Flower Anemone vs. Midas Blenny

[JPagliai]

I have a large flower anemone that my husband is accusing of eating my midas blenny. Does anyone know if these things will survive in the sump? I'd hate to kill it, and I don't want to give it away to someone else if it's a fish eater.

[snookhunter]

They need good light. We have a couple in our tank. They've never eaten any fish though.

[snookhunter]

I should add that we did have one eat a blue mushroom that was too close to it and unattached. It ate if for a couple of hours then coughed it up.

Funny thing was the mushroom seemed to come out better than it went in! A couple days later it looked good then later on it split...which it never did before.

If you think it might have eaten the fish just recently you might be able to see it in the anemone. That's how we figured out where the mushroom went....dark blob in the foot/body of the anemone.

This was a beaded rock anemone...very simliar.

If you really want to get rid of it I'd be interested in it.

[icenine2005]

Yeah... I've had a 8" Epicystis crucifer in a nano for several years that never ate a fish.
If it did "cough one up" (which is what it would do because like stated above they really can't digest large pieces of anything, much less entire fish) I would guess that what it got a hold of a was already dead or nearly.
They don't have a very powerful sting, so unless a fish was very sick or all together lifeless I don't think I could see my monster taking one. I even have starfish that scooch right over her all the time with no harm done.

[JPagliai]

I don't think it ate the blenny either. I think the blenny died in the rockwork someplace. But, I have to admit that the stem of the anemone was suspiciously large the day we noticed the blenny missing.

[smelter]

can pick it up if you still have it