Giving up on my favorite fish

[callsign4223]

This makes 4 foxfaces I've lost. All have died the same way. They seem fine and healthy, and then I find them stuck to a powerhead. I turn off the powerhead and they seem ok, but they die a day or two later. This was my signature fish in my aquarium.

Ever since I saw my first one it was the fish I knew I had to have. I'm done with them. The other fish in my tank seem perfectly healthy. The sailfin tang shows no signs of any problems.

 

[Silly clownfish]

Odd. How long are they in the tank before this happens?

Do you quarantine?

 

[1claire]

If that happened all at once then something must have gone wrong.
Try to keep an eye on the remaining fish in your tank.

 

[PCguy21]

Thankfully my foxface is a tough little bugger, sucks food up like spagettie... but i have had many other fish i just cant seem to keep

 

[callsign4223]

I've never kept more than one at a time. I do not quarantine, however these fish are living 6-18 months before perishing. Most live over a year. None of the other fish show any signs of stress or disease. The only fish I have lost that didn't jump recently was a Hippo tang that never ate in my tank. And that occurred over a year ago. I did have a flame angel die unexpectedly a few years ago, but generally my fish are healthy.

It is a 6ft 120 gallon tank. Stocking is Sailfin Tang, Maroon Clown, Ocellaris Clown, Bangai Cardinal, and 3 Chromis. Oh, and a coral banded shrimp that thinks he owns the tank.

This fish in particular is one of my longer lived ones. He was in my tank well over a year. Everything seemed fine. I fed some Nori on a clip. Him and the tang must have ripped a piece off and it got stuck to my gyre. My tank is in my living room and he is always an active swimmer. It couldn't have been 15 minutes from the time I last saw him swimming around to noticing him stuck to the Gyre. When I unplugged the gyre so he could swim free I noticed a large chunk of Nori on the gyre as well. I can only assume a piece got ripped off and stuck there and he got greedy. But a foxface should be a strong enough swimmer to not get stuck on a gyre. I'm just at a loss at this point.

 

[RioReefr]

You could try to get Foam Guard or Mesh Guard.

Also, a simple solution is getting a nylon pantyhose. OR rather than using Nori, go with with Hikari's Seaweed Extreme pellets. My Yellow Tang loves those pellets.

In my experience, Nori really makes a mess of the tank. The fish will rip off a big piece, it floats around, pollutes the tank, and creates algae problems.

 

[boxfishpooalot]

Mine died this way too. Had mine for 14 months. Its state was getting worse from stray voltage and amperage from my skimmer pump i descovered. He was fine after i pulled him off but died 2 days later. Had what looked like hlle scrapings on its body.

 

[HumbleFish]

Something must be wrong inside your tank. Rabbitfish are fairly bulletproof, their mucous coat even contains a serum which makes them resistant to ich. However, that protection may not extend to velvet and other diseases like flukes.

 

[PCguy21]

It works with velvet too.. i had velvet and ich in my tank. The onky fish resistant to it were damsels of course. Chromies. Flame hawk. Scooter and lawnmower blenny and the foxface.. I noticed hed get a spot or two but itd always go away.

Not the case with any tang angelfish or butterfly or dottyback or whatever else not related to what i described.. they get ich velvet in 3 days of arrival and die 2 days later