Aptasia

Mike, I went to buy a pepermint shrimp and my flame hawk fish ate him. They new I had a flame hawk fish to. They do not refund on salt water fish either. I am not even sure if this will hurt my flame now cause i still see part of the shrimp in his mouth. I cannot believe this. They charged me 11 bucks for it and he got eaten in about 2 hours of putting him in the tank. See why I am getting sick of the fish part.

Well the guy at the store bragged about how he has been doing this for 20 years . Then he should had known to tell me that i cannot get the shrimp cause of the hawkfish he new i had and sold me. I was talking about the hawkfish when he was getting the shrimp to. Yes he charged me 10.99 for one. I will call him tuesday. I tried today he is out. Also I do not know the cause but my hawk fish keeps getting ick. A lot of white spots so i have the live rock, corals so on so i do not want to put meds in the tank so i did the fresh water dip. It cleared them up but they all came back. I am not sure how i would of gotten ick in my new tank or if stress just brought it on. Anyway so since they came back really bad i did the dip again for a long time. I think almost to long cause when i put him back in the salt tank i thought i killed him. He dropped on his back. But he is back now acting pretty normal with no ick at all. So this is a lot of trouble ... I see why many do not do salt water but i love the look so much more. If my hawk dies i think i will stick to live rock only. also when you asked me about the blue anemone in my tank and showed me a pic, i said yes that is what they are, but you did not say what they are of if bad. The guy at the store said he felt those were ok. Rose

Edited by palmbeauties - January 11 2009 at 4:07pm

yes but when you go on line as i did last night when he ate it it says it is one of there foods. So i would assume most would eat them. The point is if he new so much he should of then at least warn me that there is a chance. Thank you for your help.

Sorry Rose. I believe it is a coralimorpharian. Possibly a warm water relative of the Strawberry Anemone. I've had them for a long time and they seem benign.

No that shrimp was big and this hawkfish ate it anyway. I keep saying i have no idea how he opened his mouth enought to get it in. He was about 1 in long. It took him an entire day just to not see the shrimps tenticles anymore sticking out of his mouth.

Hi with all do respect i hear what you are also saying, however this guy is the store owner selling the fish so if someone should had known when a customer comes in what to advice and not and he does not he is wrong. It is my 11 bucks he wont care about now. He is the one that bragged to me about his 20 years of knowledge. That is why i feel he shoud had known this when he his the one that also sold me the hawkfish. Thanks

huh i think it let me upload two. One shows my hawk fish and all my live rock and a few corals. The other one shows my flow of water swirling on the top. I have three air pumps in there. Two at the top put in after picture taken and one at the bottom that shoots up.

Hey Mike, I wrote a few days ago and uploaded the pics but never heard back.