nsamouroux
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Anyone ever come home from work to relax in front of their reef and notice that your 14" diameter RBTA is almost done gulping down your 6" male blonde naso tang? 
I noticed something gray in the middle of the RBTA and thought a hermit crab or frag or something might have fallen off a rock onto it, but when I looked closer it turned out to be the blode naso's face slowly descending into oblivion. I was so dumbfounded that I didn't even remember the camera until the poor thing had already disappeared. The fish looked fine a day or two ago when I last remember looking, the only thing I can think of is that he got a bit too close and got zapped... This anemone has never seemed to sting any fish in the 2 years I've had it (other tangs and a coral beauty constantly pick algae off the rocks around / under the RBTA), and it's never really moved from where I placed it (even after moving the tank from the apartment into a house back in April), but it's more than doubled in size and never split since I got it. I only rarely directly feed it (the clownfish pair it hosts take care of that for me, rather amusing to watch :lol, but maybe I should!
Hopefully my remaining naso (not a blonde) doesn't get lonely! This has definitely motivated me a bit further to set up the new tank to give this beast of an anemone some more room, since I also have a 10-11ish inch diameter sebae anemone in the same tank.
I noticed something gray in the middle of the RBTA and thought a hermit crab or frag or something might have fallen off a rock onto it, but when I looked closer it turned out to be the blode naso's face slowly descending into oblivion. I was so dumbfounded that I didn't even remember the camera until the poor thing had already disappeared. The fish looked fine a day or two ago when I last remember looking, the only thing I can think of is that he got a bit too close and got zapped... This anemone has never seemed to sting any fish in the 2 years I've had it (other tangs and a coral beauty constantly pick algae off the rocks around / under the RBTA), and it's never really moved from where I placed it (even after moving the tank from the apartment into a house back in April), but it's more than doubled in size and never split since I got it. I only rarely directly feed it (the clownfish pair it hosts take care of that for me, rather amusing to watch :lol, but maybe I should!Hopefully my remaining naso (not a blonde) doesn't get lonely! This has definitely motivated me a bit further to set up the new tank to give this beast of an anemone some more room, since I also have a 10-11ish inch diameter sebae anemone in the same tank.
