Don't spook a fox face!

[LeviT]

I was talking to some of you at the last mtg about the trippy color changes my 1 spot fox face makes and I finally got around to getting the pics up.

Here is the best 'normal' pic of him I could get.

Here is one of him when he got spooked I haven't been able to get one with the normal lights on

enjoy

 

[Raddogz]

Mike caught his spooked foxface or more like scooped him up off the floor - Mike's hand was sore for a bit

 

[Rekonn]

Wow, that's cool, had no idea they did that.

 

[A_Lee]

schweet!

 

[sfsuphysics]

Schweet I got a handful of foxface spines? Harumpf! But yeah, I was moving it into the new tank, it jumped the wrong way, I reached out to catch him to save him from a hard fall to the floor, well he was like peanutbutter on bread... always going to land upside down... spines were COMPLETELY flexed open, I swear it was like slow motion the amount of detail I saw... POKE... some choice words as I tossed it into the tank... hand was a bit sore for a few days.

But yeah, from my experience with rabbitfish that freaky coloring is a defense mechanism, look at night you'll always see them "camoflauged", also when they're stressed they go into that "you can't see me" mode.

 

[seminolecpa]

They are also very good at playing possum.