Reef Fatality

Bad idea Jared.  One taste of red meat and they mutate.  You'd hate to come to the office one day and be greeted by a 10' anemone waiting to eat you.  How could you in good conscience release that into the world.

The other day I came in too feed my tank as I was on my way to work and  found  my coral banded being eaten by my button polyps.  I wish I'd had time to take a pic, but I was already running late.  For some reason they ate his head first.  Everything else was still in tact.  Of course it was a recent molt, but for a minute I wasn't sure.  It looked exactly like the shrimp.  I would have expected it to look kind of clear and see-through like from a peel and eat shrimp.  I was awfully glad to see his antennae thingys sticking up from behind another rock.

Jglover, sorry to hear of your loss.  At least you know your anemone is eating well.   (Sorry, had to try it.)

hehe...no kidding. I remember freaking out the first time my Blue Lobster shed and I thought it was a goner....until he came out to say hello as I scooped away his shell.

If he is actually gone, my condolences. I had the same thing happen a week or two ago. I bought a spider Crab (I refuse to learn latin names) and he was a big fella, so I was kinda scared he was going to eat my coral.......until one day I saw my Carpet anenome spit out the remainder of his skull!    Guess he was a little more bold than most and got too close. I have yet to see an anenome kill any of my other smaller tankmates. I can't for the world of me figure out how he fit the whole thing in his mouth

Still no sign of him I'm almost certain he's a gonner because he always sheds in the back corner of my tank and well he's gone:(