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Todd 10-19-2006 03:04 AM

Coral eating Fish
 
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So you thought that you were going to read about someone complaining about their fish bothering their sps corals? Not quite - here are some pictures of a small green chromis being eaten by a green fuzzy mushroom. The chromis had recently been added and had had an altercation with my purple pseduchromis. While harboring his injuries he was swimming close the bottom and when when I was out of the room this happened! I could see him swimming around on the inside of the mushroom when it closed up and then when it opened up he was stuck inside the mushrooms mouth! I have since started target feeding these mushrooms.

P.S. - How do I 'embed' pictures in my posts?

OCDP 10-19-2006 03:24 AM

Yikes.. did the fish die?

FWIW, this is not uncommon. I have read on a couple occassions of fuzzy mushrooms eating fish.. (clowns, etc..)

Todd 10-19-2006 03:53 AM

He was fully consumed by the mushroom - nothing left.

Quagmire 10-19-2006 04:07 AM

He will spit out the bones later :biggrin:

SeaHorse_Fanatic 10-19-2006 04:45 AM

Mine did the same with my first "frzn mysis-eating" mandarin dragonet. Grrrrrr.

Anthony

Farrmanchu 10-19-2006 12:56 PM

Good thing is, Shrooms double in growth when target fed all the time. That Shroom is gonna get big!


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