Foxface battle
- Thread starter jfbhd4
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He's a rabbit: they're scared of everything. Powder browns run the tank. Turn out your light and drape the tank in a black sheet for an hour. That will stop the fight. Then turn the lights on. Every day's a new world if you're a tang...or a duck...or a rabbit. The tang will wake up with the scent of rabbit on the wind and think he's been there for a century, the rabbit ditto---he'll still be afraid of the tang, but he'll have forgotten the fight...
The real danger is that the rabbit is the venomed one, and if pressed hard he could hurt your tang. He's positioned himself where if bitten, the venomed spines will engage and the tang could be painfully stung.
The real danger is that the rabbit is the venomed one, and if pressed hard he could hurt your tang. He's positioned himself where if bitten, the venomed spines will engage and the tang could be painfully stung.
DrBDC
Active member
After my kole tang kicked my new powder brown's butt for almost a week. I came home and it's like the kole didn't notice the powder. Then the powder decided to see if he was #2 or #3 in the tank and kept tail whipping at the foxface. The foxface would lie sideways in the cave and spike up. The stupid powder would then pick at the spikes and the foxface would move at him but not like it was trying to impale him badly. That only lasted a day or two and now the 3 swim with each other and are bud's.
STABB
In Memoriam
I had a foxface and a yellow tang in my tank... briefly. The yellow tang fought him for the first week I had him, but I didn't want one to hurt the other so I took him back and now he's in petco's display tank... He was in "wig-out" mode a good 50% of the time the light was on in my tank... he didn't seem very happy.... I got a lion instead--which I am kind of regretting due to his refusal of anything but ghost shrimp.
Hey Stabb you need to train your lion.
Here is what I did...
Grab a little goldfish or guppy and dangle him over the tank. If the lion is hungry (and after he figures out what you are doing) he will go up to the surface and wait for you to drop the fish. With my lion, the goldfish would last about 1/10 of a second before being gobbled up.
So, pretty soon you can start replacing the goldfish with whatever... the stuff is not in the tank long enough to be recognized. I know I used to feed my lionfish algae pellets when I ran out of frozen food and was too lazy to go to the store.
Here is what I did...
Grab a little goldfish or guppy and dangle him over the tank. If the lion is hungry (and after he figures out what you are doing) he will go up to the surface and wait for you to drop the fish. With my lion, the goldfish would last about 1/10 of a second before being gobbled up.
So, pretty soon you can start replacing the goldfish with whatever... the stuff is not in the tank long enough to be recognized. I know I used to feed my lionfish algae pellets when I ran out of frozen food and was too lazy to go to the store.
