Clown and Mandarin stealing food from rbta...

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Originally Posted by mike31154

Hmmm, I can see the clownfish getting away with grabbing food, but the mandarin should be getting stung no? How long have you had the RBTA? I can recall when my GBTA was added that it took a while for the tentacles to get really sticky and a cleaner shrimp would steal bits of Silverside from it. A few months later after it completely acclimated, coloured up and grew a bit, nothing other than my Maroons could touch it since the tentacles are too sticky & stingy. Once in a while a large Mithrax crab I have tries, but it gets stung and soon gives up.

Im not sure what the mandarin was thinking but the rbta was already mostly closed by the time I saw it sucking out the worms from it and Im guessing it didnt get stung as it went for seconds and thirds... I have only had the the rbta for about 2 weeks so it is still seems to be pretty skittish, I tried feeding it larger foods before and it would just suck in and close up.