Foxface Disappeared
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Topic: Foxface Disappeared
Posted By: jw3571
Subject: Foxface Disappeared
Date Posted: January 11 2011 at 10:48pm
| My foxface that I got around a month disappeared today. He looked great and was a big eater. What could've caused this? He's the biggest fish in my tank so I don't think another fish did it. |
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Posted By: bfessler
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 10:43am
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Have you checked your overflow box? A foxface is a big fish to disappear. I've had several fish disappear and were likely consumed by the CUC before I ever saw the remains but unless the Foxface is very small I doubt it would completely disappear in one day. I read a post recently about a blue tang that had been in the overflow for several months before he was found and survived. ------------- Burt An equal opportunity reefer, I support all hobbyists and organizations involved in Marine Aquarium Keeping. [email protected] |
Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 11:21am
| have you looked on the rocks? overflow is a possibility. Have you check around your tank? |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 11:38am
They hide really well and have good camouflage. If it's not on the floor or in the overflow and it doesn't turn up in a few days, it probably died  and got eaten overnight by the cleanup crew of Crabs and Bristleworms. 
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Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 12:16pm
If you start poking around the rocks and such looking for the Foxface, remember to do so carefully so you don't get poked (by the venemous spines, that is)!  ------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: bfessler
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 12:39pm
They do have good camouflage. When mine gets scared it turn from bright yellow to a mottled gray color and is nearly impossible to spot back in the rock-work. ------------- Burt An equal opportunity reefer, I support all hobbyists and organizations involved in Marine Aquarium Keeping. [email protected] |
Mark Peterson wrote:Posted By: Chris Scott
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 1:01pm
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yea I would check around your tank too...do you have a top on your tank? They aren't usually jumpers, but who knows. And if they do jump out, they can certainly flop a few feet away. poor guy. ------------- 55g Bowfront Corner Reef |
Posted By: kethomps
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 1:15pm
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I had the same thing happen to my helfrichi goby. Swimming, eating, fat, gone. So, frustrating.
------------- 210g sw fish West Jordan |
Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 1:19pm
| how long does it take for the fish to fully decompose withing an aquarium? |
Posted By: Luckedout
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 1:29pm
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I had a yellow tang disappear one day after seeing him in the morning. That evening I pulled out some rocks to find him and he was gone and covered in hermits. I pulled out his body and he was literally just scales and bones at that point. Barely recognizable as a fish let alone a tang. It was probably about 8 hours to reach that point. Guess it depends on the CUC as well. I have a much more diverse/larger cuc nowadays, so don't expect to find bodies at all now. ------------- -Ben 90g Mixed reef www.body-balancechiropractic.com |
Posted By: Fish Mama
Date Posted: January 12 2011 at 6:53pm
| I had a very large anenome eat a tang, foxface, and diamond goby, No more LTAs foe me. |
Posted By: jw3571
Date Posted: January 13 2011 at 1:28pm
| Found him today, dead, sucked up on a powerhead. He must've been dying behind the rocks. |
Posted By: Chris Scott
Date Posted: January 13 2011 at 6:25pm
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sorry dude, those are pretty fish. ------------- 55g Bowfront Corner Reef |
Posted By: Luckedout
Date Posted: January 13 2011 at 6:30pm
bummer 
------------- -Ben 90g Mixed reef www.body-balancechiropractic.com |
Posted By: kethomps
Date Posted: January 13 2011 at 10:01pm
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Sorry to hear. At least you know now.
------------- 210g sw fish West Jordan |