My ricordia yumas are eating my scooter blennies! WTF?!

[SCIronMike]

They can do that?! My wife and I love scooter blennies, but they tend to disappear in our tank. Now, I see my newest blenny half consumed by a ricordia. They can do that?!

 

[Anonymous]

They can certainly consume solid food (I've fed mine mysis in the past), but I doubt they could catch a blenny (to enable mine to eat the mysis, I had to scare away the hermits etc and it moves pretty slowly).

If you're sure you have a ricordea yuma and not that fish killer, Amplexidiscus fenestrafer, then I would suspect that another inhabitant has caught and killed the blenny and the ricordia is opportunistically snacking. If the blenny was weak from transit, could a hermit even have got it?

 

[Anonymous]

Unless the scooter was really slow moving that is, and they do sometimes like to perch. :?

 

[Anonymous]

It is a coincidence, Mike. Just like some people may think flies kill a squirl on the side of the street when he see the insect swamping around the road kill.

 

[K9coral]

Suck it up buttercup. There they go.....

 

[Anonymous]

They can do that?! My wife and I love scooter blennies, but they tend to disappear in our tank. Now, I see my newest blenny half consumed by a ricordia. They can do that?!

Are you sure these are ricordia, and not rhodactis sp (frilly) mushrooms? I can't imagine a ricordia being able to consume even a small scooter blenny, even if it was dead and drifted into it.

I only ask because I have had people try and sell me "ricordias" that were really mislabeled frilly mushrooms, and they get much bigger than I have ever seen true ricordia.

But if they are indeed ricordia, I would be totally stunned to find out they are eating scooters.

 

[Anonymous]

I have fed some of my Ricordea yuma whole Silversides that they eat with no trouble. I can see a large R. yuma eating a dead Scooter. I have strong doubts about them eating a live one that can still swim.

They are quite large though...