Aiptasia VS Flower Anemones

[RodsRockFlowers]

I'll be uploading photos soon, to many of you this may sound like a fairytale.
My rock anemones aren't showing signs of irritation from aiptasia. In fact I witnessed one of my toxic green nems make contact with a small aiptasia in my sand bed. It pulled it off of the sand and ate it before I had a chance to remove it. Today it looks unaffected and normal? I'm baffled is this a new discovery lol

 

[Mastiffsrule]

@Ron Reefman may be able to answer this one

 

[Ron Reefman]

I'm not surprised. But then I have never seen it happen either. But RFAs are quite hardy. I'm surprised it picked the aiptasia as most RFAs need to have the food... OK, potential food, almost delivered to their tentacles. Next time I find an aiptaia in my tank I'll try feeding it to a RFA and see how it does. But then I haven't seen an aiptasia in my tank in months!

 

[RodsRockFlowers]

I'm not surprised. But then I have never seen it happen either. But RFAs are quite hardy. I'm surprised it picked the aiptasia as most RFAs need to have the food... OK, potential food, almost delivered to their tentacles. Next time I find an aiptaia in my tank I'll try feeding it to a RFA and see how it does. But then I haven't seen an aiptasia in my tank in months!

I've successfully fed 3 small ones to this one toxic green nem. It could be spitting them out when I'm not observing and the flow is carrying them elsewhere, but again no damage or intimation to my rock nems.