Sun coral vs peppermint shrimp

[Kellyscoral]

Imagine my surprise when I looked in my tank this evening and discovered the back half of my peppermint shrimp was inside the mouth of suncoral polyp. In a million years I never would have thought it could eat something that large. I tend to feed all my LPS very heavily so I would not have thought hunger was a factor (if they even get hungry???). I feel kind of bad saying this - but the suncoral is looking pretty spectacular right now after it's feast!!

[gregzz4]

Maybe it's just a shrimp molt your sun coral is trying to eat, and the shrimp is still around in hiding waiting for it's shell to harden ?
It's pretty hard for a sun coral to eat an active shrimp, unless the shrimp passed away ...

I'll wager the shrimp is still around tomorrow :wink:

[Pike]

Nature in action.....cool

[Baker]

Suncorals do get hungry considering they are nps and not LPS.

[dino]

I agree it's possibly a melt