My carpet anenome ate my clown fish

[bigtang803]

I have a pretty good sized brown carpet anenome(about as big around as a softball). I bought 2 wild perc clowns at my lfs friday. The guy i bought the anenome from had 3 clowns hosting in the same anenome. When one of my clowns tried to get in it, the carpet closed up on him, and ate him. That sucks. The fish didn't last 30 seconds in my tank. Has anybody ever heard of anything like this before?? What can you do??
:notsure:

 

[clown123]

thats weird maybe the clown didnt have the coat that clowns need to host the anenome they have big stings those carpets.

 

[oceana]

Originally Posted by BigTang803
I have a pretty good sized brown carpet anenome(about as big around as a softball). I bought 2 wild perc clowns at my lfs friday. The guy i bought the anenome from had 3 clowns hosting in the same anenome. When one of my clowns tried to get in it, the carpet closed up on him, and ate him. That sucks. The fish didn't last 30 seconds in my tank. Has anybody ever heard of anything like this before?? What can you do??
:notsure:

thats nothing our large carpet just ate a 6 inch hippo tang on sunday.!!!

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part of owning a fish eating anemone IMO our carpet is a neon green one and approx 15 inches around