FoxFace Rabbitfish

[Scottmac]

Hello,

I added a Foxface to my tank yesterday to my current tank occupants (3 clowns, 2 Damselfish, a Blue Tang, a Royal Gramma and a Mandarin). All other fish are doing well well, but the Foxface is showing clear signs of stress - it keeps reverting to its camo brown speckled pattern, then gradually changed back to white/black/yellow. It is a juveline about 2.5" in length, and it is taking flake.

My water specs are fine, but I do have two external filters with spray bars so the flow is fairly strong.

Any advice? Or is this just a shy fish?

Scott

 

[Zionas]

Good that it is taking flake and eating well. It’s just a shy and skittish fish that takes time to adjust. It’ll be fine.

 

[Marsh980]

Foxfaces are renowned shy skittish fish when getting accustomed to new tanks. I've had mine approx 8 weeks and it's still a little skittish and goes camo and darts into the rocks. It eats like a pig though and very protective over the algae pellets. It and my blue throat trigger are like teenagers when i drop those in...

Tangs can be intimidating to new fish, especially shy skittish ones because they're often if not always darting from one side of the tank to the other

 

[Scottmac]

Hi

Thanks for your replies, that is a relief

Thankfully it is not being bothered at all by the other fish. I intend on feeding the Foxface and the Blue Tang algae pellets, but I got them to eat the algae in my tank so I will not overfeed them to encourage grazing.

I am trying to stick to a routine of flakes/pellets in the morning, and some liquid Artmeia in the evening. Do any of you ever clamp spinach/cabbage for Foxfaces?

Scott

 

[Marsh980]

Hi

Thanks for your replies, that is a relief

Thankfully it is not being bothered at all by the other fish. I intend on feeding the Foxface and the Blue Tang algae pellets, but I got them to eat the algae in my tank so I will not overfeed them to encourage grazing.

I am trying to stick to a routine of flakes/pellets in the morning, and some liquid Artmeia in the evening. Do any of you ever clamp spinach/cabbage for Foxfaces?

Scott

That's great news its fitted in well with its tank mates.

I've tried Nori/Seaweed sheets using the suction/clip and under the magnet glass scraper but none of the fish are brave enough to come up and eat it. This is why i'm using pellets right now but I'll reduce the volume of them when I finally get tangs. Tangs will hopefully be brave enough to eat from the suction nori clip which should then in turn encourage all the other fish to follow suit.

I've heard of lettuce being given to fish but not spinach/cabbage. Maybe someone will come along who has tried that.

 

[Big G]

That's great news its fitted in well with its tank mates.

I've tried Nori/Seaweed sheets using the suction/clip and under the magnet glass scraper but none of the fish are brave enough to come up and eat it. This is why i'm using pellets right now but I'll reduce the volume of them when I finally get tangs. Tangs will hopefully be brave enough to eat from the suction nori clip which should then in turn encourage all the other fish to follow suit.

I've heard of lettuce being given to fish but not spinach/cabbage. Maybe someone will come along who has tried that.

Could try shredding some nori into strips. Use a rubberband to attach the strips to a rock that can be place on the bottom, and various secure places on your rockscape. Sometimes this works pretty good.