Elephant Ear Fish Eating Mushroom! Claimed two of my clowns :-(

"Mushrooms" are a cousin of what we call "anemones", and that elaphant ear is just a closer cousin is all.
Oh as it becomes larger it will take fish and "slowly" close up around it.
( this happens mostly at night when the little fishy decides to sleep near/on it )

Ive seen elaphant ears as big as dinner plates and they are not picky eaters when it comes swallowing a clown or your favorite tang etc.

Actualy had considered it one time' they do "fill in" tanks quite nicely.
But had a friend that had a real nice softie tank , had a couple of nice tangs, a purple and a yellow.

One day the purple came up missing "MIA" and he was totally lost as to where it went lol....
( no carpet diving , we checked all over ).
Upon closer inspection of the tank, we noticed the elaphant ear was quite "bulgy" looking , lmao !.

Quite the expensive dinner ' a 25.00 elaphant ear consumed a perfect 130.00 purple tang.

 

Here's what our elephant ear looked like a few months ago:
(Kind of just laid it on that rock at first, but moved it later)



and here's now:



It definitely looks to have gotten a little bigger, and changes color from shades of pink to green still. I have never seen it blow up like a balloon though...and no fish missing yet.

 

Yea yours looks a lot different than mine, Bogie. Maybe like all corals there are different varieties of the same family or whatever. If you haven't seen it in the same hunting mode as I described, I wouldn't worry too much.

 

I have 2 very large Elephant Ear Mushrooms that my clowns host in....and have never lost anything....weird!