Clown fish with open mouth!

mrhasan · #1 07-23-2012, 09:35 PM

Hello,

I have two o. clowns in my 20long. Just few days back, I noticed that one of my clown has his mouth open and breathing heavily (opening and closing, but not fully, the mouth rapidly). I can't seem to notice any sort of ich/infection near the gill. My water parameters are at 0 (amo, nitri, nitra) and I feed them spectra flake. I went through several forum and found that it might be an issue of jaw hyper-extension and people suggest an minor adjustment to the fish through anesthesia (which I am not comfortable with).

So did anyone experience this? What should I do? Should I just let it heal by itself?

BlueTang<3 · #2 07-23-2012, 10:32 PM

Do you have any pictures?

mrhasan · #3 07-23-2012, 10:34 PM

Don't have any right now but I will post some once I go back home.

mrhasan · #4 07-23-2012, 11:47 PM

Here is the pic.

mrhasan · #5 07-24-2012, 12:00 AM

I don't think he will survive...he is kind of floating around now

BlueTang<3 · #6 07-24-2012, 12:02 AM

Hard to tell from the picture, but how old is the setup what o you have in there. Could it be a low oxygen issue?