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teto_78
11/19/2006, 06:49 AM
So I had these two very peaceful razorfish, I caught them at the local reef. They swim around slowly like seahorses occasionally poking at things and what not. Yesterday, one disappeared, and today I found this.......


BEFORE

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b178/gonzoman_78/Pipefish.jpg


AFTER

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b178/gonzoman_78/DSC_2440.jpg

If you look closely one of them has its arms wrapped around the poor fish.

I checked my water parameters and they are good, and I feed them, ahem, use to feed them live plankton, which they loved.

R.I.P.

Kigs
11/19/2006, 07:38 AM
i'm pretty sure it was already dead by the time aiptasia got around to it. at a LFS i used to work at, we used to feed small clownfish or damsels we got in as DOA to this gianormous aiptasia we kept in a floating jar but alive fish? i don't think aiptasia could catch and eat... but then again, you never know since those razorfish are super slow swimmers. where do you live? that's pretty awesome that you could catch those in local water.

teto_78
11/19/2006, 07:41 AM
Okinawa, Japan

dc
11/19/2006, 07:47 AM
I imagine they'll sting and eat anything they can. I'd be injecting them myself.