Came home a couple nights ago to find my mid-sized foxface laying on its side barely breathing on the bottom of the tank. He was looking REAL bad in that no movement, disoriented and not even gasping as you might expect.
Just as I'm reaching into the tank to take him out to a quarantine tank my coral banded shrimp tugs on the foxfaces fin (which caused no reaction from the foxface) and pulled it back behind the rocks way out of reach.
Needless to say I am quite upset. The foxface had been in the tank for approximately 10 months and was doing well. All other inhabitants seem to be doing well and a water test confirmed all within limits.
One odd thing I noticed was my purple long tentacle anemone (macrodactyla doreensis) had one tentacle that was shrunken and turning kind of greenish. I attempted to take a picture for this post but couldn't get the angle.
Is it possible the anemone stung the foxface which in turn damaged the anemone with poison of it's own? The anemone looks fine now and the one tentacle seems to have healed.
Just as I'm reaching into the tank to take him out to a quarantine tank my coral banded shrimp tugs on the foxfaces fin (which caused no reaction from the foxface) and pulled it back behind the rocks way out of reach.
Needless to say I am quite upset. The foxface had been in the tank for approximately 10 months and was doing well. All other inhabitants seem to be doing well and a water test confirmed all within limits.
One odd thing I noticed was my purple long tentacle anemone (macrodactyla doreensis) had one tentacle that was shrunken and turning kind of greenish. I attempted to take a picture for this post but couldn't get the angle.
Is it possible the anemone stung the foxface which in turn damaged the anemone with poison of it's own? The anemone looks fine now and the one tentacle seems to have healed.
