Tennyson
Active member
I was looking through my past tank pictures and ran over these of my old Haitin Reef Anemone and my old Scooter Blenny. I returned the Haitin Reef Anemone because it got too big, and the scooter blenny was eaten by it. The scooter blenny was already dying because it was running out of food, and it got caught by my anemone when it was weak and dying.
I tried to stop my anemone from swallowing it, but too many tentacles were around it, and trying to save it would mean cutting my anemonies tentacles, and the fish was dying anyway, so I figured I'd take some cool, but sad pics of my scooter blennies grusome death.
Just a warning, they are not exactly 100% safe with fish or anything, they're able to catch and eat them live.
The anemone begins closing over the fish.
Sorry, I had to leave that day and wasn't able to get a picture of the anemone actually swallowing it, but I came back and the anemone couldn't even fit in that shell which it moved into as its home. It doubled in size and you could just a hint of black inside which was the scooter blenny being digested.
I think the whole thing took about 4-5 hours, for the anemone to completely eat and swallow the live scooter blenny. It was pretty hard to watch, but made a great show and tell for biology class last year.
I tried to stop my anemone from swallowing it, but too many tentacles were around it, and trying to save it would mean cutting my anemonies tentacles, and the fish was dying anyway, so I figured I'd take some cool, but sad pics of my scooter blennies grusome death.
Just a warning, they are not exactly 100% safe with fish or anything, they're able to catch and eat them live.
The anemone begins closing over the fish.
Sorry, I had to leave that day and wasn't able to get a picture of the anemone actually swallowing it, but I came back and the anemone couldn't even fit in that shell which it moved into as its home. It doubled in size and you could just a hint of black inside which was the scooter blenny being digested.
I think the whole thing took about 4-5 hours, for the anemone to completely eat and swallow the live scooter blenny. It was pretty hard to watch, but made a great show and tell for biology class last year.
