In the event I am looking for further information and tips regarding the algae at play, I will post in the reef section. I have no interest in turning this thread (which is posted in the "Marine Fish" forum) into an algae thread, and I would like to keep it focused. I've already posted too much irrelevant info, IMO, with regards to algae and the treatment methods I am employing.

shelly, fox faces are generally easy to catch but are a bit hard to rehome unless its free they grow very fast within a year . if its macro algae your having troube getting rid of you may have to go species specific depending on the type of algae. pm me if you like and ill see if i can help you out. cheers:)

Thanks, Denny. It would absolutely be rehomed for free (unless we moved and upgraded the system before it grew too big). I don't sell any animals or plants: unless I have specifically bred/cultivated them for the purpose of sale.

i had done the same a while ago and had to rehome my foxface, i had trouble selling him but was able to find a free home in a 220g in minutes you could do the same too:) plus you can get some tiny foxfaces they would be fine for a while in your tank ive seen them as small as an inch:) cheers

I trapped mine with a bottle trap. Had him out in about 30 minutes. I re-homed mine because it was picking at the LPS too much. So yes it can be trapped.

Thanks for the feedback, via this thread and pm.

I picked up another tuxedo urchin and a cleaner shrimp today. They had exactly what i'm considering: an itty bitty one spot fox face.

The timing was terrible: as we're in the middle of packing the trailer to head out for a week. Hopefully it is still there when we get back from our trip. I could have just put it on hold, but having a week to mull things over will probably be a good thing. I'll see if I can get the QT set up before we roll out tomorrow, just in case.

Given the growth rate I can expect, having to remove it (if i purchase that one) before the next system upgrade might not even be nessecary.

It's hard to catch a foxface. I cought mine with a small hook and that was not easy either. I had been trying to catch it for weeks.

But when you will remove the foxface the algae are going to be back...so there is no point putting a foxface to resolve a problem and leave it there temporary..it is a waste of time and money. I know because I tried it and the algae returned not long after the foxface was gone.

I resolved to nopox dosing and that cleare the problem better than a foxface..although I am still stuck with one very nasty algae, the pink hairy stuff. Fortunatly the large mexican turbo eat that...unfortunatly I cannot find any :(

Thanks, Daniella.

If I find a small enough one, I may not need to remove it. My next upgrade is coming on my 40th birthday in February (happy birthday to me :D). In the event it does get too big too fast, I'll replace it with another small one. I've got some ideas as to how make trapping easier: in the event I need to do it.

We have a crazy abundance of Mexican Turbos out here. If you purchase any corals from this neck of the woods, maybe a couple could be tossed in the shipment for you.

don't forget that the dorsal fin is poison on these fish, so be carefull how you handle it!

So, I got my itty bitty one spot fox face today. :) He's the same one I saw back on the 11th. He's safely in the QT, and he's all "camoed" with his spines stickin' out. I'm hoping that he chills out a bit . . . soon. He is not happy. He had been at the store for three weeks, so I'm hoping that bodes well for his health. He looks good.

The first thing he did was nip a Kenya tree frag (I'll move the frags out when I start ParaGuard). He has a veggie clip with nori . . . I'd think that would be more palatable.

Good thing I'm going to enter the nano contest . . . I may have to move all of my corals into it. As long as he eats bryopsis, I'll tolerate just about anything from him!