Starfish eating shrimp?

[captainmo25]

I recently added a cleaner shrimp to my aquarium. He disapperd within two days. Would a chocolate starfish eat the shrimp?
The only other fish in the tank is a small yellow tang, and a perc clown.
I also have four snails.
Is the starfish a fast enough preditor to catch and eat the shirmp?

 

[therock0861]

I don't believe that a chocolate chip starfish would be able to catch and eat a cleaner shrimp. IMO

 

[lovethesea]

me neither.....we have a cc star and a cleaner shrimp. The cleaner will even venture up to Chip and try to steal a piece of shrimp we gave him. Cleaner is too quick for him.

 

[captainmo25]

Can anyone explain what happened to the shrimp?

 

[kreach]

The starfish could have eaten the shrimp if the shrimp was already dead. What are the water parameters in your tank? (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, etc.) Do you dose with iodine?

 

[hunterdaddy]

The star could very well have eaten a shrimp. If the shrimp was in the molting stage he is vulnerable.