killer aptasia
 

I have a couple of aptasia growing in my frag tank and wasn't too concerned about them although I did add a couple of peppermint shrimp earlier this week. Anyway I was tinkering in my frag tank and noticed one of my new blue eyed cardinals stuck in an aptasia face first and being made a meal of. Two things: 1) I didn't realize that aptasia were that aggressive and 2) cardinals were that stupid. I pulled it out and fed it to my GBTA who is more deserving of a nice meal.
Here's some pictures.
Fish being made a meal of
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...iaeatsfish.jpg

fish dead after the aptasia incident
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...adcardinal.jpg

whoah.
thats insane.

damn! that's nasty!

don't you just hate those things...

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Holy crap. That must be one stupid fish.. I can see being eaten by a carpet of a ritteri but aptasia?

WOW. i just got rid of 2 aptaisia that big yesterday. glad i did now. ones already coming back thou.

that's terrible - i'm just wondering, did the aptasia actually kill the fish, or was the fish already dead and the aptasia was feeding on it as it floated by?? Did you have any problems with an aptasia outbreak because i started off with 1 and they started to spread quite rapidly and I tried different methods of getting rid of them. Either way, i didn't realize that an aptasia could kill a fish - quite interesting.....

Do you guys use kalkwasser in a paste, or Joe's Juice?

joe's juice.

the little ones i let pass once in a while but those big ones are just menaces. never in heck did i think it could possible kill a fish, just insane:evil:and evil at that

i use joes it can be a pain but in two blasts all is usually gone.

I think most anemones will eat a fish it it wanders by...they are oportunistic feeders. I'm not sure on all of them, but most are.

I have had no luck with joe's juice I use kalkwasser in a paste