Mandarine Goby found in anemone

Thanks for the sympathy note. I know it is just a fish, but... geez I really love my fish. Plus I know this could have been avoided with a little light so I feel responsible which makes it worse.

Very good point about the anemone possibly being poisoned by the mandarin. I thought this too, and have been watching the anemone carefully because I understand once they die in a tank, they can do some serious pollution damage fast. But so far it seems perfectly fine. Photo attached just taken.

It is probably why it was easy for me to remove the mandarin from the anemone. I was expecting it to be stuck tight but I was able to pick it right out. The anemone may have been in the process of rejecting it.

 

it is not suggested to keep anemones with mandarins or vice versa, they do not know to avoid them like other fish do as well. expecially carpets, i once had a trigger and a kole tang get eaten by a carpet. they will eat your fish and they are very difficult to care for.

 

Sorry you lost your fish.

When you have anemone's with a potent sting it's best to avoid fish that share the same zone in the tank, the sand bed.

Carpet anemones have been known to even take down tangs and very large fish, it only takes the fish brushing up against them briefly and the anemone gets a free meal.

 

also that anemone looks severely bleached, but it looks like its on the right track to recovery it looks pretty good for being bleached. hell probably pull through. but again i would suggest separating the mandarin and the nem.

 

I'm sorry for your loss and sad for the fish

 

I've had this anemone for four months. It seems healthy, but this is all fairly new to me so I had no idea it was recovering from anything. It has been in the same spot since I put it in the tank and seems to be happy with the two clown fish that have adopted it as their home. It always had a tinge of yellow green to it, but is mostly whitish in color. I haven't noticed the color changing since I brought it home.

For what it is worth, I do not have the mandarin anymore..... he did not survive this incident and I am not interested in replacing him with another one. Hard lesson learned. I had to really pamper that fish. I taught it to eat from a turkey baster because it was getting thin. I did not know they needed a well established tank when I brought it home so when I saw it was wasting away, I did the research (backwards, I know) and learned about their picky eating habits. So, I made a commitment to myself that this fish was not going to starve to death because of my ignorance. I successfully taught it to eat from the turkey baster and nursed it back to a very healthy size when he collided with the anemone. Little did I know that by making sure it did not starve to death, I was actually preparing the anemone lunch.

Back to the anemone. It was sold to me as a "White Carpet Anemone" I assumed it was suppose to be white. Is there something I can do for it if it is severely bleached like you suggest?

 

It that carpet has stayed in the same spot for months I would do nothing other then feed it weekly, just a small piece of raw fish/scallop/clam/squid..... I will have to go back and check out your lighting if you posted it.

Besides being a bit pale perhaps seems like you must be doing something right.

 

That has been the diet I've been feeding my anemone but I feed it smaller amounts and more than once a week. Is this OK?

Lighting: I have two - 48" Marineland LED reef capable lights.

My tank is a 75 gallon tank. I keep one set of lights on a 12 hour timer so that during the day the day lights are on and then when the timer switches, the night moon lights come on so my fish can see the anemone at night. Periodically, I have both day lights on to give the tank a boost of more light. Yesterday was such a day and I must have turned the unit off instead of to moon light. So when the timer shut the main light off it was completely dark in my tank. Thus the reason the mandarin ran into the anemone.

 

Sorry I am not familiar with LED to speculate on the fixture. Perhaps start a thread asking that specific question.

As long as he is taking the pieces and not expelling them I so no reason to change your routine. An anemone staying put, inflated, no gaping oral opening is all good.

 

they are not great lights i believe they are all one watt led's but sure its enough to be good for a carpet. i wouldnt trust it with sps.