RFA attempted to eat my seahorse!!!

[Saltwater2370]

I purchased a rock flower anemone about a month ago and he has quadrupled in size because I feed 3 times a day (seahorse tank). Today when I walked by my tank, my smaller seahorse was head first in the RFA and I was told these were safe for seahorses. The RFA had used his sticky tentacles and was pulling him into the center and trying to eat him! So I quickly grabbed the seahorse out of the RFA and everything has been fine but it sent me wondering if I should give the RFA to my fionce for his tank instead or keep it. Maybe it was just a rare event as I am not sure now. All thoughts are appreciated, and thanks in advance!

 

[locito277]

They sting and eat the ponies

 

[Saltwater2370]

Ok, glad I saved that little guy. Guess I’ll re-home my RFA. We have a lot of tanks so that’s not a problem at all. It was my first RFA ever and I really enjoy watching it grow and feeding it because my fionce has several of those and I think they are beautiful. But the tank is for seahorses so I’d rather keep them safe. Thank you

 

[mfinn]

They will eat any fish they can grab and hang on to.

 

[Redemptioner]

Probs should not have anything with nematocytes in a tank with poney's.....

 

[Weasel1960]

Suggest you go to https://seahorsesavvy.com/ and read up on do’s and dont’s. Alyssa has all kinds of helpful info.

 

[Ryebreadiest]

They will eat any fish they can grab and hang on to.

To be fair to RFAs, that’s very few fish.

 

[Devaji]

I love RFA too! but in a SH tank nope. who told you the where safe?

PS beautiful tank! can we get a FTS?

 

[Tired]

RFAs are safe with most fish, but not with seahorses. Seahorses are just too ill-equipped to escape.

If you want to keep it, you could hang a plastic breeder box in the tank, add some rocks and bits of stuff to the box, and put the RFA in that. Then the seahorses can't get to it and get stung.