taylor t
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I have a mertens carpet, with 3 fudge glazed clowns. Had all for a few years now. For a while now, maybe the last year or so, I've noticed the clowns will rip off tentacles and eat them. Not release them, but I watch them rip one off, chew it a while, swallow, repeat. Increasing food doesn't stop this. The carpet is doing ok, but it used to have really long tentacles around the mouth. The clowns rip off so many, it never gets a chance to grow them back. The clowns spawn like clockwork every couple weeks. They eat tents every day it seems. I'm pretty sure, if I removed the clowns, the carpet would do much better, (or atleast look a lot better), but the carpet is doing ok still. It eats, never deflates, never walks, but doesn't look as good as it has in past years. I think it's the clowns eating it, as they have gotten older and larger, it's getting more and more. Is this normal? I'm thinking of getting rid of the clowns for different ones, but if I do, will this happen again with a different kind of clown? Is this normal for clowns to do to mertens in the wild, if there isn't food available? Should I be worried for the carpet? If I move these clowns to another anemone, chances are, they will eat another anemone, like a gig, right? Any opinions or thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks!