Trapping Fox Face

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Enigma

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!

lots of nori will keep him away from corals


his camo will def die down once hes settled, they can be a bit skitish so nothing to worry about

[Enigma]

I just snuck into the bathroom on him . . . He's camo free, but not bright yellow yet.

I'm going to have to watch him . . . He's in the same tank as the duncan and was checking it out a little too closely.

[Skimmerking]

Shelley how i catch mine all the time is after lights out the foxface would hang up by the top. I would use ared light fish cant see the red light at night. then slowly get the net into the tank wait about 30 sec move into the area and bang. you have him in the net.

[gregzz4]

Give your new Fox time to get used to you - ours calmed down pretty quick
Smudge was in a 20g observation for just over 2 weeks
I spent as much time as possible around the tank and hand fed nori. He got used to me fairly quickly but still freaks out in the DT sometimes
He gets pellets for breakfast, mysis for dinner, and nori every 2 to 3 days
He's never bothered any of my corals and we have softies, LPS and SPS

As far as netting goes, it is as easy as already stated, but I actually caught mine daytime with 2 nets

[emerald crab]

Mine have been with me for 4-5 years. He never touched any corals. (I have only SPS )

[Enigma]

Thanks, guys

This guy was really easy to catch at the LFS. He dove into a bottom corner of the tank, went camo, stuck out his spines, and didn't move. There was no chasing him around the tank. It leaves me optimistic that he'll be easy to catch. But, with the growth rates I've been given, I suspect I'll just have to catch him when I break this system down and move to a bigger one. I have no problem catching fish in 3/4 drained and otherwise empty tanks.

He's doing well today. I gave him flake food last night, and he ate some of it. I've never had a fish eat so quickly after acclimation, and I've never had a fish eat flake before I'd had it for a week or two. Apparently he'll eat brine and mysis, though I haven't tried that yet.

This little dude eats cyano, which has completely amazed me. I don't have him in my fish QT, I have him in my coral QT. It was cycled and ready to go. He's picked most of the cyano off of one of the corals that is in there. I expect to find it all cleaned up when I get home.

This is going to be a rough five week QT for me . . . I want this little guy in my display so bad! I don't know if I'll make it. I want to do four weeks of Paraguard followed by at least a week of PraziPro (every fish I've purchased from the LFS I purchased this guy from has had intestinal worms). I did get impatient to get started and dosed Paraguard in the tank last night without moving the corals. The corals were still alive this morning, so that's good.