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pygmies are the tiny ones right? From a quick search it appears people are keeping them in tanks between 2 and 10 gallons, which sounds like an issue to me. I also haven't read anything about feeding live food, which you have taught me is huge for predators...
Another questions (which may be a stupid one) is will some of my corals/anemones be dangerous to them? I have a BTA, rock anemone, dendrophyllia, and a frogspawn, all of which I'm worried about harming the frogfish. From what I've found frogfish have thick skin that should protect them quite a bit against stinging animals like corals and anemones, but I'm also coming up with anecdotal evidence that corals can sting them and harm their health. I assume the corals just did the already dying frogfish in, since most people don't care for them properly anyways, but I'd like to hear if you have anything on the topic.
I've never kept them with anemones before so you'll have to figure that out, they do walk around and will just walk over and park on anything they like. So if an anemone can sting and kill or eat an angler I can't answer. That's something someone more familiar with anemones may be able to answer. I have kept them with euphillias ,acans, and even meat corals which I have seen eat small fish that decided to perch on them, with no ill effects to the angler. Like most fish if something stings them they'll just avoid it, I'm not sure how deadly of a sting your anemones have.
In another tank I had a meat coral and it was a tank with more smaller type reef fishes. All of a sudden I had fish disappearing, then one day I saw the meat coral eating a goby. That meat coral had a powerful enough sting to stun the fish enough for it wrap it's tentacles around before the fish was able to get loose. So like I said I'm not familiar with anemones if they have the same capabilities, and to what degree toward an angler.