My Acan coral ate my fish

[Casey Quek Jl]

I had a bagaii cardinal for about 3 days.. when my acan coral "ate" it. I woke up this morning to see half its body inside the coral. the cardinal is about the same size or alittle bigger. is this a threat to my other fishes? or a normal habit for acan corals.

New reefer.2g tank. :thumbsup:

[angmoh]

i think ur fish had dead and accidentally fell onto the acans

[idle69]

Unless its a mutant acan wif 1 meter tentacles n hungry 4 cardinals...I agree wif Angmoh n tink is a 1 time incident

[brojj]

Incredible.

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[brojj]

Incredible.

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[fatbike]

I used to "accidentally" drop the dead bodies of my small fishes onto my lps, n they usually will b accidentally get eaten

[Patrick]

Amazing photo of a coral eating a fish! But will the coral choke?

[angmoh]

it will slowly melt them in their mouth.. just like a chocolate melt in your mouth...

[Kelvin81]

Amazing. .

[reef garden]

Such incidents involving lps eating fishes are not frequent but it's not unheard of too. You should be wary when you have big mouthed lps eg. prata, elegance, and small fishes because the sweeping stinging tentacles of the lps are meant to immobilize prey and capture them as food for the corals, which happens mostly when the lights are turned off and particularly when the fishes venture too near to them.

[yourdi3]

woah seldom hear acan eat fish. so far personally is anemone eat clown fish but i think should be dead before turning into a meal. haha

[David5077]

Tks for sharing so I will skip of buying Bagaii cardinal if it really eat fishes

[solasido]

Saw similar thing happens with hammer coral and a dead juvenile true percula at AM yesterday. The head is already swallowed.

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[Evolutionz]

i agree that the fish is already dead.. everytime my cleaner shrimp molt, the shell will be eaten by my green open brain..