Big Paly ate my firefish!

[albert_dao]

I don't know exactly how to state this in an ethical manner, but that is FRICKING AWESOME!

[Borderjumper]

I had feed the fish only 1/2 an hour before I saw this. I HAD 7 firefish, and all 7 were out and actively eating. I keep a good eye on my tank.. and none of the fish acted sick. I still look at the picture and just shake my head.

[Kabong]

Off topic, But
7 Firefish in your tank?
While firefish will hang together when young.
Once they sexually mature they chose a mate and become Territorial.
You may be in for a battle Royal.

[Beverly]

Wow! Whether or not the fish was healthy is beside the point, in a manner of speaking. A paly that's large and capable enough to eat a firefish is amazing.

[Delphinus]

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Wow! Whether or not the fish was healthy is beside the point, in a manner of speaking. A paly that's large and capable enough to eat a firefish is amazing.

Its a big one.. the sun coral in the background is pretty good sized.. and this Paly is everybit as big. The 5 or 6 polyps of the origanal frag are huge.. brown with a bright almost neon throat and mouth. The newer polyps aren't as big yet, but they are still growing. This Paly has the strongest feeding reflex of anything in my tank. Last week we watched it eat a snail!

Kabong.. I did major research on firefish before I bought them and like many things in this hobby got tons of conflicting advice. The general consensius was that you could keep 1... or you could keep a large group together.. but not 2 or 3. I bought 8... 1 carpet surfed shortly after .. and the 7 have been happily co-habitating in one large rock ( no clue on how they al fit in such a little hole) for months now. Time will tell I guess. If they start to bicker.. most of them will go looking for new homes.

[Moogled]

Borderjumper, 7 Firefish together sounds like a pretty sweet tank. Would you mind posting a full tank shot?

As for "healthy fish rarely die in strange ways", that's something that I disagree with. Alot of reefers on the board have flourishing tanks and to say that there's no way a healthy fish could be killed and eaten by a plate coral/anemone/paly is kind of misleading.

I think there's more than just the general "health" of the fish that decides the outcome.

[mixixe]

Wow! Sad for the firefish but pretty cool for the paly. SW animals are so strange!!! I hope the paly's dont get too hungry!

[Kabong]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

Kabong.. I did major research on firefish before I bought them and like many things in this hobby got tons of conflicting advice. The general consensius was that you could keep 1... or you could keep a large group together.. but not 2 or 3. I bought 8... 1 carpet surfed shortly after .. and the 7 have been happily co-habitating in one large rock ( no clue on how they al fit in such a little hole) for months now. Time will tell I guess. If they start to bicker.. most of them will go looking for new homes.

Hopefully It will work out for you.
If i recall correctly a male will take more then one mate.
So maybe you'll have 6 female's and one very tierd and happy male LOL.
You are right though you can never tell.
heres my mated pair that's not supposed to be done.


I should say though that the purple killed its first prespective mate in under 24hrs.

[muck]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

I don't know exactly how to state this in an ethical manner, but that is FRICKING AWESOME!

Im with you on this one Albert!!
Time to start spot feeding it guppies..