Big Paly ate my firefish!

[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!

[BCOrchidGuy]

Don't turn your back when you've got your hand in your tank or you may end up with a stump! That is something else, I thought my old green brittle star eating damsels for breakfast was something to see but this... wow

Doug

[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.