My foxface ate over $1000 worth of corals. I finally caught him and he's available..

asn-naso

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#1
Over the past 3-4 months my foxface started eating my monti's. He ate all of them, the plates, the stags. Then he moved on to my mili's, and some of the birdsnests. He then decided he liked zoas, and for those of you who remember me, I have a ton of them. He ate the mauls, sunny-d's, CARs, bam bams, strawberry lemonaid, etc.... Well, I finally caught him tonight. If anyone wants him, and is going to put him in a FOWLR tank, please drop me a PM or an email. I would like $20 or so for him, just to recoup the costs of all of these nets I had to buy. LOL!!

I wish he would have gone after my ping and golds, or green palys, but NO!! Just the stuff I liked.
 

asn-naso

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#4
So, the foxface didn't make it and is laying on his side this morning. I think the stress of being chased for an hour, being caught and kept in a 1 gal rubbermaid was too much. I feel bad that he didn't make it, but not that bad.

Balz/Ray - Thanks!
 

Andrew_bram

Tiger Shark
M.A.S.C Club Member
#5
I have a green slimer i can frag if you need a piece. I dont know what kind of green slimer but its yours if you want it.
 

asn-naso

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#9
I've heard of hippos eating CARs, but never heard of a foxface getting a taste for them. And then, he didn't stick with just one type.

I don't know what to put in my tank (fish wise). The foxface was a huge % of the livestock, shared with my naso and my purple tang. I also have 4 clowns, a pink streaked, and a anthias in there too. Maybe a midas blenny, and a dottyback to add some color??

Chad - Thanks man. I'll give you a ring.
 

BrianH

Butterfly Fish
M.A.S.C Club Member
ex-officio
#10
That sucks, I would flip if that happened to me! I have a couple colors (red and purple) of branching montipora I would be willing to DBTC to help with your damage.
 

Matt_Arian

For Stuffing!
M.A.S.C Club Member
#11
As always, I've got some watermelons if you want them!
 

LeviK

SCMAS Board Members
S.C.M.A.S BOD
#12
asn-naso;336125 said:
Over the past 3-4 months my foxface started eating my monti's. He ate all of them, the plates, the stags. Then he moved on to my mili's, and some of the birdsnests. He then decided he liked zoas, and for those of you who remember me, I have a ton of them. He ate the mauls, sunny-d's, CARs, bam bams, strawberry lemonaid, etc.... Well, I finally caught him tonight. If anyone wants him, and is going to put him in a FOWLR tank, please drop me a PM or an email. I would like $20 or so for him, just to recoup the costs of all of these nets I had to buy. LOL!!

I wish he would have gone after my ping and golds, or green palys, but NO!! Just the stuff I liked.
So he ate over 1k of corals in 1 night? I would have thought you would have pulled him the moment you figured out he was eating stuff and dealt with possibly losing some to the fact of ripping apart the tank to get the fish rather than leaving the fish in there to eat more. Sorry about your fish dying. A good reason to buy a $40 fish trap.
 

asn-naso

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#13
Levi - Nope, it happened over about 3 months. I couldn't catch him, and didn't want to tear down the tank to get him. I have also been super busy with my job.

I also tried a fish trap more than once. Every fish went into it, but him. I had to try several time, and finally caught him in a net.
 

LeviK

SCMAS Board Members
S.C.M.A.S BOD
#14
Sorry to hear. Let me check my frag tank tonight to see what I have that can be cut and I will pm you to see what you don't have.
 

asn-naso

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#15
Thanks Levi, I appreciate it.

Also, to clarify it to the group. I still have a lot of corals in my tank. This was by no means a crash. Just a bad situation. And to help clarify the $1000, so it doesn't sound like an execration, I lost 2 colonies of sunny-d's. Each one had 30 or so polyps in it. I lost 1.5 colonies of my CAR's., each of those had about 20 polyps. I still have CARs, and actually have some on some plugs, so I am ok there. The strawberry limeades, I had 2 colonies of close to 100 each. I am down to 10-20 polyps of those. He ate 2 of 3 10-polyp colonies of rastas. When you look at street value of these, it adds up fast.

All of the monti's are gone, although I do see a small pit of orange/ping on the edge of a cap. Those are usually a dime a dozen and grow really fast.

Now my mili's, those are probably the SPS I'll miss the most. Cool colors. My acro's, they are all fine, and were not touched, and nether was my ponops (sp) birdsnest, but the other birdsnests and stylo's were picked at.

Oh, my sunburst monti. I don't know why it was left alone, but it is doing ok. There is a section in the middle that looks like it was bothered, and killed, but it's doing ok.

I do appreciate the DBTC's. That is one thing that this club is great at. Helping out others.

Thinks on my list that I'd like to replace (and I don't mind paying for them).

- Sunny D's
- Keds Reds
- Bam Bams
- Darth Mauls (these melted a long time ago, but still on my list)
- Prism Rainbows (from Gonzo) - Kinda looks like Sunny D's
- Fire and Ice
- Bright orange zoa from Munch - I don't know what these are called, but I watched the foxface rip them off of my frag rack.
- red hornets - had a very small colony of these
- cherry charms
- lazer lemons
- Several other colonies that I don't remember the name of. :-(

He seemed more interested in the smaller ones, not the larger paly's. But this was after he finished with the mili's and monties.

Again, I am not looking for handouts, but will DBTC things back out if they are DBTC'd to me.
 
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