Anemone eating my fish.

[logicalthinking]

I added a large Green Carpet Anemone (about 12 inch diameter) to my tank about a month and a half ago, about two weeks or so later my yellow tangs fell victim too it. Then a couple weeks later it ate my other tang a sailfin tang. I just put another yellow tang in there that I was given for free it is about twice the size of the first one and is much more careful around the anemones (there is also a bubble tip in the tank that has never bothered anything). I always thought that fish were just smart enough to not touch the anemones, before I get anymore fish I need to know if its a fluke that both fish got eaten, or if its because the two tangs were pretty young, or if tangs in general are just more prone to mishaps or if green carpets are just
worse than other anemones and I should remove it.

 

[junio]

Carpet anemones are pretty sticky and capture fish more often than the bbtips, for an example. I've seen one that ate 3 blue tangs, 2 yellows and 1 foxface before the owner got rid of it.

 

[nikon187]

yes carpets are known for eating fish, especially bottom dwellers ( mandarins, gobies ect)

 

[Hammbone]

That sucks.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I am one of the few that I have been lucky with Haddonis. In the last 9+ years of keeping them (( currently have 4 )) I have only lost two fish -- yellow watchman goby, and a mandarin. Wish I knew why -- 2 of the 4 do not host clowns, and one of the tanks has moonlights, and the other does not.