One Spot Foxface and Tomini Tang

[sixline]

110 gallon tank. I've got several small fish (pair of ocellaris, tailspin blenny, and a couple of others). I added a 2" one spot foxface a couple of weeks ago. He was in a tank with about ten other one spots and was the most active of the bunch and the king of the tank.

One I added him to my tank, he went into fright coloration and hid for a few days, but continued eating. He's slowly ventured out more and more and has explored the whole tanks but still spends a lot of time hiding. He's never colored up to full yellow. He's either in fright coloration or a dullish yellow which is like halfway to full coloration. It seems like this is an indicator of a mood between full on fear and relaxed comfort.

Anyways, as my final inhabitant for the tank I am planning a tomini tang. I was going to wait a couple of months, but there is a beautiful, quarantined specimen at a LFS and I am considering getting him. I'm wondering whether this will further spook the foxface, or if it might even have the opposite effect of enticing him to come out more and explore like the tomini will likely do.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[littlefoxx]

110 gallon tank. I've got several small fish (pair of ocellaris, tailspin blenny, and a couple of others). I added a 2" one spot foxface a couple of weeks ago. He was in a tank with about ten other one spots and was the most active of the bunch and the king of the tank.

One I added him to my tank, he went into fright coloration and hid for a few days, but continued eating. He's slowly ventured out more and more and has explored the whole tanks but still spends a lot of time hiding. He's never colored up to full yellow. He's either in fright coloration or a dullish yellow which is like halfway to full coloration. It seems like this is an indicator of a mood between full on fear and relaxed comfort.

Anyways, as my final inhabitant for the tank I am planning a tomini tang. I was going to wait a couple of months, but there is a beautiful, quarantined specimen at a LFS and I am considering getting him. I'm wondering whether this will further spook the foxface, or if it might even have the opposite effect of enticing him to come out more and explore like the tomini will likely do.

Any thoughts on this?

Could go either way depending on the temperament of the tang once its in your tank. They would probably figure it out

 

[BryanM]

I have a larger fox face and a smaller tomini in my tank, and they both get along great.

 

[tritonpower]

I have recently added a tomini to my foxface in my 40 gallon. They were instant best friends.

 

[rhitee93]

I had a tomini in my 120 before I put the foxface in. It's been close to two years since the foxface went in, and they get along fine. They were similar in size then, but the foxface is much bigger than the tang now.

 

[JoJosReef]

Couple of weeks is a short time for a foxface. It will get bigger and color up, but will probably always change from bright yellow to half black on a dime. They're just easily frightened except for a few bold ones (@littlefoxx ).

 

[littlefoxx]

Couple of weeks is a short time for a foxface. It will get bigger and color up, but will probably always change from bright yellow to half black on a dime. They're just easily frightened except for a few bold ones (@littlefoxx ).

Mine actually killed a fish last night.

 

[sixline]

Thanks for all the responses.

UPDATE: I picked up the smallest Tomini tang at my LFS today. He's the size of a nickel and pale in color, but looks very healthy and active. I added him to my tank about a half hour ago. Everyone has seen and interacted with him without incident.

 

[gmavrom]

I had bad experiences with a Bristle tooth, yellow-eyed. He was the bully who killed a new coral beauty. Did bought a one-spot, but he died in my 10-gallon observation tank. He was 2.5 inched, but would not eat.

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

I recently added a fox face to my tank with a tang already in it and thus far they seem to not be on the friendliest of terms. I'd say the one thing that keeps things in check for the smaller foxface is that he has those spines and flashes them when the tang gets near. Slowly, i am seeing a thaw in their interactions so i assume all is going to be well.

How is your tang doing so far? I'm wondering because a nickel sized tang is tiny and I'd feel nervous adding any fish that small to my tank. I think i'd keep him in another tank for a little bit until it gets a bit bigger.

 

[Pennywise67]

My Fox Face and Tomini Tang are buddies. They swim together all the time.

 

[HDK]

I've only had one rabbitfish [a fox face] and that was years ago. But I've got a skittish Tomini tang that's about 4 inches and I'm looking for a One Spot to add to the tank. It's my first bristletooth tang so I don't know if this is true for all of them, but it only eats short, small algae [ex: no bubble algae or interest in Nori sheets or hair algae over 1/4 inch tall]. I'm thinking the One Spot will eat bigger, longer algae and so isn't exactly competing for food?

 

[vlangel]

I just added a small juvenile one spot foxface with a blue eyed kole tang and they both did well in my tank with long time inhabitants. Maybe adding the tang gave my little foxface courage because it doesn't even let the big coral beauty or big ocellaris clown bully it. He throws his spines up and basically says back off!

 

[gmavrom]

I recently added a fox face to my tank with a tang already in it and thus far they seem to not be on the friendliest of terms. I'd say the one thing that keeps things in check for the smaller foxface is that he has those spines and flashes them when the tang gets near. Slowly, i am seeing a thaw in their interactions so i assume all is going to be well.

How is your tang doing so far? I'm wondering because a nickel sized tang is tiny and I'd feel nervous adding any fish that small to my tank. I think i'd keep him in another tank for a little bit until it gets a bit bigger.

The Tomni Tang is doing great. He pigs out as does his buddy the scopas. I will be adding a One spot Fox face tomorrow. His is 3 inches

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

My tang has done little as an algae eater in my tank but my one spot is a beast

 

[gmavrom]

My tang has done little as an algae eater in my tank but my one spot is a beast

My tang has done little as an algae eater in my tank but my one spot is a beast

I added the fox face and he is now accepted in the tank. Sometimes the small Tomni harrasa him but he is munching on the rocks already