Injured coral beauty(maybe stung by foxface?)

[dioworld]

Hi,

Got a new foxface yesterday, ever since in the tank, the coral beauty keep on bullying it. I think finally this morning he might have injured himself, not sure if the foxface stung it,
but pretty noticable injuried right by the cheek. Now I don't see him bully the foxface anymore. Does anyone know if the poison going to kill the coral beauty if he got stung?

Thanks

 

[Kensington Reefer]

The dorsal spines of the rabbitfish are used as defense and must “stab” the offender in order to envenomate
A pic of your wounded fish might help

 

[dioworld]

Not the best pic. But can see the injured white on the cheek

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Agreed...bad pic
It’s probably a scrape
Feed the fish
It should heal fine and quickly

 

[dioworld]

Thanks, he seems ok, just got less aggressive toward the foxface(changed color and floating on top corner of the tank, hopefully will get used to the tank and not get more bullied after this)

 

[dioworld]

This morning notice he's hiding and not coming out, Then i feed the fish, he did came out but I notice his eye is cloudy(like right above the injured spot). Still eats normal and swims normal. I don't see any white spots, ichs, scratching on him, only 1 cloudy eye right above the injury spot, did the poison got worse? will he survive?

 

[Coral reefer]

I would expect it to be a fast death if venom was gonna do it

 

[Kensington Reefer]

As long as it eats, there’s a chance for recovery and survival.

 

[Darkxerox]

I've had plenty of one-eyed fish that survived 10+ years, so even if it is damaged and it's eating, it will be fine like Erin mentioned.

 

[dioworld]

Hopefully it will not get worse. Didn't realize the injury was so close to the eye until today(spine might even got into the eye but didn't notice yesterday)

 

[BAYMAC]

I've had plenty of one-eyed fish that survived 10+ years, so even if it is damaged and it's eating, it will be fine like Erin mentioned.

One of mine would never turn the lost eye side toward you. It was a Venustus angel that was a rescue. It arrived from PI with a lost eye.