The lost fish to anemone club, How did it happen

[Mudbeaver]

Well it a somber day for me i lost my first fish to my nem today. A brush with death it was nematocyst got the best of him while i was gone for a few hours. My newly aquired clowns may have had a "hand" in this as they are known to coerce other fish into a trap, notice the nem's mantel , very high upon the glass .

One bad turn, and its touchdown. I took a few hours for him to die, he first lied on his side and try to swim it off but in the end . The other fishes seem to know he was dying they were swiming close and very slowly, very creepy. i had to pick him up this morning behing the rockwork, i finally gave him to the nem , her prize...saved me a few frozen fish for the week because feeding her every other day i decided not to feed her this week, she got her lot for the week now.

Picture before the lights on, natural light, Purple Saddleback , Stichodactyla haddoni below with white lights only and Amphiprion clarkii;

So the question is how many fish did you loose so far with you nem and how did it happened?

Do you feed your dead fish to your nem too?

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[ocellaris123]

I have lost 1 yellow tang, and 2 flameback angels to my blue haddonis when I kept that species.

 

[asudavew]

Lost a lawnmower blenny to green hadonni

 

[mnchartier]

I lost Royal Gramma, Hectors goby, and 2 female lyretail anthia to a haddoni

 

[milto29]

I have lost a Pajama Cardinal,Royal Gramma and a Green Chromis aswell.

 

[OrionN]

My tank is a death trap for certain species of fish.

 

[Pastey]

2 pyramid butterfly
4 lyretails
2 firefish

 

[marc price]

S. haddoni -

1, large Powder Blue Tang - same fate as the OP's yellow.

at least 1 (i remember buying 4, can't recall how many were eaten), Red Sea Eight Lined Flasher wrasse - badgered into the haddoni by it's resident polymnus clown.

at least 1 Chirrhilabrus rubripinnis, (prob more), same notes as above wrasse.

Interestingly, all of my orchid dottyback's P. fridmani instinctively knew not to get snagged, swimming under, over, around and thru!

 

[tassod]

i have 4 haddoni's and 1 Gig in my tank and 17 fish. I have one confirmed death of a blue hippo tang (got eaten as soon as he was introduced in the tank from QT) and 1 unconfirmed but likely death of a Flame angel (also as soon as he was introduced, he swan into the direction of my large red haddoni and never saw him again.) Here's a pic of my purple haddoni digesting my blue hippo

 

[Merfin70]

My gig has taken 2 blue chromis, flame angel, coral beauty and 2 flasher wrasse. I haven't added a new fish in a year. Either they do something stupid like dive bomb directly into the nem within 5 minutes or when I feed they get careless in their 1st week.

The one that amazes me is my yellow tang that will dart around like a spas, getting millimeters from the hem but just barely out of reach.

 

[Jemhidiah]

Just lost a yellow eye kole tang sometime last night after lights off, got home today after work and he was already fully digested and bones being expelled.

 

[clorox]

Lost my beloved tailspot blenny 2 or 3 days ago to my bottomless pit S.Haddoni.
Oh, and about a dozen turbo snails.

 

[tonymission]

Note to self: don't buy a haddoni

 

[Mudbeaver]

Lost my beloved tailspot blenny 2 or 3 days ago to my bottomless pit S.Haddoni.
Oh, and about a dozen turbo snails.

They eat snails???

 

[OrionN]

They eat everything. Here is my Haddoni ate a huge crab. This rock crab come with my LR fromCorpus Christi Bay. He was about 1.5 inches across on the body. The fore part of the claw was about 1 inches. I saw him in my tank and cannot catch him out. He is no more. Here is my Haddoni spit up the remain of the crab.

 

[BlueViper]

I have only lost a snail and that was my fault. I was cleaning the glass and bumped the snail. He fell and dropped right onto my Haddoni. Before I could reach in, the Haddoni had closed up around him.

 

[marc price]

They eat snails???

My H. crispa sebae anemone ate a rock urchin. I had that rock urchin for a few years, it was a hitchhiker at a small size with a test not much larger then a BB. When the sebae anemone ate it, it's test had grown to the size of a golf ball!