My dendro ate my clownfish

[Zoa Junkie]

I get off work this morning after doing my night shift. I take a look at my tank before I go to bed and I noticed one of my dendro looked extra big. I turn on the tank light and to my surprise, my clown is halfway inside the mouth of my dendro! I wonder if my clown was "wondering" around while it was asleep and then got stung by my dendro which then became dinner.

 

[mrs sexycorals]

Awe :-(. Poor thing! I didn't know dendros can do that!

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[_Alex_]

Wow crazy!


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[Wesley42079]

Amazing.

I too didn't think that dendro's had the capability of eating fish.

RIP clownfish.

 

[_Alex_]

Man makes me wonder if the sun corals Im getting will do it. My clowns like to host with everything!!


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[xthunderx]

Perhaps clown died and was floating by and was caught? Sorry for your loss.

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[Jlobes]

Thats crazy!! i always wondered about those "missing" fish. How does a fish go missing? ^^^ thats how!!

I actually just had a fish "disappear" two day ago. Almost certain, it was the GIANT fungia. Although I did not actually see the fish in the coral, many signs point that direction

 

[Singlefin]

A full silverside got away from an rbta during feeding and i found it halfway in the mouth of my dendro. It ate the whole thing. It got really big.

 

[CherryCorals Verified Sponsor]

Healthy dendro's are really quite sticky, I could see one eating any small fish that didn't have a ton of "fight" in them.

 

[RavePartyReef]

Clowns can be pretty nosy and not understand other animals will indeed eat them if given the opportunity. I've had a carpet anemone once and it ate two of my clowns...in 3 days spat their bones in a pile right next to itself. The clown here probably thought the dendro was an anemone...