peppermint ate curlique?

[ekclark]

I added a curlique anemone as part of a u-build-it yesterday and all seemed well. It had buried itself in the sand and was expanding itself out and so on...but then my peppermint shrimp started messing with it. They would walk up and peck it, but then run off when it moved a tentacle toward one of them. I figured they would feel each other out and all would be fine, but this morning the anemone was missing. Could the peppermints have eaten it? Also, is it worth pulling my tank apart if some left over piece of it is rotting somewhere? Would that poison my tank? Thanks.

 

[slothy]

i had probs with my peppermint eating/picking at my corals, so i had to remove him.. lil terror in my tank

 

[slothy]

cough cough, mine became starfish and coral food

 

[ekclark]

but will a dead/dying anemone poison a tank? I am just a little worried that this could lead to a lost reef...

 

[ekclark]

I found it...what is left of it, and it is now living in a glass under a lamp. I guess I can just hope for the best...for future referrence--is there any truth to the notion that an anenome dying will kill a tank?