I think my magnificent fox face is dying

yeah ive got a foxface with a naso and a powder brown. kinda weird how similar our tanks are haha. ive also got a orange spotted goby.. well i HAD him . and chromis. okay sorry off topic. i know hawkfish can get mean sometimes. they hunt via ambush. when fox faces get scared they go camo. ive read before that if they get EXTREMELY scared they may go all brown/black. my thinking is maybe the hawkfish lurched at him or by him and startled him so much that he went into this extreme camo mode. also, be careful if you need to touch him the spines are poisonous.

 

I just check water and 0 ammonia 0 nitrite and 0 nitrate temp 79. would a dying open brain do anything? You would think if it was the cause it would affect all the fish and would be pumping ammonia into the water.

 

i adopted a dying brain once and tried to revive it but it ended up dying... no problems with the fish

 

If i brush up the side he does stick his spines out like he gets startled but does swim away just kinda floats around. the hawkfish is really tiny though...like maybe an inch long. you really think he could do that? the fox face is like 4+ inches long.

 

my foxface is a huge whimp. my coral banded scares him and hes 5 inches long

 

Well i moved him to my 20 gallon refugium to try and keep em in calmer water as the power heads were just whipping him around.

 

good idea... if you can, toss in an airstone it can only help... good luck, all you can do now is wait and watch, hope he gets better!

 

I hope so too. By the way how is your naso with the powder brown tang? I really wanted to get a powder blue tang but feared they would fight.

 

i took the risk but they get along perfectly. they actually almost always eat the same piece of veggie from either end at the same time its hilarious they take breaks from eating and resume eating all synchronized haha

 

what kinda vegi do you feed your tangs? my naso and two clowns always sleep together at night lol. its kinda weird. i guess its good they dont sleep in an anemone lol.



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