Foxface dead after cleaning algae
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Looked perfect and eating like a pig.
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I questioned whether or not it truly got scared to death, but my yellow tang wasn't acting right either. Staying in one corner mid way up. I fed an extra cube to see how he'd react and it never even tried to get a piece.
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I haven't gone in the basement since it's dark now. I'm hoping the tang is still alive. I ran carbon all night just incase. If it is stress, the tang wasn't on the same level as the foxface. Fingers crossed.
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In 48 years of reefkeeping, I have found Rabbits very temperamental. I believe under certain circumstance, Rabbits could die off fright.
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Can a fish become traumatized for an extended period of time? My yellow tang is out, but still acting a bit weird and won't touch food. He's hanging out with the clowns now. I'm hoping it's recovering from a stressful situation and isn't some kind of poisoned.
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The water mixes in the basement bathroom with a cover on the bucket. I really feel safe ruling out a contaminant. The other fish are fine along with corals and clam. Also, I ran rox .08 since last night.
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We had a large adult emperor angel a few years ago and chased it to catch it for dip it had ick because we thought it might have flukes. It died immediately after we caught it. We scared it to death trying to catch it. Looked like it had a seizure and then just laid on its side and breathing heavy and died. We felt so awful. Have Redesigned our fish catching techniques now. So sorry you lost yours. Hope the tang is ok.
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SAME thing happened to me! I was cleaning my algae scrubber out and a really yucky chunk of bacon fat looking algae ran up my return and was immediately gobbled by my healthy 6” foxface.
Dead by morning.
Dead by morning.
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Sound like something either from soaps or algae leached into tank.
Call it coincidence but to a degree-yes. I would if you haven't already do a water change, add carbon and if possible a filter sock to trap small micron sediment
Call it coincidence but to a degree-yes. I would if you haven't already do a water change, add carbon and if possible a filter sock to trap small micron sediment
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Sorry for your loss. I had the same thing happen to me. I lost a Fox Face and a Tomini Tang. They loved eating anything I scraped off the glass. I had just gotten over a bad Dino outbreak where I went dirty and then had a bloom of green algae and cyano that fortunately snuffed out the Dinos. There was an area on the glass that appeared that was rust colored and the snails would not touch. I decided to scrape it down one day as it was pretty unsightly. Of course, as usual the two fish gobbled everything I scraped. A couple of hours they were both dead.
My conclusion was the Dinos had somehow encysted in that area. Before I scraped the area I did look at a sample under the microscope. There were no live Dinos but the material was odd...almost too void of anything living. Other samples I would take had tons of pods and other microfauna. If it was not encysted Dinos then it was some other material that proved toxic to the fish. I haven’t seen it appear again. I hope I don’t.
Again sorry for your loss.
My conclusion was the Dinos had somehow encysted in that area. Before I scraped the area I did look at a sample under the microscope. There were no live Dinos but the material was odd...almost too void of anything living. Other samples I would take had tons of pods and other microfauna. If it was not encysted Dinos then it was some other material that proved toxic to the fish. I haven’t seen it appear again. I hope I don’t.
Again sorry for your loss.
I've lost three Foxface's in about a 4 month span.. I feel the 1st was in poor health from the LFS when I got it, 2nd still a mystery why that one expired, it happened pretty fast, lasted about two weeks, the last was harrassed by a Tang I evicted but it never recovered from the stress caused by the harrassment. I'm guessing all it takes is one incident to start the decline. I've resigned to the fact that Foxace just isnt a fish I was meant to have. still, it remains a mystery what happened to the 1st two, because overall every thing else in the tank has been thriving. Sorry for your loss mate hope the Tang is back on the upturn
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The tang still has a nervous twitch when it sees itself in the glass, but started eating like a maniac again today. I get the feeling it's upset the fox is gone. He's been hanging around the clowns. I haven't done any water changes because it will take too long to make enough water to make it worth while. Was it poisoned or scared to death? Who knows, but there is still plenty of that algae and that makes me a bit nervous to clean it.
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I have socks in place and still have the carbon reactor up.
