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10-26-2007, 09:01 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Foxface is acting weird
My foxface is acting weird. It is actually behaving a lot like my first one did just before he died  . I don't get it, I thought foxfaces were supposed to be very hardy. The other 3 fish in the system are perfectly healthy and have been in there since the beginning. He isn't getting picked on and he was swimming just fine yesterday. Today he has locked himself between 2 rocks with his fins and is just hovering there.
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10-26-2007, 09:10 PM
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Location: bend, oregon
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Is he eating???
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10-26-2007, 09:45 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
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He ate a couple of pieces of shredded nori that I put in the tank but he definately wasn't vigorously attacking it the way he normally does. He seems really listless. I just checked the water chemistry and it came out PH 8.2, 0,0,0, for amm,trites,trates. 380 calcium 10 alk.
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10-26-2007, 09:48 PM
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All I can offer is to keep a variety of food in his face and make sure he continues to eat until he snaps out of it
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I like to glue animals to rocks and put disturbing amounts of electricity and saltwater next to each other
Zoa and paly pics HERE
SPS pics HERE
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10-26-2007, 10:23 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
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What's the sal. and temp?
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10-26-2007, 10:23 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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78 degrees and 1.025
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10-26-2007, 10:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jerseyguy1996
78 degrees and 1.025
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There is your problem right there.
It should be 79 and 1.026 
447 posts to go Loverotties. 
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I like to glue animals to rocks and put disturbing amounts of electricity and saltwater next to each other
Zoa and paly pics HERE
SPS pics HERE
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10-26-2007, 10:30 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Come to think of it, my Royal Dottyback is acting funny as well. It's like they are both hiding. Is it possible that my Maroon Clown may have decided to go on the war path. I did notice him chasing the dottyback off pretty aggressively and now he is staying in the back of the tank with the foxface. The only one at the front is the maroon clown and he is patrolling his spot underneath the torch coral in fairly fast revolutions. |
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10-26-2007, 11:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: PA
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i thought there was something going on with foxfaces lately? seems to be a massive foxface death occurance going on recently.
the stores around me are also lacking in foxface availability.
liveaquaria hasnt gotten in any foxfaces in ages (typical Lo, not the magnificant)
cyanide poisoning?
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10-27-2007, 11:54 AM
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How long have you had the fish, was it QT'd, how big/old is your tank, what are the other 3 fish in the tank?
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10-27-2007, 02:25 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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We got him about a month and a half ago. My first foxface did the same thing but I had him for about 6 months. They are fine one day, swimming back and forth at the front of the tank and eating very aggressively when fed, and then the next day hiding under the rocks and looking extremely stressed. The other 3 fish are a maroon clown, royal dottyback, and a PJ that lives in the sump.
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10-27-2007, 02:26 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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I just did a 10 gallon water change (approx 60 gallons total tank and sump volume) and I am making up another 10 gallons to do tomorrow.
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10-27-2007, 03:15 PM
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Might be simple stress associated with conflict ... maroon clowns are nice looking but can be super aggressive.
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10-27-2007, 04:00 PM
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Big Fishy
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I've seem the maroon clown headbutt the foxface but only when the foxface gets too close to his little spot under the torch coral. Other than that the fish all get along great.
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10-27-2007, 05:54 PM
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I'd bet it's the clown I had a little 1" tomato clown stress my 2-3" sailfin tang to death.
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