About a year ago, I added a foxface to my 2.5 year old tank. I didn’t realize how aggressive my Humbug Damsel was until this moment. I ended up removing the damsel but the foxface died in less than a week. Since then I’ve been much better about acclimating new additions slowly and haven’t had any issues with new fish since then. Fast forward to this last weekend, I decided I would try again with a new fox and also added a small yellow wrasse. This time I spent nearly two hours acclimating him, rearranged all the rocks and did a 25% water change the following day, bought algae pellets and brand new frozen mysis shrimp. The first day he seemed happy and swam all over the tank. Nobody chasing or nipping at him, seemed great. Day two he seemed to be obsessed with his reflection swimming up and down repeatedly for hours. Then day 3 he looked like zombie. Swimming in one place, not responding to flakes, algae pellets or mysis. I don’t have a quarantine tank but was starting to get one set up, but by day 4 he was gone. The wrasse is happy and swimming / eating. I don’t understand why all my other fish are fine, coral fine, but every time I put a fox in the tank they just die. Are they hyper sensitive to something that others aren’t? Was my food offering not enough? Was he stressed by his reflection?
Red sea refer 350 / 75 gallon display
In my tank:
- 2 clowns
- royal gramma
- blue/yellow damsel
- goby
- yellow wrasse
- several anenomes
- 3 peppermint shrimp
- hermits and snails
Red sea refer 350 / 75 gallon display
In my tank:
- 2 clowns
- royal gramma
- blue/yellow damsel
- goby
- yellow wrasse
- several anenomes
- 3 peppermint shrimp
- hermits and snails