did my long tentacle anenome eat my yellow watchman goby

[t-byrd]

have seen no trace of him for about 10 days now.......
he was my favorite fish. about 2-1/2" long.
my long tentacle has about 10-12 inch disc.
i moved some of the rock around looking for him but no sign.

 

[t-byrd]

i do have a black brittle star (dont know species or anything)
could he be the culprit? never heard of a star that eats fish, but ive seen him reach for bits of food floating around.

 

[Tanger]

I learned the hard way that anenomes eat fish. I lost a few fish before I realized it was the anenome. Now I don't have them anymore. I guess thats what they do.......

 

[squeegykid]

Sad news T-Byrd,I have a green brittle star that ate my cleaner wrase,I didnt accually see him catch it,but the wrase was healthy the night before and when the lights came on in the morning it had become the main course

 

[squeegykid]

Sad news T-Byrd,I have a green brittle star that ate my cleaner wrase,I didnt accually see him catch it,but the wrase was healthy the night before and when the lights came on in the morning it had become the main course

 

[rlp1]

Both anemones and serpent/brittlestars eat fish.... especially slow-moving, bottom-dwelling fish. Rita

 

[rlp1]

oops.

 

[Anonymous]

T-Byrd , I have not kept the two together but do have both species. Aside from not keeping gobies and anemones together I can offer this advice. My watchman (I have a male/female pair) prior to moving tanks disspaeared for a good 2 weeks. I had some really nice tonga rock with lots of crevices in. Thinking hed crawled in and died I pulled thr rock out and looked in, couldn't see anything so I flushed some new salt water over the rock and out came the goby into the bucket. Since I moved him/her into the larger tank by themselves they are out a lot more but they will hide in the rockwork. Hope he's still alive but as previous poster said bad idea LTA and the goby.