Fox face vs power head

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by bignose

If the fish is still small hang a piece of pipe in the corner by it to hide inside until it adjusts to it's new home. I had a similar experience with a royal gramma, it was being pestered by the other fish and it got stuck to the overflow so I hung the pipe for it.

Depending on the size your your foxface this might work it worked for my gramma.

He is small, but will retreat to the rocks if he needs to. Such a gentle fish!

[Coralgurl]

He didn't make it. I don't think it would have mattered which tank he was in.

[lpsreefer]

Three days then he died?
How long was he in qt?
Where was he bought from?
I feel bad for ya.
I love my foxfaces.
Got them both from golds.

[Aquattro]

I've had a couple fish do this over the years, they always died in a day or two. A healthy fish would not have got stuck to the powerhead, so you know it was weakened to begin with (unless it's really tiny, and it's a strong pump)

[scubadawg]

Had a filefish commit suicide 2 days ago, found him stuck to my intake, turn off the power, he swam away, put a foam filter around the intake.

Purchased a new Reef Octapus HOB 90 skimmer last week, went to go feed the fish, went looking for the filefish, stuck to skimmer intake, was dead

[Coralgurl]

I got him from oceans. I had been at pisces earlier in the day and they had a few, so when I stopped at oceans, they were the same size, thought I'd go for it. They were all thin but swimming well and eating. I got home tonight and he was stuck again, looked like he'd been there for a while, but he swam off behind the rocks. I was out for a few hours, came home and did the nightly blast of cyano, saw him by the overflow, nose out of water. He was still alive but barely. I've put him in the sump, I can't flush or freeze a live being so hopefully the sump is a peaceful way to go.

No qt, this would have been a good time to have one, just to build his strength but I don't.

[Enigma]

I'm sorry, Sheena. That really sucks.

I had to abbreviate the QT on mine. QT was extremely stressful for him. I don't know if QTing yours would have given him any greater a chance. I'm skeptical that it would have.