Most expensive fish eaten

[d_hartke]

Have you ever had a fish get eaten?
I had my eel come out of the live rock and grab my Foxface. The biggest mistake I made was putting a Powder Blue in that was just a little too small. After about 3 hours of being in my tank my Lionfish tried to eat him. She spit him back out. He lived for two more days.

 

[d9sccr]

I had a fuzzy dwarf that was pretty small. Much smaller than the two firefish living in HIS tank. He ate both w/in a week, then he died...grr

 

[LukFox]

It took me a while to figure out the reason my fairy wrasses were disappearing was because they were getting eaten. My miliaris moray has always been extremely peaceful, but I guess he couldn't resist small wrasses that sleep in the rocks.

The most expensive one he ate was a $90 pink margin fairy. However he also ate a Pylei which costs more than the pink margin. Luckily the Pylei was mislabled as a McCosker's flasher wrasse and I got him for $50 (I really have no idea how they made that mix up). Pylei fairies usually go for $150. If I paid THAT, I would have killed myself even more than I did. I actually witnessed him eat the Pylei. My mouth dropped to the floor, and that was the end of me trying to add fairy wrasses. But what, did he eat like 4 fairies before I finally realized what was happening? It was such a shame. I didn't expect the eel because he leaves my radiant wrasse alone, but she sleeps in the sand...

 

[reefergeorge]

I have lost two clowns and three chromis to my porc puffer. I didn't think they were small enough to eat, but I was wrong. The worst part was that the one clown nema ( female nemo) was my first sw fish I bought three years ago.

 

[nyvp]

I had a 300/g agressive with an 6 ft greensailfin moray eel. He ate many a fine dinning meals at my expense. the most expensive was a redsea broomtail wrasse that back then cost me $400

 

[tmc1313]

I had a Yellow headed moray eat my clown trigger. I thought the trigger was big enough, but I thought wrong.

 

[JustinReef]

My Stars and Stripes Puffer ate a $150 Australian Harlequin Tusk. He started nipping its tail and I should have taken the poor tusk out at that point but I left it and by the next day all that was left was bones. They had lived together for over a year with no problems. The really weird thing too is that I had just fed them and my S&S had eaten a ridiculous amount of prawn already...

 

[reefer334]

I had a 20 inch bumblebee grouper eat a 30 inch teeslatta eel,and he would try and eat a 28 inch grey bamboo shark.The eel was in his mouth for 2 days,he swallowed half let it digest then swallowed the other half.Do not ever get a Bumble bee grouper they get wat to out of hand with eating things and growth(they get like 6-8 feet and as big as a VW bug)mine was given to me I had no idea what it was until I did some research.I have s gotten rid of this fish, as it was just to crazy.

 

[crazedpuffer]

The other day I saw a snowflake eel eat a snake eel. Pretty cool yet upsetting.

 

[JB_1152]

Saw this title and just had to post a reply. It's not like I have lost fish after fish to this problem, more or less always caught it right before or during. Most expensive would probably be the 2foot Mappa Puffer which became a tank target. Everyone in the tank was getting a bite out of the tail. Especially the large clown trigger. The puffer wasn't "eaten" but the tail definatley was. Another instance like this was my Queen Trigger, over a foot now, took out the lower jaw of one of the Stars and Stripes puffers. Everything but the manidible. It all grew back but took a long time.
And a green eel has had a Red Toothed Trigger and HiFin Snapper in his life with me so far. He gets angry if he doesn't get his Hoki in the morning

 

[u418936]

I had a huge green carpet anenome that ate a school of anthias, a foxface, and a niger trigger. I was sad when I returned it to my LFS after having it for 5 years.

 

[JBrown]

My lion at my Australian Harlequin Tusk, as well as a small hippo tang

 

[Absint Reefer]

stonfish ate my maculus angel $180 poof gone

 

[MrSquid]

You guys are making me sweat over the 125 predator tank that I'm considering...

Years ago I worked at a lfs - I was unpacking a new shipment and dropped a good sized Volitan in with a gold-stripe grouper that was about 3/4 the size of the Volitan. As SOON as the Volitan hit the water the gold-stripe had it in it's mouth.

The grouper's belly was SEVERLY distended for a few days from the size of that meal, but he lived!

 

[d_hartke]

I had to get rid of my snowflake and my zebra because made a few meals out of my fish. It sounds like some others have had the same problem with their eels. There are a lot of fish that have had a more expensive meal than most of us.

 

[vezina345]

My stonefish has eaten :
1 Lunar wrasse
1 Banana wrasse
1 Miniata grouper
1 koran angel
2 snappers
1 wrasse ( unknown species )
1 foxface

I stopped adding up the prices long ago. She's still my favorite fish.

 

[socal-trading]

The worst for me was when my snowflake eel ate my fuzzy lion. It wasn't expensive but it was my favorite fish.