Blue Carpet-Unhappy? pic

[TracyZeuner]

I came home today and was going to feed my fish when I saw this.
Is this normal?

 

[hansonfam]

Is that what you gave him for supper last night or is that one of your tank mates?

I don't have carpets but i do know that they eat fish
And even with my nems if they are not hungry they just spit out the food later on.

Lisa

 

[TracyZeuner]

I'll have to count my fish and find out. BTW-thats coming out, not going in

 

[OrionN]

He ate one of your fish and find that he doesn't like it. Don't feed it for a while, then try small food like Mysis.

 

[55semireef]

All healthy...just regurgitating food your carpet doesn't like.

 

[TracyZeuner]

should I "pull it out"

 

[JamesJR]

No, best not to disturb the anemone. Take it out of the tank once it is away from the anemone or in the current. Why stress the anemone or get yourself stuck to it?

 

[TracyZeuner]

Well I started to pull it out and it turned out to be my 4in Goldring Bristletooth. That was an expensive dinner!

 

[JamesJR]

Geez, too bad you didn't at least get the entertainment of it being eaten.

 

[OrionN]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8467818#post8467818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JamesJR
Geez, too bad you didn't at least get the entertainment of it being eaten.

Entertainment of seen your pet got eaten????

 

[onehundred20]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8468179#post8468179 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by OrionN
Entertainment of seen your pet got eaten????

thats nature for you.

 

[Reef4Fun]

how do they eat other fish and not the clown fish?

 

[JamesJR]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8469459#post8469459 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef4Fun
how do they eat other fish and not the clown fish?

There are all kinds of arguments, but I don't think anyone has really come up with an exact answer yet.

 

[WarDaddy]

It's sticking its tongue at you.

I have heard that it is best to feed Anemones finely chopped meaty treats, and not whole are large chunks. Aparently most often an amenone will spit out the large chuncks durring th enight, not digesting most of what you feed it.

 

[adtravels]

long term
Anemone = species tank

 

[LesMartin]

Didn't look like an opinion to me. Looks like a question.

 

[delphinus]

OrionN has many years of experience and is generally a very helpful person on this forum. I welcome his "opinion" over many others.

 

[traveller7]

Folk's,

Let's keep the personal attacks and off topic dialogue out of the discussion forums.

Thanks.

 

[verde_ad]

I watched my carpet eat one of the five chromis I added to my tank last week and it was really entertaining. It also taught me not to put fish in the tank I wasn't willing to loose. Not bad with a $5 fish, but I can understang being upset with loosing a more expensive fish. My carpet has killed 3 fish, 2 chromis and 1 rabbitfish. From now on I will have my clowns and anenomes and cheep fish in that tank.

 

[OrionN]

Two clownfish hosting anemones that I had that ate tank mate are M. doreensis and S. haddoni. Other than the clowns living with it, all other fish are fair game. S. haddoni are much more dangerous to tankmate than any other clownfish hosting anemones by far.