blue haddoni tried to eat my marroon clown

[chris79]

just like the title says my blue carpet which has had my female maroon hosting in it for 6 years, just latched on to her. She has blue tentacles all over her body and about 20% of her scales are missing where the carpet latched on good i guess. What the hell is going on. my male maroon is still in ther just fine and dandy but she is scared to death of it now. What are my options.


The two clowns and the carpet are the only occupants in the tank. I feed the anemone two silverside bodies daily and sometimes moe so i know its not hungry.


The female marroon is about 5.5 inches long and thick, but the carpet is a good 18 inches across.

THe only thought i have is that when my freind traded it back to me he said he wasnt feeding it very often, so could the feedings have made it heathlier and more potent.

 

[chris79]

Bump

 

[Mirror Pond]

I've heard of haddon's eating clownfish but not one that been together for so long. Hopefully someone with experience with this will have more info.

 

[elegance coral]

I believe your clown was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Many things can cause your hadoni to fire its stinging cells. If something else in the tank, anything, caused the anemone to fire its stinging cells and the clown was in the way it could get zapped. I don't believe your hadoni was after your clown. I believe your clown will heal and eventually return to the anemone. Just my opinion.

 

[Heterodonut]

If you are looking for advice, try replacing the maroons with something that naturally hosts a haddoni like a polymnus or clarkii. I think I've heard a horror story or two though about even saddles being consumed by them, but much less likely.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10597671#post10597671 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral
I believe your clown was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Many things can cause your hadoni to fire its stinging cells. If something else in the tank, anything, caused the anemone to fire its stinging cells and the clown was in the way it could get zapped. I don't believe your hadoni was after your clown. I believe your clown will heal and eventually return to the anemone. Just my opinion.

I don't think it had anything to do with the Haddoni. I think someting went wrong with the maroon clown. It's plausible to say that the female maroon's immunity towards the nematocysts could have dwindled enough to where it got stung. Since maroon clownfish don't naturally host Haddoni carpets I would say something went wrong with the clown, not the carpet. Anemones tend to stay more consistent considering their potential lifespan is much greater than a clownfish. It could also be that the female is just aging. Who knows?

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