Fox face

[Kankashala]

I ordered a one spot fox face on line. He arrived in some pretty cold water and it was touch and go with him for awhile. He hasn’t showed any interest in eating yet. Any suggestions on what I can entice him with, I‘ve tried seaweed . I don’t know a lot about Rabbit fish, except his spines are venomous.

[leebca]

I'm going to have to say that acquiring a marine lifeform you don't know more about, like how to maintain it, is not a good procedure. You want to study up on a fish, see if you can and are willing to maintain it properly before you acquire it. Some marine lifeforms have some special needs and this you want to know before acquiring them.

Hopefully this fish is in quarantine. In this case, it is fairly straightforward in getting it to eat IF it is acclimated well enough. One the advantages of putting new acquisitions through a quarantine process is so that you can focus at further acclimating the fish and getting it to eat, besides the obvious of making sure it is healthy before releasing into the display.

Try marine algae in different ways -- sink some, under or rubber-banded to a rock, clipped to the side, floating, etc. Put in fresh every morning. Remove any uneaten just before lights go out.

Try other meaty foods, especially pods. These include mysis from the sea, ocean plankton, chopped bits of shrimp, clam, mussel, etc. Check out frozen herbivore foods at your local fish store and try different ones.

In general, the reason a fish doesn't eat is because of stress -- either real or perceived -- on the fish. If the fish is not properly acclimated, then it may never eat and the kind of food choices won't matter. No particular food will start a fish eating. What starts them to eat is an attractive food after they have gotten rid of some of the stress of captivity.

You'll find more feeding and food recommendations here:
Feeding Marine Fish and Fish Nutrition

Good luck!

[Kankashala]

Accumilation was fine, it took a little longer becuase the water was so cold. I read I've read a lot of books, there didn't seem to be a lot in print about them...The conscientious marine aquarist put them in the same ctagory as tangs. My quick refrence book has them at 4 out of 5 for stabilty. I have been giving him Nori seaweed, but I'll try the stuff actualy made for fish.
This morning he is swimming around and doesn't run or hide when I arpoch the tank...the other fish eat the frist day I got them (of course they didn't get shipped across the country) he didn't. I'll try what you suggest today, and I will keep the seaweed in longer..I only keept it in a couple hours at a time.

[Ninong]

My foxface loved Ocean Nutrition's Seaweed Selects, especially in red or green. I attached a piece of it with one of those suction cup clips that stick to the glass of the tank. I fed that in addition to a wide variety of other foods. My foxface would finish a 2"x3" piece within three hours, and that was while feeding lots of other foods because of the other fish. I didn't have many fish, one foxface, one orchid dottyback, one coral beauty angelfish and three fairy wrasses in a 120-gal tank.

My foxface was only about 3" TL when I got him but he was a good 7" TL three years later. In my opinion, my 120-gal tank was really too small for him after he grew. I gave him to someone with a 300-gal tank.

Mine was Signaus vulpinus but S. vulpinus and S. unimaculatus are very closely related. In fact, some people think they should be considered the same species. They're very nice fish. I liked mine a lot. He never caused any problems whatsoever.