Fox Face is finicky?

[bonbon]

I purchased a Foxface from my LFS
Also purchased were 2 'Ocellaris Clownfish'
and 1 'yellow tail Damsel'
and a hermit crab (that was 3 days ago)
They are my first additions since my water parameters checked out to be o.k.
Ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 5ppm
I checked again last night , everything is still the same,
I took a water sample to have a second opinion , before I purchased the fish as well.
All the fish seem o.k. and eating very well, however my Fox face dosn't seem to 'like' anything I am feeding them,
I purchased some 'Life Line' from the LFS that is what they said they feed the fish, I also tried to feed him some 'NLS' flake, The clowns, and Damsels eagerly eat whatever I put in there like little piggy's, however my Fox Face will try it out and then go hide out between the LR, he gets just as excited when he sees the food like every one else, but seems to not really want it,
BTW he looks mad or unhappy when I am around the tank, when he thinks I am not looking he will leave his rock and swim and pick at stuff, but if I pass or try to look at him he will stay by the rock and turn colors?
Help, he hates me, and I love him!
(that sounds like a flash back when I was a teenager)
-Tina

[dave00gt]

I purchased a Foxface from my LFS
Also purchased were 2 'Ocellaris Clownfish'
and 1 'yellow tail Damsel'
and a hermit crab (that was 3 days ago)
They are my first additions since my water parameters checked out to be o.k.
Ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 5ppm
I checked again last night , everything is still the same,
I took a water sample to have a second opinion , before I purchased the fish as well.
All the fish seem o.k. and eating very well, however my Fox face dosn't seem to 'like' anything I am feeding them,
I purchased some 'Life Line' from the LFS that is what they said they feed the fish, I also tried to feed him some 'NLS' flake, The clowns, and Damsels eagerly eat whatever I put in there like little piggy's, however my Fox Face will try it out and then go hide out between the LR, he gets just as excited when he sees the food like every one else, but seems to not really want it,
BTW he looks mad or unhappy when I am around the tank, when he thinks I am not looking he will leave his rock and swim and pick at stuff, but if I pass or try to look at him he will stay by the rock and turn colors?
Help, he hates me, and I love him!
(that sounds like a flash back when I was a teenager)
-Tina

hey tina,

there are some stuff you can try to entice him to eat and hopefully he will eat, try what i try which is Kent Marine Garlic Extreme, which is some addittives that you will do to his frozen foods
Another thing you can try is adding live brine shrimp, which was most likely what the fish store was feeding him
Something he will require to be healthy and happy is going to be that dried seaweed sheets, and use a veggie clip and put some seaweed in ther and he will devour that
hope this works as this works for me ..

[Ninong]

My Foxface (Siganus vulpinus) eats anything and everything. He's a pig!

I feed him:

Ocean Nutrition's Seaweed Selects (he likes the red and the green better than the brown).

Ocean Nutrition's Formula One Flake

Ocean Nutrition's Formula Two Flake

Cyclop-Eeze (freeze dried)

Sinking shrimp pellets

Frozen squid, mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, and various other frozen food preparations.

There is nothing that he won't eat. Nothing at all.



P.S. -- It is important that they get marine algae (like Seaweed Selects) daily. Mine eats a piece about 2"x2" square that I attach with a "lettuce" clip to the inside wall of the tank.

[bonbon]

wow!
Maybe, I should try some of what you feed yours and perhaps he will 'come' around.

[zhenya]

Tina,

How long since you got your Rabbitfish? What I mean to say is that mine behaved rather similar to yours for a week or so, untill he/she got used to the tank and tankmates, especially me being near the tank. What I used to do to make sure that it eats is I would put food in the tank and step as far back as I possibly could and just observed from afar. It worked for me and mine ate everyhting and anything I put in the tank( much like Ninong's fish).
Today, this fish don;t really care who is near and eats almost out of my hand.

[bonbon]

It has not been a week yet, only a few days, I noticed him eating last night and this morning, I suppose he is shy by nature, and he will take some time to get used to me.
The clowns and damsels must be very brave, they are always out and don't mind anybody near them them, I was in the tank yesterday putting more LR in and doing a small water change and the clowns were in my way.

[BubbaWPB]

Good thing you have oscellaris clowns... I've seen tomato clowns and maroon clowns that bite hands that go in tanks... a little more annoying than just getting in the way.

[bonbon]

Good thing you have oscellaris clowns... I've seen tomato clowns and maroon clowns that bite hands that go in tanks... a little more annoying than just getting in the way.

How cute, such little fishies being mean

I offered some seaweed selects, and put it on a clip, and he seems to be 'guarding' it.
He seems to be 'coming' around.
Thank you all for your feeding suggestions.

BTW, how do you feed the Life Line, it's like a gel or somthing, do you just thaw it out and brake it up?

-Tina

[dave00gt]

Good thing you have oscellaris clowns... I've seen tomato clowns and maroon clowns that bite hands that go in tanks... a little more annoying than just getting in the way.

hah!. that reminds me of one over here at the LFS , a friend of mine works there and i have him get me gobies in that tank where the tomato is at also, so he sticks his hand and the tomato goes after it and my friend has to jerk his hand back as if it was a scorpion fish trying to attack him,its hilarious

[rjs5134]

Zhenya,

No problem with the rabbitfish and your reef? I'd really like a fox face but read they weren't really reef safe. What do you think.