Question About my new clowns

I just got a mated pair of black clowns on Monday. They have been swimming together and are always no more than 3 inches apart. When I got home from work last night at 3 am I looked into the tank under the moonlights and saw that 1 of them was kind of swimming on it's side by the waters surface in the flow from my return from the sump with the other a few inches away normal and upright. I was worried something was wrong because it was on it's side looking like a floater but it was swimming so I let it go untill this morning. When I got up they were both acting fine again swimming around the tank together. When I fed them they both ate just fine and acted ok. Is this normal behavior for clowns?

 

Maybe its that quivering dance that they do to each other.

 

YES. He was scared of something. They always swim high when they are affraid. thats cool the other followed.
I am looking for 2 more babies of black.

 

What other fish are in there?
that fish will do that until its comfortable in your tank. Its the damsel in him.
Have you even seen a Athian hide like a baby?

 

They are the only fish in the tank. This is my first saltwater tank, it has benn up and running for a few weeks now and the clowns were the first to go in on monday.

 

Sorry I had a post I was on.
Damsels are Hardy. They swin in the stream / current for some reason when they're scared. Mine do that when one of the bigger babies are picking on them or when I used to swap them to my (old) show tank. I had a Neon / Arabian goby that used to nip at the smaller ones in there though so you'd catch the smaller one swimming in my return or at the top on an angle so he could look down (looked like he was dead). My returns alternate from side to side so you'd see him peddling his butt off then sitting there peddling his butt off........

 

USUALLY and I say usually (if you didnt check your params and something was out) They would get loopy and have been dead the next day. Kinda scarey though it being your first fish(es) to put in a "virgin" tank w/o making sure it cycled though. That would def leave it as a toss up. If they are normal today IMO they'll make it. Its been 3 days. But that is a characteristic.

 

I made sure the tank was cycled. I check parameters, not a noob at aquariums just salt.

 

I know. I was just going off the couple week cycling time and them being your first in that specific tank.
As I said, my babies do that in with my other fish when I first introduce them into that tank (at night only and in the current like yours)) and the runts do that when they get picked on so, from having it happen every "litter", I've come to believe its a characteristic.
Thats just my experience with what I've seen.

 

Few weeks now? Huh.. How many's a few...did you test to see if you were ready for fish? are you still cycling? what do you test for and what are the results?