Would an RBTA eat a perc?

[Zivman]

I bought a couple true percs from liveaquaria that I received on friday along with an RBTA. The clowns hosted in the RBTA within a day. I have pair of saddlebacks hosted in a LTA that were giving the new clowns a rough time, but nothing too serious. The female saddle would play in the new RBTA every once in while. The RBTA started moving around the tank a bit yesterday and the two percs were staying clear of it. I saw both clowns this morning when I fed the tank, but this afternoon, one perc is missing. searched everywhere and can't find her. Could the RBTA have eaten the clown? The RBTA is about 6-7" acroos and the clown was/is about 1.5".

The tank is a 200 gallon and I had the saddlebacks for about a monthe prior to getting the percs

[Achilles Tang]

I had a perc in my 180 a few years ago and added two Clarki clowns. There were three different anemones to host in. One evening I watch the female Clarki pound the %$%#@ out of the perc and then feed it to its anemone. RBTA are hosts for most clowns. I would look more to the saddle backs being territorial. And since the RBTA was on the move maybe the perc's didn't have anywhere to hide.

Chad

[Zivman]

The two anemones are on opposite sides of a 7' tank. The female saddle chased the new percs around a bit, but nothing more than she does to her male counterpart. The female saddle rarely went over to the RBTA and when it did, the percs just moved out of the way.

The other perc hasn't been bother at all today by the saddles. You really think a saddle would feed the perc to its anemone?

[Achilles Tang]

My tank is 6 foot and the anemones at that time were on oposite sides as well. All was well in my tank for about 4 days or so. My thinking at the time was that if the anemones are on opposite sides that should be more than enough room for the two types of clowns to set up territiories

It's possible the anemone ate in but I would error more twards the saddle backs or natural cuases and its stuck in the rock some where?

However I did just post some pics of a fox face getting eaten by my carpet anemone.

[Jive Turkey]

If the clown were dead, than its just food as far as the anemone is concerned.