Missing Goby

It was a small yellow tang - and I actually caught the starfish curled up with the body of the tang. I just assumed it had died during the night and the starfish was doing its job - cleaning up.
 
I've never heard of a serpent star catching and eating fish.But the big green brittle stars are known as green death because they are expert hunters of fish.
 
I thought that they were serpent stars. They do not have the hairy legs like brittle stars have. My big one is huge, over a foot long. When I drop clam meat in the tank he flies out from under his rocks and across the tank. It is amazing to watch. However, I think he is my silent killer. If not, I still can not explain where my fish are disapearing to.......
 
I guess that I was too quick to convict him - my purple tile fish came out of hiding tonight :) I was glad to see him. My LFS said that they would take the starfish back for a trade. Should I get rid of him or keep him?
 
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