Foxface question

browniebuck

browniebuck

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My foxface has been in my tank for almost a year now and is almost always more of a tan color than the yellow (he has been this way since we got him). He gets almost totally yellow from time to time, but more often than not, he is tannish. What could the cause of this be? I saw on another site that they have a regular foxface and then they have a foxfact Lo...could this be what I have?
 
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rcreations

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Mine gets tan or darker color when it is stressed or when the lights go out. Most of the time it is bright yellow. But if yours is tan most of the time, then it could be a different species of Foxface. Not sure.
 
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nereef

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could we get a pic? a foxface lo, i'm pretty sure, is a common foxface. correct me if i'm wrong, but i think Lo was an old genus that isn't used any more.
 
spanko

spanko

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Foxface Lo = Siganus vulpinus No black spot on back.
Foxface Butterfly = Siganus unimaculatus Has a black circular spot on back.
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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I am at school now, but when I get home, I will try to get a picture of him. He seems very healthy and is otherwise perfectly normal...he is just tan on the top and yellow on the bottom. When we bought him, he (assuming it is a he???) was mostly yellow, though he did have some tan on him.
 
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nereef

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aw, jou are right spanko. i still learn somethin' here every day.
there are a bunch of rabbitfishes. you might try looking up the siganus genus on fishbase to make sure you don't have something other than the two we just mentioned.
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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I know that there wasn't a black spot near the tail fin when we got him...just didn't know if this might mean that there was something wrong with him (though, if he has been this way for almost a year, I guess that he is doing pretty well...fat and happy).
 
spanko

spanko

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I am gonna guess that you got a Foxface Lo (vulpinus) Here is a pic of one from fishbase.

Here is the unimaculatus
 
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rcreations

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Wow! You learn something new everyday. I didn't know there was a difference. I guess mine (avatar pic) is a butterfly then.
 
spanko

spanko

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Which one brownie the Lo? I tried to find some infor on if they change color as they age, get more of the brown, or if there are invironmental issues that may cause it but have not seen anything yet.
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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sorry it took so long to get a picture up, but here are a couple of pics (not the greatest quality, he is camera shy...the nastiness you see is the back of my tank which is pretty much against a wall making it difficult to clean).

 
chrgerondavins

chrgerondavins

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foxface change colors pretty often. I've heard they darken with stress. Not sure how true it is, but are there any "annoying" tank mates he has to deal with?
 
browniebuck

browniebuck

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He is in with a keyhole angel, an eibli angel (yes, 2 dwarf angels in the same tank...but for some reason, it seems to be working...over 9 months together), a mandarin, a yellowtail damsel, xenia, 2 sickly zoanthids, hermits, snails (what is left of them after my freaking hermits have eaten over 2 dozen...not needing to look for a shell as we have over 50 empty shells throughout the tank, just doing it to be mean!!! I hate hermits!!!), anemone crabs, porcelain crabs, emerald crabs, and a new BTA.
The foxface is by FAR the biggest fish in the tank, and it is buddies with the yellowtail damsel, so that isn't the problem....
 
chrgerondavins

chrgerondavins

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Originally Posted by coraljunky
http:///forum/post/2481582
Yeah, they are a STRANGELY behaved fish. He is about 4-4 1/2" and my leather is HUGE

Hmm I keep deciding whether or not to add a foxface back in to my tank, when I bought it he came with it (bought the tank already established) I may bite the bullet and go get one.
 
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