lauriemae
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Just came home from church to see my anemone eating my sea hare! I couldn't believe it! I didn't think my anemone was that big, especially considering the sea hare was over 3 inches and chunky. I had NO clue what was in the anemone's mouth...my son said he thought that was what it was and when I pulled it out, it was like an embryo...all white, had the shape of a much smaller sea hare, no inkling of what the sea hare's outside looked like when it was alive...two red dots for eyes that were behind the layers of the translucent body. I'm SO sad. Not only was he doing a pretty good job of eliminating hair algae, but he was entertaining and really cool to watch. What could cause the anemone to grab it? I will say there are two areas in my tank that have a LOT of green hair algae, and both are right by the anemone/clownfish area and the clownfish will bite me if I try to get close to pull out the hair algae. I never saw the sea hare go close to the anemone before, but could he have been trying to get the algae and the anemone got angry? Don't want an aggressive anemone that's for sure!
Thoughts?
Laurie Mae
(When we pulled it out of it's mouth and out of the tank hoping he was alive still it STUNK SOOOOO BAD!!! I KNOW he was alive last night...but smelled like it was dead for days. The anemone had not taken bits out of it, the only thing I saw missing was the outside layer, which I would guess just turns inside out?)
Thoughts?
Laurie Mae
(When we pulled it out of it's mouth and out of the tank hoping he was alive still it STUNK SOOOOO BAD!!! I KNOW he was alive last night...but smelled like it was dead for days. The anemone had not taken bits out of it, the only thing I saw missing was the outside layer, which I would guess just turns inside out?)