Awww... nooo!  What kind of fish was that?  Can I cast a vote for "I think he was fine, then had a fish freak, bonked his head on the glass, and the anemone was an opportunist..." ?  

Sorry ~ ~  Renee

I agree with the sick fish conclusion. Fish can seem healthy, yet be sick for weeks or have some kind of heart condition and then die within hours. I have seen healthy fish get nabed by one or two anemone tentacles but flip it off as through it were nothing. When a fish is sickly, it lays around being blown by the water current then momentarily "kicks", which gets it blowing around somewhere else in the tank. I hate watching it.

Brittle Stars, on the other hand, can catch healthy, but unwary fish. I've heard of a Brittle Star that slowly formed a cage around a small Regal Tang. The Regal was too dumb or frightened (you know how they hide in a tight place) to notice till it was too late to escape the bars of it's death trap.

I'm going to say it was a healthy fish that just swam into the anemone.

 I've heard of a Brittle Star that slowly formed a cage around a small Regal Tang. The Regal was too dumb or frightened (you know how they hide in a tight place) to notice till it was too late.

I'd have to see that to believe it.  As far as I've found, not one single person has actually seen or videotaped a brittle star ever catching a healthy fish.

Adam

Well first off, I think carpet anemones are more likely to catch fish, so I could be totally wrong on your anemone (especially since everyone else is taking the other side).  But I sold my carpet anemone (and the buyer was definately aware it was a fish catcher).

But I miss that anemone, it was way cool looking.

Adam

Adam, I know the person that saw it happen and now you can say that you have "heard of it happening".

Of course, the Carpet Anemone is the exception. But shoot, the fish is just asking to be eaten when it snuggles up to a carpet.