Holy Crap! Anemone Ate My Fish!

[huskysglare1]

HOLY CRAP!!!! my Rose Anemone just at a whole 3" mimic tang. I Fed the tang yesterday and it was really healthy and fat. When i feed my fish this morning, he didn't come out. I looked at the anemone i saw his tail fin. The Rose anemone was eating him whole. HOLY CRAP! my beautiful mimic tang!

The tang is VERY VERY VERY healthy!

 

[Trademark]

That sucks ,, you wouldn't happen to have any pics of that would you

 

[huskysglare1]

When i saw it, only a tail was left so i didn't take the picture. I tried pulling it out but the anemone had a good grip on it. the anemone is about 8 inches when expanded. i don't know if i should get rid of it now.

 

[Ben's Reef]

When i saw it, only a tail was left so i didn't take the picture. I tried pulling it out but the anemone had a good grip on it. the anemone is about 8 inches when expanded. i don't know if i should get rid of it now.

I am actually amused that you didn't consider the possibility when you added the fish or anemone to the tank. I mean... sticky tentacles / stinging cells / clowns the only fish that develop a relationship with them that doesn't end in someone being eaten.

I personally plan on having a 45 gallon bow front be a clown / anemone only tank. Anemones don't go anywhere near my main display with all my pretty fish and corals for the reason you posted about...

 

[hcl2195]

The tang was Very Very Very healthy. I lost a firefish goby to bubble anenome just one day after getting it.

 

[Semillon]

I'm sure the anemone thought it was Very Very Very tasty

 

[huskysglare1]

I might need to get it out. It couldn't even swallow a silverside the last time i fed it and now, it swallow a whole 3" tang. What a pitty. Will my 5" yellow tang be at risk also?

Here's what happen. The Rose anemone was in the middle of the tank yesterday. this morning it moved down into the rock cave where my Mimic Tang dwell. i didn't think anything of it at the time. when i feed my fish, i looked at the anemone and notice something yellow. a closer examination, i realized it was my MIMIC TANG! SOB!

 

[elegance coral]

Sorry about your tang.

When you mix large anemones and fish there is always a risk of losing fish. If it happens again, don't try to remove the fish. Especially by the tail. This will only damage the anemone. By the time an anemone gets a fish in its mouth, there is no saving the fish. It's dead. You might as well let the anemone have its meal.

 

[1fishkeeper]

The joys of keeping anemones. I think I have lost 2 powder blues and one powder brown in my years of keeping them. But that is a risk that Im willing to take to keep a good healthy anemone. But look at it this way you wont have to feed it for a few weeks.

 

[thelittlereef]

Sorry to hear. Been there a few times.

 

[WDLV]

No use pulling it out anyway. By the time it's in the mouth, you'd have to pump it full of atropene to counter the neurotoxin if it was even still alive.

At least it wasn't a gem tang.

 

[huskysglare1]

The joys of keeping anemones. I think I have lost 2 powder blues and one powder brown in my years of keeping them. But that is a risk that Im willing to take to keep a good healthy anemone. But look at it this way you wont have to feed it for a few weeks.

actually, it spat the fish back out. i found half of the fish on the side of the maxi jet.