Lost fish (full anemone)
Hi
I have a new reef setup I bought second hand from a friend.
120 gallon tank, plenty of LR, a Tunze System sump with skimmer.
The tank cycled well according to plan, a diatom explosion occurred, but quickly resolved with a yellow eyed tank, snails and hermit crabs.
Then two weeks ago a ritteri Anenome and 2 perc clowns, orchid Dottyback and a yellow tailed damsel were added.
Anyway, all seem to have been very happy, although the clowns have gone nowhere near the Anenome,  but over the last 5 days both the Dottyback and damsel have disappeared!
No powerheads have intakes that they could have been sucked into, and there is no sign of them jumping out of the tank. They all seemed well with no sign that there was any problem.
I can only assume that the Anenome has eaten them - is this possible?
<Yes. Though these fishes could have been lost in other ways (jumped out, died and quickly dissolved...)>
If so, is there any safer fish that I could replace them with?
<Not really particular types but it may help to place new livestock either early in the morning, or to leave the lights on the tank or one near the tank on overnight the first night or two. Know that ritteri (Heteractis magnifica) will eat most any fish, invertebrate that happens into its tentacles, and that they can/do expand quite a bit at times... Bob Fenner>
any advice would be very welcome,
Thanks
Ron Patmore,

Re: Yellow Eye Kole... cnidarian compatibility, Ritteri...  11/16/05
Bob,
<Carrie>
Hi thanks for the reply. I did a 10 gallon water change on my 60 gallon, added Polyfilter, and added carbon. Here is what I really would love from you. My ex-boss seems to think that my zoanthids are not the problem in my tank, but another LFS who knows about corals said they can be dangerous as far as chemical warfare on other corals.
<Yes>
I have placed an order with Live Aquaria on Saturday and I will be getting 2 aquacultured Montiporas tomorrow at 3 p.m. (Tuesday) I want the best conditions for them and I would like you to maybe wade through my corals (most are frags of a couple of heads or inches) I will pull the chemical warfare causing monsters!
I have:
*3 types of trumpet/candy cane corals (one green, one "purple/green, and the brown with green center each having only 3 to 4 heads)
*Yellow Polyps (maybe a dozen on a branch)
*Several different type of the stemmed zoanthid (4 frags have like 6 to 10 polyps each)
*Several different type of the flat mat zoanthids (Maybe like 20 to 30 on 3 different rocks)
*Pagoda Cup Coral (I love and doing great)
*Red Donut.... charity case, but with your help I am sure it will improve
*Colt Coral (6 to 7")
*1 Purple fuzzy mushroom......they said it was hairy.....not!
*2 Green hairy mushrooms (I plan to frag at each split and keep the population to 3)
*2 Green mushrooms given to me for a trade
*1 1/2" frag of a light blue Acropora (bleached out from stress I assume)
*1 1" Kenya tree.....seems to not be doing good
*1 Rock of green star polyps that wont come out.
*1 Small speck of a purple mushroom and 1 quarter size purple mushroom
*1 HUGE and stationary Heteractis Magnifica....LOVE this thing!!! I have 2 different species of clowns living in it and I plan it to be my center piece in my 150 gallon so you can't talk me out of it! Sorry, to be stubborn, but unless he spews out poison to kill everything, I really want to keep him.
<Am hopeful all this mis-mix can/will "growing up together" learn to get along, tolerate each other... There is a distinct possibility that the Heteractis magnifica will detach at some point... real trouble not if, when it contacts other cnidarians... hopefully someone will catch this quickly... Remember this pre-admonition>
NOW, I never really wanted to go down the mushroom route, but I DO suspect them! I will remove whatever I need to keep the Montipora digitata. The little frag that got lost that I had did great, but that was BEFORE the 2 green quarter size mushrooms. Tell me what you would suggest.
<More tanks... separating a good deal of this life into general "soft", "hard/stony", and anemone tanks...>
I am going into a 150 gallon next week and I have someone that had pom pom xenia for me, but I would choose the xenia over other items if they would harm the xenia. I looked over wet web and thought that a chart of compatible corals would be GREAT instead of wading through all the emails....
What do you think? Or do you know of a web site?
<A great idea... but don't know how we might make a multi-dimensional representation... that is, how to display the many "this goes with this semi-okay", "but now with these"... not a simple Cartesian plane>
My favorites I really would like to keep are one hairy green mush, one purple fuzzy mush, my Het... mag., colt coral, Montiporas, candy canes and trumpets, and Kenya and hopefully the Acropora. I don't need any of the other mushrooms and would lower my Zoa collection to my 3 "mats on rocks", seems they are not as dangerous as the stemmed zoa's...am I right? Take Care Bob!
Carrie 
<Not as dangerous, toxic, but still so... Perhaps your employer would like/prefer for you to gather, assemble disparate opinions re these organism mixes from the various BB's? Bob Fenner> 

Heteractis magnifica And Maroon Clown? - 12/15/05
Hi,
<<Hello>>
Can you put Premnas biaculeatus family with Heteractis magnifica?
Jeff Keith
<<Mmm...is one of the 'better' choices I believe.  EricR>>