Obi Juan kenobi Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Here is a pic of 1 of my shrooms eating a peppermint shrimp. Link to comment
filefish949 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I dont think you mentioned whether the fish survived. Did it? I suspect the ffish was dead or very sick before the mushroom caught it Link to comment
OB1 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I suspect the ffish was dead or very sick before the mushroom caught it +1 I just cant imagine a mushroom being able to close that fast. Maybe their tenticles are poison enough to stun??? Link to comment
Drez Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I just got some green hairy shrooms. Yesterday when I was feeding mysis one landed on a hairy shroom and I was suprised to see how quickly it closed up like the one in your pic. My clown has tried to host a large brown shroom but I've never seen him touch the hairy ones. When I bought these I thought maybe the clown would like them. Now I hope he stays away from them. This is a pic when I first got them. They have since colored up nicely. Those don't look like Hairy Mushrooms, they look like Elephant ear mushrooms to me. If so it's a Coralimorph, kind of a hybrid of Mushroom and Anemone. This is probably the case for others too, but depends what they mean by "Hairy Mushroom". Basically, Discosoma sp. are smaller and eat small bits of food while Rhodactis sp. can eat much bigger stuff, including slow fish. Link to comment
monkeytrumpets Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 +1I just cant imagine a mushroom being able to close that fast. Maybe their tenticles are poison enough to stun??? I actually just read about this today oddly enough. Apparently Elephant Ear mushrooms can close in as little as 3 seconds (Sprung and Delbeek vol. 2). I am a bit surprised that it was able to nab your clown. I would have assumed a faster moving fish would be able to get away. Perching fish like gobies on the other hand... Sorry for your loss in either case. Edit: ^beat me to it! Link to comment
OB1 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Those don't look like Hairy Mushrooms, they look like Elephant ear mushrooms to me. If so it's a Coralimorph, kind of a hybrid of Mushroom and Anemone. This is probably the case for others too, but depends what they mean by "Hairy Mushroom". Basically, Discosoma sp. are smaller and eat small bits of food while Rhodactis sp. can eat much bigger stuff, including slow fish. Is there a good sight where I can ID these guys? I bought them as green hairy mushrooms but mine look nothing like the OP's mushroom that ate the clown. Link to comment
wvned Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Amplexidiscus appears like an extremely large Rhodactis, but it is distinguished by some features of its nematocysts. It also grows slightly larger than most Rhodacits spp., with a maximum diameter of approximately 20 inches (50 cm). Amplexidiscus fenestrafer is the only species recognized in the genus, though there may be a second species according to a researcher named Chen (Charles Delbeek, pers. comm.). Amplexidiscus fenestrafer is a piscivore, and it apparently uses an attracting and intoxicating scent to lure fishes into the folds of its oral disc. It slowly closes around the fish until it has trapped it within the sac formed, and then it digests the fish with mesenterial filaments. In the aquarium Amplexidiscus fenestrafer can trap fishes, but it can also be maintained and fed dead fish. Most fish learn to avoid it, but there is always a risk that Amplexidiscus fenestrafer will trap and eat your favorite fish. Reproduction in A. fenestrafer is typically by pedal laceration or budding, but fission is occasional. from here I have one in my tank. No casualties so for. Link to comment
CSoli921 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 In Amsterdam, they eat mushrooms. In Soviet Russia, mushroom eats you! Link to comment
Toomin Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 wow. what kind of shroom is that! what a way to lose a fish. Link to comment
B_Kurzweil Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 I had nightmares that thing was coming back to finish the whole family last night! Link to comment
megan Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 That is some freaky sh!t!!!! I just saw on the latest photo gallery post that that guy feed his yuma silversides! I have never fed my shrooms, but now I'm scared. I have a giant yuma, but I guess I don't have any small fish. BIZARRE!!! :huh: Link to comment
jsleep Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I had know idea, The fish was a prety good size.I received the shroom and the fish from a fellow reefer who has had it in his tank for quite some time without issue. I will be doing my homework from now on but really never thought that could happen. So there was some history there! Maybe the fish insulted the shroom's family and was taken out Godfather style. Maybe you can get a Mantis for revenge. Seriously, just when you think you have a handle on some things in this hobby, you get crap like this. Link to comment
B_Kurzweil Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Seriously, just when you think you have a handle on some things in this hobby, you get crap like this. I know tell me about it. Really keeps yo on your toes Link to comment
bmgrocks Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Its not uncommon for Elephant Ears to eat Clowns, they actually specaialize in having clowns host in them and consuming them...your mushroom did resemble a small elephant ear... Link to comment
rusty reefer Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 dude that is nuts!!!!!! sorry bout the clown. Link to comment
genzod66 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 my clown is missing,i have a huge umbrella mushroom 4-5 inches in diameter,i saw it was all closed up ion a ball,just like the pictures here,and i cut it open,there was sringy mucas,clown was gone,any thoughts??small clown by theway Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 That's not good to hear. Link to comment
The Frog Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Mushrooms Thoughts: "I found Nemo!" It's funny and sad at the same time. Sorry for the loss. Note to self: Hairy Mushrooms = Bad. Link to comment
Ryan_H Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 a lady that does aquarium maintenance through my store said that when she worked at one of our competitors a giant elephant ear mushroom in their display tank trapped a raccoon butterfly and she had to pry the shroom open to get it out. it lived though. Link to comment
jhealey Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 The same thing happened to me, except no clownfish was eaten, I actually dont think my mushroom ate anything, it just closed up one day and you could see a white stringy ball on the inside. I managed a decent picture: Sorry to hear about the clown! Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Jhealey, it might swollow something it doesn't and those string white stuff are the one that help it spits back out. Link to comment
Haeun Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I just realized that my scooter blenny probably met the same fate a while back. I remember thinking that my hairy mushroom looked funny and like an onion bulb. And at the same time, I haven't been able to find my scooter blenny. ... D: Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 that scooter blenny is too curious to mess around with a shroom. Link to comment
lilredneckman Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 my clown is missing,i have a huge umbrella mushroom 4-5 inches in diameter,i saw it was all closed up ion a ball,just like the pictures here,and i cut it open,there was sringy mucas,clown was gone,any thoughts??small clown by theway Well maby he got eaten!! Link to comment
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