carpet anemone and mandarin

[ChrisfromBrick]

Do I have to worry about the carpet (that I got with my tank- not by choice) eating my mandarin? I read somewhere that mandarins have some kind of slime layer that keeps away predators.

Clowns love him but he’s slowly moving around. I don’t have a ton of corals but will promptly get him out of there if he kills my livestocks.

 

[Lavey29]

Fish know who the predators are and are not.

 

[exnisstech]

I've lost several fish to a carpet in my 180g including a fox face, powder blue and a picaso trigger. I think something caused them to dart into the nem. Two died from stings covering their body. One was devoured and the skeleton spit out. That said I have a large blue haddoni in a reefer 170 and the possum wrasse and coral beauty have been fine for almost a year. I have a clarkii hosting in the nem so that may help. I think a mandarin will be ok because they are not really darty and don't spend time free swimming but there's always a risk I think

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

I've lost several fish to a carpet in my 180g including a fox face, powder blue and a picaso trigger. I think something caused them to dart into the nem. Two died from stings covering their body. One was devoured and the skeleton spit out. That said I have a large blue haddoni in a reefer 170 and the possum wrasse and coral beauty have been fine for almost a year. I have a clarkii hosting in the nem so that may help. I think a mandarin will be ok because they are not really darty and don't spend time free swimming but there's always a risk I think

thanks, yea the previous owner made a big mistake of adding a haddoni to a 69g tank!

 

[PharmrJohn]

One was devoured and the skeleton spit out.

Intense man.

 

[justforreef]

Intense man.

Hi, i just want to share my little experience, related with carpet anemone.
I have a 30 gallon tank and a white carpet anemone, about 30cm. Carpet start moving around 10 days after i bought it. At first, when anemone was in one place (in a corner specifically, without occupying a lot of space in the tank), blue tang was ok. After the anemone started moving around. The result is that tang(a juvenile small one) now is dead. So i assume that, either was stinged by anemone and after that was weak and finally passed away, or because of the movement of the anemone, tang was stressed, so its immune system weakened and affected by ich.
I just writing it, to mention that carpet anemone in a small tank especially may stress fishes.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

Hi, i just want to share my little experience, related with carpet anemone.
I have a 30 gallon tank and a white carpet anemone, about 30cm. Carpet start moving around 10 days after i bought it. At first, when anemone was in one place (in a corner specifically, without occupying a lot of space in the tank), blue tang was ok. After the anemone started moving around. The result is that tang(a juvenile small one) now is dead. So i assume that, either was stinged by anemone and after that was weak and finally passed away, or because of the movement of the anemone, tang was stressed, so its immune system weakened and affected by ich.
I just writing it, to mention that carpet anemone in a small tank especially may stress fishes.

do yourself a favor and get that carpet out asap. They are for nem only tanks and are very dangerous

 

[Uncle99]

Carpets are just viscous.
Will take anything it can touch.