[Delphinus]

A bubble tip .. wow. I was expecting you to say carpet anemone. When I had a green haddoni carpet that thing ate everything that would blunder into it. Never lost any fish thankfully but snails were gulped up and the clean shells spat out a day or so later, all the time.

A BTA though is usually not terribly aggressive. Heck, I have to sit there with my feeding stick and wiggle some krill for like a full on minute, or even two minutes before the BTA decides that it's food and grabs ahold of it (otherwise the krill just floats away). So I'm sorta surprised to hear of a BTA taking down a Mexican turbo ... unless maybe the turbo was already on the way out .. which is a real possibility. I find with snails I'll buy 10 at a time, 3 will kick off within a couple days, another 3 will kick off around the one-month mark and maybe the 4ish or so leftover after that will do OK for a year or two until they too decide to kick off.

I find Mexican turbos to be one of the worst offenders too for up and dieing out of the blue. I might get like 3 out of 10 that do well, but then those 3 will end up becoming huge and knocking every coral over that they can bump into. Bonus points if they can cause a small landslide too.

I guess I digress a little and I doubt this is helping much. Sorry, blame it on lack of sleep and over-binging on Nibs.

I'm guessing the turbo really wanted to walk into that anemone, or perhaps the anemone was really hungry. Or perhaps it's not a BTA? I second the call for photos. LTA's for example can be pretty predatory sometimes, and carpets (haddoni species at least) are also pretty sticky and hungry .. although there's no mistaking a carpet for a BTA so we can at least rule that one out.