Crazy Rainbow Echinata eating fish....

[Mr Cob]

Well, I read just yesterday about Karin's eating stuff up and today I find my Lieutenant Tang being taken advantage of as a meal!

Argh!!!!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4704697569_de9e1c4102.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1279/4705351318_20a528c93e_b.jpg

[kkiel02]

WOW! Took me awhile to find it but thats crazy. Do you think he died then the acan starting eating him?

[Europhyllia]

WHAT!?
That's crazy!!!
I have really like the rainbow echinata a lot but was shocked how an inconspicuous small, flat frag could reach so far and engulf another coral so much.
Wow eating fish is not allowed.
Might have to wait for my rainbow to look better and then trade it on.

[Europhyllia]

and wow I really, really love that war coral. what is the full name of it and does it eat fish too? I must have one!
RIP little sargeant

[joelb]

is that??... RAINBOW!! why are you eating his fish!? sorry Rob :innocent2:

[Mr Cob]

WOW! Took me awhile to find it but thats crazy. Do you think he died then the acan starting eating him?

Yeah, thought it would be fun to not point it out. I'm not sure what to think...the tang was happy and looking great yesterday afternoon and then while I was feeding in the evening he wasn't trying to nip my fingers off...lol, so my wife and I started wondering where he was.

We spent about 30 minutes trying to find him. I didn't see him until I searched "top-down". I was so surprised to see my tang being eaten by about four different heads from the echinata. When other fish have passed in my tank they have ALL ended up in the back behind my tunnels so this scenario is a little different. But who knows. Just glad I found him and have some closure.

Any thoughts out there on the echinata being able to catch a healthy fish?




and wow I really, really love that war coral. what is the full name of it and does it eat fish too? I must have one!
RIP little sargeant

The war coral is one of my favorites along with the Rainbow Echinata....starting to wonder if it has been responsible for other fish related deaths in my tank or maybe it was just being an opportunist. My war coral is Tyree. Tyree War Coral: (Favites Pentagona)

http://www.reeffarmers.com/auctionedwarcoral.htm

Quote from link:
"The name 'War Coral' is simply based on the species name of pentagona and the Blood Red main pigmentation of the coral."


When deciding what stays in the tank when battles break out, the more valuable ends up winning my heart over...but I kind of have a rule against eating tangs! I really hate to part with the echinata though. Going to search online for similar stories.

[Mr Cob]

is that??... RAINBOW!! why are you eating his fish!? sorry Rob :innocent2:


Yeah, that's RAINBOW! Joel, you are raising up fighters man. By far one of my favorite pieces from you....but this is unacceptable. LOL!

[Europhyllia]

Like the coral version of Audrey...

[ErikH]

WOWO!

Feed me seymour?

That's nuts. Sorry you lost your fisher, but that is a very interesting pic. I doubt the fish was healthy, unless it tried to sleep there and got taken in the night.

[Kristy]

Whoa! That had to be an opportunistic feeding. No way a healthy tang wouldn't just turn tail and swim away on any coral!

Rob, your tank is looking great, by the way...

[Mr Cob]

Thanks, Kristy and Erik. I never played around with topdown shots before. I might have to take some time to try and get some cool shots.

I don't know how to explain my tang being fine during the afternoon and then several hours later he's dead. Seriously. I stare at my fish and coral all the time...when something goes wrong I'm on top of it and know about it pretty quickly. Now if it was a couple of days or something and I found him then I might think the tang's health could have declined....but how do you explain a healthy fish two hours before this?

Oh...let's not forget that I have all the "NO WAY" incidents....

-Purple Tang eating acans (I saw him...several times, I had to tear the entire tank down to get him because he hid in my tunnels....I actually had to put a K4 in the tunnel and a net on the other end....and believe it or not it took almost an hour for him to grow tired of swimming against the current)

-Cleaner Wrasse eating clams!!!! (Yep, also witnessed it, go ahead say; "No Way" again....I say it all the time with my tank)

shelter for the clams from the lame cleaner wrasse:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4465939409_be9a00263a.jpg


-Carpet Anemone ate my scopas tang (came home and my large HEALTHY scopas was bottum up in the anemone's mouth, it took over three hours to get the anemone out! His base was under 4" of sand and about 3 or 4 inches under my rock work! I had 4 or more missing fish in the few months that carpet was in my care)

-Coral Beauty eating clams (ok...little more common here...I should have known better)

-Quad of Square Anthias fighting until they were all dead (craaaazy)

-Hydroids of some sort eating my GBTA clone...(yep...I posted pics back in the day too, I still have them and occasionally they catch small frogspawn tents or polyps)

here...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4408239223_d9cd16d08a.jpg


See....get's crazy in my tank!

Anyways.....just another $60 and a day of reefkeeping. lol


And...in memory of my little budyy:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3496/4568958873_280a7328d8.jpg

[Europhyllia]

Rob, how about I give you a couple of sheets of frozen and you try actually feeding your critters a bit?


j/k!

[Mr Cob]

Rob, how about I give you a couple of sheets of frozen and you try actually feeding your critters a bit?


j/k!

Ouch! That breaks my heart....

lol, it's like my entire system is starving. Trust me, they all get fed. I promise. I even have the algae to prove it!