Hate my condy

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  1. mdlinkous

    mdlinkous Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Guess I have learned my lesson having a 10 buck condy in my FOWLR. Everything has been fine for over 6 months.... Til this week.

    within the last week, It has eaten a mandarin goby, clownfish, and a royal gramma.

    I did not know what happened to the royal gramma. I assume the thing ate him. Then, the mandarin went missing. I thought I could see him in the condy, but wasnt sure. But then today, I saw my beloved in there, right at his mouth... The coney is gone now.

    Needless to say, I am pi$$Ed at my stupid decision of ever getting it. My 6 yr old begged and begged for it and I hated to say no.

    I just can't figure, why now. It is far fetched, but last week I bought a bag of reef munchies. I am wondering if they got the taste of meat and went wild. That is the only recent change. It stayed put for 6 months, but this past week it has started moving like crazy.

    Started not to post this cause I know what I am going to hear, but I just wanted to share my negative experience.
     
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  2. aw1447

    aw1447 Montipora Capricornis

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    Sorry to hear that man.. Thats a big time bummer. I think I would've taken that thing out and thrown it out the window ASAP.
     
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  3. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    Sorry about your losses, Cant say i have had any issues with my condys eating my fish even when they where double the size of the fish.
     
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  4. mdlinkous

    mdlinkous Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Thinking back on it, I remember one about 5 years ago eating a small yellow tang. Should have learned.
     
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  5. leighton1245

    leighton1245 Horrid Stonefish

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    Its possible I feed mine silversides :-[
     
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  6. barbianj

    barbianj Hammer Head Shark

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    That's similar to the saying that it's likely for the $10 fish kill the $100 fish.

    When my son had his first sw tank, my wife thought she would "surprise" him with a new anemone. She had it in the tank when he got home. It killed most of his fish, then got sucked up in a powerhead. :eek: Surprise!!!
     
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  7. bvb-etf-luva

    bvb-etf-luva Banned

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    im sorry to hear that. haha mandarins and nems generally dont mix well
     
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  8. mdlinkous

    mdlinkous Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    I wish mine was sucked up a powerhead
     
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  9. gsxr1000rider

    gsxr1000rider Fire Shrimp

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    I had a condy until 2 weeks ago, I put a post on my local reef forum saying " free condy to anyone who wants to save it from the blender" stupid thing ate one of my clowns... Nvr gonna have one of them petco specials again...
     
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  10. Night-Rida

    Night-Rida Finback Whale

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    i hope my condi doesnt eat my tomato clown... they started to host recently.. only good thing is the clown is decent sized compared to the anenome's mouth.. I only feed it once a week and its just a few mysis shrimps.. I'm sure its getting plenty of energy from my MH's though..
     
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