Jarred Darque
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OK, I posted a thread in the nano forum a week or so ago, I had a nitrate spike that killed 1 of my o. clowns. I was able to lower the nitrate some with dailt water changes, but teh second clown start looking ill this morning. I hadnt seen him in a couple of hours, so I tore apart the tank to look for him.
I went through every single peice of live rock, didnt find him, he wasnt in the tank. I grabbed a flashlight, started looking deep into the holesinthe live rock. I found him, dead.
BUT, covering all of him except his head was an invert of some type. I was mostly purple with a textured appearance to it, and when I say it was over the clown, I mean, that it looked like a film or something that was growing on the clown, it was attatched at teh back of the clwon, and the the bottom and top of the fish, attatched to the rock, it was apparantly eating/digesting the fish somehow...very confusing, and sorry I cannot get a pick.
Any ideas of some type of sponge looking invert thing that can bascially 'swallow' a small fish?
On edit. After I foundit, I put all teh rock, and this piece, back in the tank. ( he was in a very deep hole in the rock) then I got the stuff to take him out, pulled the rock back out, and the purple thing was gone, no longer covering the clown
I dug the clown out, and he has been dissovled so much he is almost liquified, the only thing remiang in the head and a littlebit of the body beind it, which I guess was next The only distuinguishable thing left of the fish is the color and the empty eyesockets
BTW this piece of rock was a haven for hitchikers. It came with a few orange ball anenomes, about 6 sponges (at least) thre are about a dozen on this one 5 lb piece now, a anemone crab, and some other unidentifed inverts.
I went through every single peice of live rock, didnt find him, he wasnt in the tank. I grabbed a flashlight, started looking deep into the holesinthe live rock. I found him, dead.
BUT, covering all of him except his head was an invert of some type. I was mostly purple with a textured appearance to it, and when I say it was over the clown, I mean, that it looked like a film or something that was growing on the clown, it was attatched at teh back of the clwon, and the the bottom and top of the fish, attatched to the rock, it was apparantly eating/digesting the fish somehow...very confusing, and sorry I cannot get a pick.
Any ideas of some type of sponge looking invert thing that can bascially 'swallow' a small fish?
On edit. After I foundit, I put all teh rock, and this piece, back in the tank. ( he was in a very deep hole in the rock) then I got the stuff to take him out, pulled the rock back out, and the purple thing was gone, no longer covering the clown
I dug the clown out, and he has been dissovled so much he is almost liquified, the only thing remiang in the head and a littlebit of the body beind it, which I guess was next The only distuinguishable thing left of the fish is the color and the empty eyesockets
BTW this piece of rock was a haven for hitchikers. It came with a few orange ball anenomes, about 6 sponges (at least) thre are about a dozen on this one 5 lb piece now, a anemone crab, and some other unidentifed inverts.