Killer nems! (1 Viewer)

[Stickboy97]

So has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Come in to work today, checking on my tanks and notice my new small (3") juv achilles isn't swimming around the tank. Start removing rocks becuase I can't find him and BAM! I see this! $25 nem chomping on a $300 fish! I'm gutted!

 

[webster1234]

yeow! What kind of nem is it?

 

[SCUBAFreaky]

Ah man, that is heartbreaking to say the least!!

 

[frankc]

Sorry to hear that. A long time ago I had a carpet nem that killed a couple damsels and cardinals, but nothing on this scale.

 

[steveb]

Wow that sucks.

 

[Stickboy97]

Just your everyday RBTA. I have some baby pajama cardinals ($10 each) that this SOB could have eaten, but noooooo!

 

[Tstew32]

Man sorry to hear this stinks


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[Stickboy97]

@Galactic Coral reached out & offered to replace the tang at cost today! Gotta give mad props to those guys! They didn't have to do that!

 

[frankc]

@Galactic Coral reached out & offered to replace the tang at cost today! Gotta give mad props to those guys! They didn't have to do that!

Wow, that's awesome.

 

[webster1234]

Are you sure the tang didn't die first and then drift into the nem? I've seen Long Tentacle nems eat fish but never a regular BTA or Sherman. Although they do have a sting.

 

[Tstew32]

@Galactic Coral reached out & offered to replace the tang at cost today! Gotta give mad props to those guys! They didn't have to do that!

Good customer service


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[Tenny]

Are you sure the tang didn't die first and then drift into the nem? I've seen Long Tentacle nems eat fish but never a regular BTA or Sherman. Although they do have a sting.

I'd have money on this is what happened.

I've had fish die from other causes, and I delay on pulling them out for 15-30 minutes only to find them in the grasps of the anemone. Of course it's possible the fish got stung from the anemone, and then died from the stings over a time period... and then eventually floating into the anemone.

Very few anemone's are actually powerful/sticky enough to "grab" fish, and of them I feel the carpets are the most dangerous.

 

[Stickboy97]

Well I know at around 6pm last night when the lights went out he had just eaten and was swimming and acting fine. Looked perfectly healthy. He'd been at Galactic for about 2 weeks eating. What happened between 6pm and 9am I have no idea. I do know the nem was at the back of the tank under a shelf type rock... so do fish sleep? Could he have drifted into the nem... no idea. This is a rather large RBTA as you can see from the pic. I have 6 types of nems in 3 different tanks and I've never had one eat a fish, but it doesn't mean they can't.

 

[webster1234]

Fish sleep yes so I guess he could have been sleeping in the rocks like they commonly do so they don't get eaten and he might have drifted into the nem. Still hard to believe the nem got him but if the nem has been in the back under a rock and not getting much light for photosynthesis, maybe it was hungry and did something it wouldn't normally do.

 

[Stickboy97]

Yeah, its odd. This tank has been sitting with no fish since hurricane Laura. It has several nems, zoas, SPS, tons of xenia & some mushrooms. Its been doing fine but there hasn't been anything in it to really feed the nems. Maybe it was very hungry. Either way, the nems got pulled at put in another tank.

 

[Reefahholic]

I've never seen a BTA do that. Only Haddoni or Gigantea. He must have been seriously hungry.