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Maroon Clown Ate an Anemone? (1 Viewer)

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Attydelvalle

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I have an elegance with a small polyp (?) that looked like an anemone was residing on it. I say polyp cause it was a size of a dime. The anemone moved around depending on how the elegance was positioned. Today, the elegance was all the way down the sand. So, I moved it. Once moved, I noticed that the anemone was on the sand. I was debating what to do with it. I figured I’d move it close to one of the rocks so it will not be on the elegance anymore.

The maroon clown started dusting the sand around the anemone and then she picked it up with her mouth. It didn’t go in fully in her mouth. She took it to the back of the tank. A few seconds later, she came back smacking her mouth with no anemone in sight. Did she EAT it?!?! Is that even possible? I’m hoping she just moved it to the back. What do you guys think?
 

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It's hard to say. Clowns are pretty weird. I've seen my maroon bite pieces of anemone tentacle, but I'm not sure if she ate them. My Clarkii clown likes to yank pretty hard on one of my gorgonians, but doesn't seem to cause it any real harm. My guess is your clown was just doing some aquascaping, but I don't know for sure.
 
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