Clown fish sleeps upside down, why?
by Aquaboy on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 | 4 Comments
I have a juvenile Clown fish, I bought him 2 week ago. I am a little worried I’ve never seen a fish sleep upside down at the top of the tank. At first I thought he was dead but after I moved him he swam back to the bottom normally. He also swims on his side at the top of the tank. I help by moving him along to the bottm then he is allright, but at night he looks like he’s dead. The salinity is fine, there is no amonia in the water the temperature is between 70-80 degrees the filter blows water pretty hard but no bubbles are produced ( I was told to many bubbles are bad for my sea-anemones). So what’s wrong with my Nemo? My white tail Damsel is doing fine.
maybe it is all part of being a clown fish think about it
Perhaps one of its fins is wounded (like nemo’s) so your fishes sense of balance is off.
*shrug* who knows, fish are funny, the pet store I go to had a mexican catfish that slept on it’s back in one of the aquarium decorations. He’s fine, he eats, swims around and everything, just sleeps on his back. If you’ve got a good fish store around though, maybe they might be able to figure out if anything’s wrong…..
It’s dead