Please health check my fish

PegasisR · Dec 20, 2018

I've got two clowns but basically they have the same identical colouration and all the fish eat and swim pristine during day hours

HotRocks · Dec 20, 2018

I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

ihavecrabs · Dec 20, 2018

Rabbit is definitely stressed in the photo but that in itself isn't abnormal as long as it isn't happening too often.

Reefahholic · Dec 20, 2018

They don't look bad to me. I think that larger fish is just changing color normally.

PegasisR · Dec 20, 2018

ihavecrabs said:
Rabbit is definitely stressed in the photo but that in itself isn't abnormal as long as it isn't happening too often.

He usually does that when the lights are off but when its daytime hes out and about full yellow colouration

PegasisR · Dec 20, 2018

Thank you guys for health checking them! Will keep an eye on the fox face as its only been 7 days since i got him

Reefahholic · Dec 20, 2018

PegasisR said:
He usually does that when the lights are off but when its daytime hes out and about full yellow colouration

His coloration is definitely off, but it doesn't appear to be anything like velvet or another parasite. Not yet anyway....He may be stressed.

Big G · Dec 20, 2018

I have a Foxface in QT right now and when he/she has been bothered or just woke up looks just like yours.

PegasisR · Dec 21, 2018

Reefahholic said:
His coloration is definitely off, but it doesn't appear to be anything like velvet or another parasite. Not yet anyway....He may be stressed.

Anything i can do to help relieve stress?

Jvesche20 · Dec 21, 2018

PegasisR said:
Anything i can do to help relieve stress?

How long have you had it in the tank for? I just got a Fox face not too long ago and when it was at the fish store it was looking perfect then when I got home it looked like yours in the bag. I acclimated it and woke up the next day and it was perfectly fine. A lot of things can stress out a fish. Some common things could be other fish, high ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels. Are your parameters normal?

Also at night fish tend to change colors and become a little more pale. I don’t have an explanation for this but I had a yellow tang and the first time I saw it at night I freaked out because it was more of a white yellow instead of a bright yellow. Then the next morning it was fine. It did this everyday so if it’s just at night nothing to worry about.

PegasisR · Dec 21, 2018

Jvesche20 said:
How long have you had it in the tank for? I just got a Fox face not too long ago and when it was at the fish store it was looking perfect then when I got home it looked like yours in the bag. I acclimated it and woke up the next day and it was perfectly fine. A lot of things can stress out a fish. Some common things could be other fish, high ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels. Are your parameters normal?

Also at night fish tend to change colors and become a little more pale. I don’t have an explanation for this but I had a yellow tang and the first time I saw it at night I freaked out because it was more of a white yellow instead of a bright yellow. Then the next morning it was fine. It did this everyday so if it’s just at night nothing to worry about.

I've had him for 8 days now

and my parameters are steady at ammonia-0, nitrite-0-0.1, nitrate-20, ph-8.2

that's exactly what my fox face does also and sometimes if spooked or if I'm close to the tank he will do that! But as far as everything else goes he acts normal during the day!