Check this out!! (Anemone eating my Mandarin)
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wtf were you doing putting a fish like that in a tank with an anemone?
That was thoughtless.
Please read ahead of time and ask compatiblity questions unless you get some thrill from taking pics of animals killing each other.
I'm biased, of course, but know enough to ask ahead of time what works with what and also to remove anemones before my dragonets get dropped in. Hell, I won't even buy dottybacks, cardinals, etc. just knowing they compete with my eventual resident mandarins.
One less spectacular animal in the world's dying reefs, but at least we get a morbid image.
Cool pic. :roll:
That was thoughtless.
Please read ahead of time and ask compatiblity questions unless you get some thrill from taking pics of animals killing each other.
I'm biased, of course, but know enough to ask ahead of time what works with what and also to remove anemones before my dragonets get dropped in. Hell, I won't even buy dottybacks, cardinals, etc. just knowing they compete with my eventual resident mandarins.
One less spectacular animal in the world's dying reefs, but at least we get a morbid image.
Cool pic. :roll:
MandarinFish":2rx8l5r5 said:
Manadarinfish, you might lighten up a bit. For all we know, the fish could have been stupid enough to sleep in the anemone- that'd just be natural selection at work. I had a mandarin in a 40g breeder with a dinner-plate sized LTA for over a year, and never had a problem with it, or a bubble tip on the opposite side of the tank. A much more mobile (than a mandarin) cleaner shrimp on the other hand was eaten with gusto by the LTA. Go figure.
That and this may have been a healthy meal for the anemone, and what more natural foodsource than that? I'm not condoning taking mandarins and placing in a anemone tank for the sole purpose of feeding the anemone, however, I have a feeling the anemone enjoyed that much better than any type of substitue we could have given it. Remember, we find it ok to feed oscars and jack dempsey's feeder goldfish or guppies, this is the same idea, only (unfortunately) a much more desireable specimen was lost. Who knows, maybe in the future we will be feeding the anemone's some sort of marine live fare (feeder shrimp maybe?).
I'd be surprised if the anenome finished eating the bitter mandarin. Looked like a small condy. I didn't see much live rock in the picture. The mandarin may have just died and ended up in the anemone by accident.
I agree with the side who thinks a healthy mandarin can live in tanks with anemones.
I agree with the side who thinks a healthy mandarin can live in tanks with anemones.
I never thought the Mandarin would end up in the mouth of the anemone, which had traveled to that spot in the corner of the tank, away from the live rock for some reason.
Lesson learned, I don't think I will keep any more Mandarins until I get a bigger tank. They are probably the coolest looking fish around too
. I guess they don't do well in smaller tanks regardless.
Lesson learned, I don't think I will keep any more Mandarins until I get a bigger tank. They are probably the coolest looking fish around too
. I guess they don't do well in smaller tanks regardless.Sorry to be a Flaming Moe.
Sorry about the Mandarin, too.
I *hate* it when I lose a fish or coral. h a t e it.
I know you didn't get the dragonet as live food. Most reefkeepers aren't the sadistic type that like watching mise get fed to pirhanas, anything get fed to an oscar, etc.
I'll make it up to you by giving you a coral someday. Maybe even a captive-bred one if I ever get that far.
Sorry about the fish loss. Just seemed you were taking delight in it. Though we all know it sucked.
Sorry about the Mandarin, too.
I *hate* it when I lose a fish or coral. h a t e it.
I know you didn't get the dragonet as live food. Most reefkeepers aren't the sadistic type that like watching mise get fed to pirhanas, anything get fed to an oscar, etc.
I'll make it up to you by giving you a coral someday. Maybe even a captive-bred one if I ever get that far.
Sorry about the fish loss. Just seemed you were taking delight in it. Though we all know it sucked.
Sounds good, MandarinFish. Looks like you're in the bay area too, great area to live, huh?
I've always wondered how it would be to go out to the bay and just grab some of the ocean water out there. I know Tullock in his book recommends you do it. I'm kind of scared about the pollutants in there(guess it's like the tap water I put in there).
I've always wondered how it would be to go out to the bay and just grab some of the ocean water out there. I know Tullock in his book recommends you do it. I'm kind of scared about the pollutants in there(guess it's like the tap water I put in there).
with the refinieries in Richmond, etc. I would never pull water from the Bay.
Up or down the coast maybe...
next time I head down to LA I will stop by the ocean and get some water once I'm away from cities. May be risky even still.
Cryingf shame we don't live in Hawaii, water wise.
Up or down the coast maybe...
next time I head down to LA I will stop by the ocean and get some water once I'm away from cities. May be risky even still.
Cryingf shame we don't live in Hawaii, water wise.
I doubt the anemone went for the kill.
Its more likely the mandarin already konked out and got swept by the flow, down the sand slope and into the innocent anemone. Case of a mistaken murderer often seen in movie plot
Looking closer, its more like the anemone trying to nurse the mandarin back to life! Its administering MTM resusitation!!
Its more likely the mandarin already konked out and got swept by the flow, down the sand slope and into the innocent anemone. Case of a mistaken murderer often seen in movie plot
Looking closer, its more like the anemone trying to nurse the mandarin back to life! Its administering MTM resusitation!!
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