So I got my first 2 fish today a purple fire fish goby(was supposed to be just a fire fish goby but the company sent me the wrong one…) and a foxface rabbit fish.
So I noticed my wave maker was just way too much for these little guys! So I turned it all the way down. The the foxface kept trying to go over by the power head and I didn’t want an incident! (Especially since these are my first every salt water fish)
The tank is a 20 gallon QT tank with 32 ppm salinity and 11.5 DKH. Water was 50% from display tank(which has been running almost 2 months) and 50% new water. I let it run for a little over 2 weeks with a sponge and filtration.
I let these fish acclimate for 30 or so minutes and the temps were a match. The store I naught them from said no need to drip.
So that is how I left it to go to work. Upon arriving home I found the fox face super gray and almost dead looking sitting under the (not running) wave maker.
I was wondering if that is normal for a foxface or if it’s just stress from travel? Should I feed him tonight? Or wait until the morning?
thanks for the help! Here are the pics!
So I noticed my wave maker was just way too much for these little guys! So I turned it all the way down. The the foxface kept trying to go over by the power head and I didn’t want an incident! (Especially since these are my first every salt water fish)
The tank is a 20 gallon QT tank with 32 ppm salinity and 11.5 DKH. Water was 50% from display tank(which has been running almost 2 months) and 50% new water. I let it run for a little over 2 weeks with a sponge and filtration.
I let these fish acclimate for 30 or so minutes and the temps were a match. The store I naught them from said no need to drip.
So that is how I left it to go to work. Upon arriving home I found the fox face super gray and almost dead looking sitting under the (not running) wave maker.
I was wondering if that is normal for a foxface or if it’s just stress from travel? Should I feed him tonight? Or wait until the morning?
thanks for the help! Here are the pics!