Dead fox!?!

[JumperAlex]

Everything has been going fine in the tank. My fox face was the first fish I added to this tank and has lived through everything that has happened in this tank. He ate normally last night and was even swimming around like normal when I stopped by home before dinner tonight around 5. I just got back home around 7:40 and found him like this!

No signs of fighting or anything of the sort that I could find and all of the other fish look normal. Can anyone tell me what could have happened? Water parameters are near perfect as I wanted to start corals in the next week or so. Ph 8.2, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates <10.


90g FOWLR
Foxface lo x 1
Ocerllaris clown x2
Blue spotted Toby puffer x1
Tomini tang x1
Flame hawk x1
Mandarin dragonet x1
Red legged hermit crab x 5-10
Snails x 5
Short spine urchin (red) x 1
Conch x 1
Chocolate chip starfish x 2

 

[JumperAlex]

Little update...I alternate between frozen and pellet food every other night. Tonight is a pellet night and my Tomni tang was more aggressive about getting the pellet food then normal. This is the only noticeable thing different since fox has passed.


90g FOWLR
Foxface lo x 1
Ocerllaris clown x2
Blue spotted Toby puffer x1
Tomini tang x1
Flame hawk x1
Mandarin dragonet x1
Red legged hermit crab x 5-10
Snails x 5
Short spine urchin (red) x 1
Conch x 1
Chocolate chip starfish x 2

 

[Reefing Madness]

Welp if one fish starts to get bullied, I've had dealings where they just give up, hide and won't eat. Then eventually just die. Sorry, thats the only explanation I can come up with. Its happened in my tank a couple times.

 

[-Logzor]

I had a recent random fish death like this too, although it was a new anthias that had been in my QT for 4 week and then in my display for 2 weeks, never any signs of any problems all other fish still are alive an healthy. Although the big original anthias in my system was aggressive. My only conclusion is that the fish was knocked unconscious from getting hit by the other fish and just died. Can that even happen?