an idetity crisis and thinks he is a whale the way he swims up at the top of the tank going almost out of the water and back in LOL he is so funny to watch......never seen him swim anywhere else but the very top and levels are good.....He has fallin in love with my powerhead as well and at night sleeps sideways at the top...Weird little thing LOL

zeeter

both of my percs sleep up in the corner. They've done that ever since I got them. Used to be that they'd spend all day up there but now they've become a bit more dominant and swim around a bit more. They still stay in the same general area, though. I think it is natural for clowns to stay close to "home" as they are not strong swimmers. This, of course, is why they like to have an anemone.

They don't need one in a home tank unless you have very aggressive fish, but they still have that instinct. Whoever said that tank raised clowns will not host with an anemone or coral doesn't know what they're talking about.

zeeter

Yeah it's an old thread, but just for the sake of accuracy, perculas generally hang out at the very top of the tank unless they have an anemone. Ocellaris will hang in the top 1/3 unless they have an anemone.

Stang Man

Yeah but in a small tank They hang low and hide so what are you getting at ?

zeeter

Not my experience at all. With nothing to do at the bottom they hang at the top. Not sure about ocellaris, but my percs do. That's partly the reason why people suggest another fish in the smaller tank - to pick up the food that the clowns miss because they don't dive down too deep.

tio70

I just started an aquarium and the first fish i addes is a percula marroon and he stay at the surface all day long, he seems to be eatin well, I incresed water movemant to avoid lack of Oxigen on the water did my water testing and everthing seems to be fine what happened finnaly to yours

zeeter

A percula maroon? Is that the offspring of a percula and a maroon clown? I'd heard that they can mate but never met anyone who owned an offspring.

I started out with very young perculas in my main display tank. They always were at the surface until I started having anemones that would live for more than a week. Then they hung out in the anemones - bulbs for all of you who think the anemone chart is Gospel. When I removed the anemone for whatever reason or if it moved somewhere in the tank the perculas would go back up to the top. Maybe not as much as when I bought them, though.

I have two very small ones in a 10gl with a sebae anemone but they won't go near it. Last sebae I had needed to be removed because my old clowns beat the heck out of it by giving it too much loving care.

Stang Man

Welcome to Fish Lore!!!!!! tio70

chris_waine1

i also have the same problem,i also introduced a bubble tip nem approx 4 months ago,only one of my clowns(both perculas) shows any interest and even this is very limited,only on occasions nuzzling the nem,will they ever take to the nem??

zeeter

They may or they may not. If they investigate it and don't go near it then there might be something wrong with the nem. But you might find that one will eventually host in it and then the other one has to be accepted by the first percula.