Coral eating fish

[|sCRIBe|]

I added 5 Red Dot Cardinals to my tank a couple days ago and this evening I noticed one of them getting pushed around by the current and closer look showed it's tail fin missing and what was remaining appeared very white in color. The fish was clearly about to be dead so I scooped it with the net and figured I would see if a coral would entertain the idea. Here are a couple pics of the Dendrophyllia eating a red dot cardinal. It swallowed the entire fish in about 20 minutes

 

[Diesel]

Yep that's what corals do.

 

[rstrann]

What a way to die.. :/

 

[DSC reef]

It's basically an anemone so yes, it will eat fish as will most corals.

 

[saltyhog]

Other corals will take advantage of dead/dying livestock. This is my Lobo eating a shrimp molt.

 

[4FordFamily]

Pretty normal and that's an anemone -- they'll gladly eat anything that'll fit in their mouth.