Fox Face

Mrsadat · Nov 5, 2019

I’m currently stressed out and looking for any advice. I just glued a frag to to a frag plug which I thought was completely cured and my greedy fox face decided to take a nibble at it. Long story short his mouth is glued shut with a clump of glue on his mouth. Any ideas please it will help. I’m thinking tonight when the fish go to sleep I will try to catch him and carefully peal the glue off if possible. I’m stuck please any advice will help.

Crabs McJones · Nov 5, 2019

I'm sorry this happened. I've honestly never heard of it happening before. You have to be careful as foxface are venomous. Let's see if anyone from #reefsquad @ReefSquad has some suggestions

tehmadreefer · Nov 5, 2019

It will come off in a bit, foxface produce a slime that comes off them on a regular basis. I wouldn't worry longterm.

Fudsey · Nov 5, 2019

I've heard of someone's Kole tang did the same thing and the glue came off in about a day, IIRC.

Cory · Nov 5, 2019

Wow. Yeah id wait 5 days before doing anything.

Tallison · Nov 5, 2019

I've had tangs glue their mouth shut in the past. The glue should begin to work itself off naturally before it becomes an issue to fishs health. I would just observe and see how it progresses over the next 2 days

sfin52 · Nov 5, 2019

I never even thought about that happening. Hope your little guy is ok.

Aussiemarine · Nov 5, 2019

As above wait it out. Can be stressful but most of the time is comes off without intervention

Tompickles · Nov 5, 2019

I had this same thing happen a few months ago to my foxface and a tang the glue fell out of the foxfaces mouth after about three days but the tang I had to catch and pull the glue out with tweezers

Mrsadat · Nov 5, 2019

Crabs McJones said:
I'm sorry this happened. I've honestly never heard of it happening before. You have to be careful as foxface are venomous. Let's see if anyone from #reefsquad @ReefSquad has some suggestions

That’s exactly why I’m scared and don’t want to handle him because of the venom in his fin. I guess I will just wait it out.

Mrsadat · Nov 5, 2019

Tompickles said:
I had this same thing happen a few months ago to my foxface and a tang the glue fell out of the foxfaces mouth after about three days but the tang I had to catch and pull the glue out with tweezers

I sure hope so thanks for the info

Mrsadat · Nov 6, 2019

Mrsadat said:
I’m currently stressed out and looking for any advice. I just glued a frag to to a frag plug which I thought was completely cured and my greedy fox face decided to take a nibble at it. Long story short his mouth is glued shut with a clump of glue on his mouth. Any ideas please it will help. I’m thinking tonight when the fish go to sleep I will try to catch him and carefully peal the glue off if possible. I’m stuck please any advice will help.

Just an update on my Fox Face this morning I was able to catch him in a net. The plan was to put him in a TankliMate and watch him, but my buddy was so furious at trying to get that the glue came off. He’s eating now and happy again. Thanks for all the help and support from all my R2R Family that gave me advice and I have learned another lesson in this ever changing hobby. I WILL ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE GLUE IS FULLY CURED FIRST!!!!! Have a great day #R2Rfamily