Trachyphyllia Killed My Mandarine

[docvin]

Just witnessed my trachyphyllia kill my mandarine:cry:. It then tried to engulf it but couldn't do it. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[knucklehead]

sure it wasnt already dead?

 

[wicked demon]

+1, wierd.

 

[ilovereef]

+1 sure it wasn't dead?

 

[subielover]

I doubt it could kill a healthy fish, then again I have seen some crazy things happen in reef tanks.

 

[akabryanhall]

I would imagine it went like this
Died-->Drifted-->Landed-->Swallowed

 

[thomasp]

I had an open brain coral eat a cleaner shrimp last month. The shrimp was fine and when I got up in the night for water I looked in the tank and the brain was digesting the bottom half of a live shrimp. By morning the my nassarius snails jumped on and eat the head end. It would have been a great shrimp horror movie.

 

[minirex4777]

mandarins are slow and thus could get caught in a carpet or something but i have a trac a foot across and it could swallow a tang if it wanted but has never eaten my mandarins and also my fish like my flame wrasse love diving into the side of the track and rubbing against it.ive also seen this behavior wiyh large acans.They get parasites off by using the stickyness of the coral.neat huh? anyway i agree it was dead!!

 

[Myteemouse]

I've seen a pic of a RIYZO with an Angler in its mouth and in the anglers mouth was a small Mandarin.

 

[returnofsid]

I've seen a pic of a RIYZO with an Angler in its mouth and in the anglers mouth was a small Mandarin.

I can attest to this, as I saw the same pictures, for a very reputable source!! Hiya Adam!

I'd still suggest that in this case, the Mandarin was most likely dead and drifted into or near enough to the Trachy, to get snagged.