Check this out!! (Anemone eating my Mandarin)

[Anonymous]

Forget about keeping a condy with a mandarin. I want to know who tasted their mandarin! Did you eat the whole thing or did you just lick it?

 

[dizzy]

If your planning on eating one I would suggest soaking it in vineger first or just swallowing it whole. Hope you can keep it down through, because lions, groupers, things of that nature can't.

 

[Anonymous]

most hobbyists should not attempt to keep host anemones anyway because there survival rate for three years is less than 5%.

where'd this info come from,terry b?

 

[Terry B]

Podman,
I honestly can't remember exactly where I got it from, but I can tell you that the statistics where gathered by someone well known in the hobby. It may have been Carol Bowman but I am not sure anymore (have you read her book). Perhaps someone else will be familar with it.
Terry B

 

[Robf]

I've read it too, and even participated in the poll. I believe it might have even been Joyce Wilkerson... I may be wrong. The statistics were drawn from a large number of participants. I thought the results were well-known. Maybe this was last year. It still holds true.

There are always exceptions to every rule. This is expecially true with Entamacea Quadricolor.

jm$.02

Terry, maybe you'll want to include a part about host anemones for mandarinfish in your next article

R.

 

[dizzy]

Kudos to the 5% who learn how to show the way.

 

[~sandman~]

(A few years back) I had 2 mandarins and 2 anemones (as well as live rock and other fish) in the same 55 gallon tank for a while and the anemones never ate any of the fish.