Fox face experiences

[ladypheesh]

What kind of experience have you had with foxfaces eating hair algae? Many sites proclaim that they will eat it happily but I wanted to hear some real life opinions.

Thanks!!

 

[Alexander]

amazing looking fish. should graze on algea tons. tend to lose color at night so don't let that alarm you in the early hours of the day

 

[ladypheesh]

Yeah, I have seen one changing colors before... it looked really strange.

We have it on our fish wish list and now we just happen to be having a slight hair algae outbreak, so I feel like it's meant to be!

 

[jcegt87]

mine loves algae it doesnt matter what kind

if your getting it for the sole reason it eats algae i would pass get a seahare i have one its been in my tank for a good 2months

the way i see it is hair algae is part of the natural way of sea life so just use it to you advantage hence a sea hare

but fox face are awesome nonetheless especially when they spike up mine loves doing that just be carefull to not accidentally touch the spikes (poison) ,thought when i aquascape or scrape my glass he tends to go to the opposite side of the tank just make sure you know where hes at

rememner fish are more scared of you then u are of them

i have a magnificent foxface

 

[Piggy]

I have one also. Always picking at the rocks. Hair algae doesn't have time to grow with him in the tank. One of my favorite fish.

 

[d.french]

if you can find algae in my tank before tangs or foxface Lo that i got recently good luck foxface love algae.

 

[ladypheesh]

if your getting it for the sole reason it eats algae i would pass get a seahare i have one its been in my tank for a good 2months

we did look into the sea hares but I really don't want to put something in that has the potential to starve... I already cried over a lettuce nudibranch. we were planning on getting a foxface anyway beacuse we love the look of them. so it's really the best of both worlds. the magnificent one is really nice. Is he fairly reef-safe?

 

[yote]

Magnificent foxfaces are reef safe and are a pretty fish.
My one spot love anything thats geen.

 

[jcegt87]

we did look into the sea hares but I really don't want to put something in that has the potential to starve... I already cried over a lettuce nudibranch. we were planning on getting a foxface anyway beacuse we love the look of them. so it's really the best of both worlds. the magnificent one is really nice. Is he fairly reef-safe?

yes the only diff with him is youll end up paying 3x or 4x the regular yellow fox price

 

[Alexander]

good lookin foxface JCE!

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

Do foxface get to big for a 46 gallon? I love those fish

 

[dustin_P74]

70 gallon minimum is recommended

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

darn that's what I had heard