Nem ATE clownfish!

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Alrighty guys, here’s what happened…I have this BEAUTIFUL mini maxi carpet anemone. And I was temporarily housing a clownfish with it…yesterday I came home from work to find the clownfish half-eaten, and still being eaten by the nem. And I thought: “what the heck?! Hasn’t this anemone ever seen Nemo?! They are supposed to be FRIENDS! You don’t eat your friends! “ :loudly-crying-face: …then, the next day at work, I told a co-worker what had happened…and he could not stop laughing!…anyways, anyone have a similar experience?
 
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Alrighty guys, here’s what happened…I have this BEAUTIFUL mini maxi carpet anemone. And I was temporarily housing a clownfish with it…yesterday I came home from work to find the clownfish half-eaten, and still being eaten by the nem. And I thought: “what the heck?! Hasn’t this anemone ever seen Nemo?! They are supposed to be FRIENDS! You don’t eat your friends! “ :loudly-crying-face: …then, the next day at work, I told a co-worker what had happened…and he could not stop laughing!…anyways, anyone have a similar experience?
Carpet nems don't host clownfish.
That being said, it's likely the fish was sick or already dead by the time the nem got ahold of it.
 

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Carpet anemones do host clownfish, mini maxis have no natural host. Your clownfish was most likely already sick/dying, a healthy clown would have not been eaten by a mini maxi
 

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Alrighty guys, here’s what happened…I have this BEAUTIFUL mini maxi carpet anemone. And I was temporarily housing a clownfish with it…yesterday I came home from work to find the clownfish half-eaten, and still being eaten by the nem. And I thought: “what the heck?! Hasn’t this anemone ever seen Nemo?! They are supposed to be FRIENDS! You don’t eat your friends! “ :loudly-crying-face: …then, the next day at work, I told a co-worker what had happened…and he could not stop laughing!…anyways, anyone have a similar experience?

I'd like to see a picture of this. Did you take one?
 
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Please excuse my dirty glass, and the bad photo
 

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Carpet nems don't host clownfish.
That being said, it's likely the fish was sick or already dead by the time the nem got ahold of it.
Do they host clarkiis? Ive seen lots of pictures of them in the wild hosting what looks like carpets but I could be mistaking them for a different kind of nem
 

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