Urchin eating chocolate chip star fish

[sagee]

So i maintain tanks for work and i just get a text from one of my clients saying she watched her chocolate chip star fish eat her pincushion urchin! Lol has anyone else seen or heard of this?

 

[Cory]

Wow. I never heard of this

 

[Zack K]

Savage! I agree. Never heard of this. What about #reefsquad you guys heard anything

 

[dbl]

Negative...It's a new one on me.

 

[KJ]

Horned sea stars seem to be opportunistic carnivores; adults are known to prey on most sessile life forms including hard corals and sponges in aquarium. In this same setting, they will hunt down snails and eat them. An individual of horned sea star also has been observed eating a sea urchin in their natural habitat.

 

[sagee]

Oh and idk if any of you have noticed but this one has 6 legs! lol its the devil! Thank you for your feed back.

 

[Dsnakes]

I say have the client aquire a long spined urchin next and it's a battle royal.

 

[Brew12]

I'm thinking the starfish didn't have enough to eat and was being opportunistic. From the looks of it, the Flame Angel couldn't believe the scene of the crime, either!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Well this is a first

 

[sagee]

Im glad im not the only one baffled by this. She already has a long spine about to be a battle royal! it couldn't be that hungry i just brought it there from a massive fuge tank we keep at our shop a couple days prior to this massacre.