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The Horror.

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Topic: The Horror.
Posted By: Jared
Subject: The Horror.
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 5:40pm
I looked in my tank and what did I see?







A $35 lunch for my Anemone.




Was perfectly healthy yesterday. Who thinks it died and the anemone ate it? Who thinks the anemone killed it first?


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Jared Neilsen
Lehi, Utah



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Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 9:43pm

  Awww... nooo!  What kind of fish was that?  Can I cast a vote for "I think he was fine, then had a fish freak, bonked his head on the glass, and the anemone was an opportunist..." ?  

Sorry ~ ~  Renee



Posted By: ewaldsreef
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:17pm
I really think that the fish died and the anemone lucked out. Sorry that sucks

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Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:41pm
I agree with Bruce. With that pasty look to him - I'd say he was toast before the anemone got 'em.


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 11:14pm
It was a purple tang, I didn't see the anemone ketch it. I think that's actually while the anemone is spitting the tang back out. The tang is a little (ok a LOT) larger than the food I usually feed the anemone.

I have a massive brittle star that usually devours anything that dies in my tank so that has me a little suspisoues of the anemone, though I have had that anemone for years and it's never eaten a fish.


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Jared Neilsen
Lehi, Utah


Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 11:55pm
Ouch!  Yeah I bet the fish was in bad shape when the anemone caught it. That sucks!

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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 8:46am

I agree with the sick fish conclusion. Fish can seem healthy, yet be sick for weeks or have some kind of heart condition and then die within hours. I have seen healthy fish get nabed by one or two anemone tentacles but flip it off as through it were nothing. When a fish is sickly, it lays around being blown by the water current then momentarily "kicks", which gets it blowing around somewhere else in the tank. I hate watching it.

Brittle Stars, on the other hand, can catch healthy, but unwary fish. I've heard of a Brittle Star that slowly formed a cage around a small Regal Tang. The Regal was too dumb or frightened (you know how they hide in a tight place) to notice till it was too late to escape the bars of it's death trap.



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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 8:52am

I'm going to say it was a healthy fish that just swam into the anemone.

 I've heard of a Brittle Star that slowly formed a cage around a small Regal Tang. The Regal was too dumb or frightened (you know how they hide in a tight place) to notice till it was too late.

I'd have to see that to believe it.  As far as I've found, not one single person has actually seen or videotaped a brittle star ever catching a healthy fish.

Adam



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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 8:57am
Originally posted by Adam Blundell Adam Blundell wrote:

I'm going to say it was a healthy fish that just swam into the anemone.



I do remember you had a carpet anemone that was eating your fish. What did you ever do with it.  I've had this anemone for about 3 years now and it's never eaten a fish before, but it's also getting rather massive. It'll open up to around 9". It just needs to hurry up and split.


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Jared Neilsen
Lehi, Utah


Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 9:01am

Well first off, I think carpet anemones are more likely to catch fish, so I could be totally wrong on your anemone (especially since everyone else is taking the other side).  But I sold my carpet anemone (and the buyer was definately aware it was a fish catcher).

But I miss that anemone, it was way cool looking.

Adam



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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 10:38am

Adam, I know the person that saw it happen and now you can say that you have "heard of it happening".

Of course, the Carpet Anemone is the exception. But shoot, the fish is just asking to be eaten when it snuggles up to a carpet.



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Posted By: RTaylor
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 3:39pm
Want another fish eating carpet Adam? I have one I'm trying to get rid of. If I could only figure out how to get it off of the glass.

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RT


Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: October 29 2005 at 9:56am
That's not too difficult. To get an anemone off of the glass, use a single edged razor blade or a nice new, straight algae scraper blade.

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Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: October 29 2005 at 12:10pm
I've had success getting an anemone off of glass with a credit card


Posted By: Connie
Date Posted: October 29 2005 at 4:28pm
My tube anemone eat two purple fire fish in one day... $$$$ That was about three years ago. I watched him catch them. Got one back out but it died from the sting.  None since........ go figure


Posted By: RTaylor
Date Posted: October 29 2005 at 4:58pm
Its foot is about 6"D and is attached to the glass right up against a rock under about 4" of sand. every time I try to get it it shrinks into the sand and all you can see is a 2" x 3" section of tentacles. It is about 18"D when fully open.

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RT



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