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12-08-2006, 04:01 PM
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Hippo playing with fire!!!!
Ok, well not exactly
 My hippo keeps swiming SOOOOOOO close to my RBTA!!!! I am talking 1/2 cm or even less from the nearest tentacle! It has gotten so bad, that I keep watching my tank just so that I know when to get up and stick my fingers inside the BTA's mouth to fish the tang out!!! I don't look at my tank any more, I only look at the tang and "wait" for him to be caught by the RBTA's tentacles!!!!!! Anybody has this behavior in their tanks? Do tangs know that BTA = DEATH? My hippo is only 1.5" long, and I got him when he was less than 1" long, so I have a feeling that he never saw a BTA before and doesn't know that it will eat him if it catches him... any thoughts? 
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12-08-2006, 04:19 PM
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. My reagal used to do the same thing with my seabae. Only, he actually did touch it from time to time. I think he though he was part clown fish.
 BTA's aren't really "fish eaters" at the size most of us keeps them. The tang will probably feel a sting and move away, and if yours is a dumb as mine it will keep getting stung until it learns.
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12-09-2006, 03:20 PM
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I agree. I have had BTAs for a long time and I've had more than one fish get a little too close...but none have ever been eaten. The only exception to this is of course if you have paid more than $100 for a fish...then expect it to be the one that gets eaten (it that whole "the more expensive the fish the greater something stupid will happen to it" rule).
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12-09-2006, 10:43 PM
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No way a BTA can take down a healthy tang .. I wouldn't sweat it. BTA's are opportunistic scavengers, not predators. Carpets are the worst for taking down fish, they're just too sticky.
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12-09-2006, 10:52 PM
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12-11-2006, 04:18 PM
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Thanks guys...
I noticed that he is not getting too close any more, may be he got stung a time or two and now is backing off  But it was definately an emotional roller-coaster for a while there (for me at least) lol
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