Foxface: how reef safe

Hawkey

Hawkey

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What type of corals will these guys eat? I'm pretty sure they will eat zoos and stuff like that buy will they eat acans, lps, sps, or some open brains?
 
My one spot fox face seems to be fine with all do my corals. I have sps, Lps, zoas, softies, and he doesn't bother or pick at anything except for algae.


-Giancarlo
 
depends on fish. I had one that never touched corals. some people would say that it ate their zoas. Mine scared me everytime I had my arm in the tank, because it would zoom around panicking and always very close to hitting my arm with it's poisonous spikes, so be careful.
 
I have had a one spot foxface since before I had any type of coral, my advice is to get one small and offer it plenty of vegetation. He has not bothered any of my corals until recently he may be pecking at my bubble coral. But that's how I know when its time to feed my tank. Spot is a pig, if I put a piece of domain in there he won't stop till its gone.

to make a long pointless story short, if you get a foxface rabbitfish make sure you have an escape plan. I imagine that if one were to begin eating your reef, it wouldn't stop until it was gone. They grow fast also, fast like an Oscar grows.

oh yeah. The poop alot also.
 
I had a one spot fox face for 3 years. The tank was a mixed reef with plenty of SPS, LPS, NPS, softies, Z's and P's and he never touched a thing.

It really all just depends on the individual. I'm of the opinion that if you keep fish that are prone to picking well fed then you can reduce the risk of it happening to an extent.
 
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