My Green Carpet Ate one of my Clowns!

[JDL1000]

I've had a green carpet for about 3 months. I had some black clowns that never went to it.
Well today I traded the black clowns for some gold stripe maroon clowns. The clowns were playing over the carpet and like a fast trap the carpet closed on one of them and sucked it down.
I tried to open the carpet with my hand but it was too sticky. So I moved the rock it had its foot under and started fanning water at it hoping it would open.
Well finally it did open and the clown came flying out. The clown is swimming at the top of the tank slowly (maybe in shock) and is covered in what looks like white mucus.
I feed the carpet 1 siverside every 2 days.
I'm guessing the carpet wasn't use to clowns and made a mistake.
The clown was in the carpet for a few minutes before the carpet opened.
What happened? Should I be worried about this carpet?

 

[jgs107]

yea i had a carpet eat my blue jaw trigger...needless to say its not in my tank anymore

 

[JDL1000]

When I went to bed last night the clown seemed to be getting better. When I woke up this morning the clown was missing. The carpet is going back to the LFS tomorrow. This is not the first fish I've lost to the carpet. It's getting too expensive to keep.

 

[reefdogg1107]

Carpet anemones are fish eaters for sure they will eat any fish that will get close enough, If the clowns are hosting the anemone i'm not sure why he would try to eat one. Maybe it was a mistake on his part. If you are worried about loosing fish a carpet is not the anemone for you. Maybe a long LTA, or a Bta

 

[JDL1000]

The other clown is hosting the Rose bta I have. He is doing great.

I know the carpet might eat fish. I thought the clowns do not have any problems?

 

[andygb54303]

that sucks...

 

[andygb54303]

my clowns host in my condy and I think the male was recently stung

 

[volcom69]

I put a mandrian in my tank last night and in 5 min after i put him in the tank he swam right into my carpet and well that was the end of the mandrian. There went 20 dollars down the drain lol.

 

[inachu]

I neevr knew a carpet could move so fast to catch a fish.

would be nice to see a video of one moving eating its victim.

 

[bassist6108]

didn't anybody do research on their anemone before purchase? Carpets eat fish. That's the bottom line. Literally no fish is safe, even clowns.

 

[JDL1000]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12266787#post12266787 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bassist6108
didn't anybody do research on their anemone before purchase? Carpets eat fish. That's the bottom line. Literally no fish is safe, even clowns.

I knew the carpets potential to eat fish before I bought it. To date I've never found anything saying they would eat the clowns. Everything I've read about carpets says they host clowns not eat them.
If you know of a site that says they eat clowns please point me in that direction. I'd like to read about it.

 

[bassist6108]

Except you didn't say your clowns were hosting. You added new clowns and one was eaten on the same day. Doesn't sound like the carpet ate its clown. Sounds like it ate a fish.

 

[bassist6108]

And, per your request:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/carpetanemones.htm

Specifically, note: "ALL Carpet Anemone species are fish eaters... and MAY consume novel Clowns"

 

[JDL1000]

Thanks.. I thought I had researched it enough? But after reading this article you found it seems I need to search more for info.

I have two friends with carpets and both were hosting their clownfish the same day. So it surprised me when my carpet ate one of the my new clowns. I think that I might just have a more aggressive carpet than my friends.