I have had a 5-6" foxface lo for a little over 6 months. It was one of the first additions to my tank. It had been doing quite well, feeding very well on daily feedings of seaweed sheets, spirulina enhanced brine shrimp, and a variety of other frozen foods.
It's in my 95 gallon display with a powder blue tang, true perc, regal tang, and royal gramma. Also, 2 cleaner shrimp and 1 fire shrimp....various hermits and snails as well...and 100lbs
live rock.
Tonight I had to remove the foxface and put it in my
QT tank, hoping to help it recover. For the last few days, it started always hiding...and I noticed that it would produce larger than normal "spews" of waste...that actually looked like small bits of the seaweed that I clip in the tank daily. I noticed the tangs actually eat some of it (weird?)
In any case, the foxface became very lethargic, and then I noticed the powder blue nip at its tail..and it barely reacted. I managed to finally chase down the foxface and remove it (I'm sure the stress of capture didn't help).
I put it in my
QT, which already had melafix, pimafix, and a bit of coppersafe in it, as I had just had a flame angel in
QT getting ready to add it to the display.
Display water parms are almost perfect...0 amonia, 0
nitrite,
ph = 8.2,
nitrates between 5-10. Tank is 6 months old. Only changes in last few weeks are addition of zoos, and some xenia.
I regularly supplement the tank with kent calcium and
iodine.
Anyone seen this happen before? I recently lost a banded goby in similar fashion and can't explain why. I'm thinking maybe the power blue, which rules the tank, gradually didd them in?
Hobby Experience: Started Christmas, 2005
Current Tanks: 95G Wave Tank (reef). Aqualight Pro (MH.
Actinic, Lunar), Berlin Turbo
skimmer, TurboTwist UV, Fish, Corals, Cleaners, Snails
Linear Mode
