Do foxface eat corals?

[Notsolostfish]

okay so this is starting to become a trend in my tank. Every few days. I find an lps. Either acan, or hammer bothered annoyed/pinched. My tank is 8 months old no swings. I test weekly with salifert/hanna checker + have apex trident to keep trends in check. I had this hammer for 8 months. Doing great, splitting etc. tonight come back from work. And its pinched. Lines coming out if it clearly bothered. I have a foxface, royal gamm, yellow tang, midas blenny, 2 wrasses. Do foxfaces eat corals? I feed nori every other day. I also feed once a day after work 1 mysis shrimp cube. Do i need to feed multiple times a day? Do foxfaces eat corals?

Thats the hammer

 

[Cthulukelele]

My foxface randomly bites my softies. Its bites are less frequent but more damaging than my cherub angel. Neither fish ever does real damage though. I could see a foxface bite doing decent damage to a smaller fleshy coral though. They don't seem to "eat" many corals in my experience though I've heard people talk about them fully eating fleshy LPS and zoas on occasion

 

[Goaway]

Is it a one spot foxface? If so, they are known to nip coral. Not all, but enough of them do.

 

[Notsolostfish]

My foxface randomly bites my softies. Its bites are less frequent but more damaging than my cherub angel. Neither fish ever does real damage though. I could see a foxface bite doing decent damage to a smaller fleshy coral though. They don't seem to "eat" many corals in my experience though I've heard people talk about them fully eating fleshy LPS and zoas on occasion

If you look at my video. Its not a heavy damage. And more like a tiny bite enough to irritate my coral and infect it

 

[Notsolostfish]

Is it a one spot foxface? If so, they are known to nip coral. Not all, but enough of them do.

Yes one spot

 

[crazyfishmom]

I would recommend feeding more. A single cube of mysis for all those fish doesn’t seem like very much to me.

 

[Notsolostfish]

I would recommend feeding more. A single cube of mysis for all those fish doesn’t seem like very much to me.

Im going to buy an auto feeder and start feeding hikari seaweed extreme in the morning and frozen when i come back home

 

[crazyfishmom]

Im going to buy an auto feeder and start feeding hikari seaweed extreme in the morning and frozen when i come back home

Keeping nori available on a clip at all times would also help. That’s what I do for my tangs/fox face and I’ve never had one pick at anything.

 

[Goaway]

Yes one spot

Sorry. They are more likely to nip. I tried to stop mine frim eating my zoas, and all it did was make the fox fatter.

 

[JayM]

Mine doesn’t. But there’s norí available everyday, and I feed flakes or pellets mid-day and frozen in the evening.