Small/clear white tip anemone kills my skunk cleaner😕

colsongreef · 06/21/2017, 09:32 PM

Has anyone ever had this experience?

davocean · 06/21/2017, 09:39 PM

Are you certain it's not a shedding?
It does happen sometimes, shrimps get bold and steal food, sometimes become food themselves, but unless you saw it or for sure see a body I'd be looking for it still.

colsongreef · 06/21/2017, 09:47 PM

I'm positive. He/she/it was bout 1 1/2 old and I thought it was molting but noticed the small tentacles had it and it was twitching. So I immediately got it free and the shrimp kicked a little and was moving. But come morning it was dead and the bristle worms were already on it. Oh well. Lesson learned. I'm scraping all anemones off I can find now. Thought they were cool and harmless but no more!

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Nick_Northern · 06/22/2017, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by colsongreef

I'm positive. He/she/it was bout 1 1/2 old and I thought it was molting but noticed the small tentacles had it and it was twitching. So I immediately got it free and the shrimp kicked a little and was moving. But come morning it was dead and the bristle worms were already on it. Oh well. Lesson learned. I'm scraping all anemones off I can find now. Thought they were cool and harmless but no more!

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Sorry to hear about your shrimp, I have just found these in my tank and they were kindly identified as Pseudocorynactis in this thread - http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2641574

Does yours look anything like this?

If so I was going to leave them be but I might opt to remove instead!

Thanks

colsongreef · 06/22/2017, 05:55 AM

Yep that's exactly it. Here's mine. Could taking rocks out and scraping them off with razor do the trick?

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Nick_Northern · 06/22/2017, 06:07 AM

Thanks, I'll get rid of mine too then. That might work but I'd be worried about leaving anything behind, I might stick a big blob of putty over mine then pull out after a day or 2, typically I have just rearranged and puttied all my rock and they are right at the bottom!

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patiof · 06/22/2017, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by colsongreef

Has anyone ever had this experience?

not with an anemone, but i suspect my long tentacle plate coral my have gotten one of my peppermint shrimp recently...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2641627

still not sure

06/21/2017, 09:32 PM	#1
colsongreef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 9	Small/clear white tip anemone kills my skunk cleaner😕 Has anyone ever had this experience?

06/21/2017, 09:39 PM	#2
davocean Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,655	Are you certain it's not a shedding? It does happen sometimes, shrimps get bold and steal food, sometimes become food themselves, but unless you saw it or for sure see a body I'd be looking for it still. __________________ There's a fine line between owning your tank and your tank owning you! Current Tank Info: SCA 120g RR Starfire, Tunze silence 1073.02 return, 40g sump w/ fuge, SWC Extreme 160 cone skimmer,Geismann reflexx 4xT5, 2x Panorama Pro LED strips, Vortech MP40QD

06/21/2017, 09:47 PM	#3
colsongreef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 9	I'm positive. He/she/it was bout 1 1/2 old and I thought it was molting but noticed the small tentacles had it and it was twitching. So I immediately got it free and the shrimp kicked a little and was moving. But come morning it was dead and the bristle worms were already on it. Oh well. Lesson learned. I'm scraping all anemones off I can find now. Thought they were cool and harmless but no more! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

06/22/2017, 05:55 AM	#5
colsongreef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 9	Yep that's exactly it. Here's mine. Could taking rocks out and scraping them off with razor do the trick? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

06/22/2017, 06:07 AM	#6
Nick_Northern Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Redditch, United Kingdom Posts: 261	Thanks, I'll get rid of mine too then. That might work but I'd be worried about leaving anything behind, I might stick a big blob of putty over mine then pull out after a day or 2, typically I have just rearranged and puttied all my rock and they are right at the bottom! Sent from my F5121 using Tapatalk