H2O Magazine

Who can say that they have ever observed stony corals getting in a sort of "hunting fever?" The role of corals as an important predator in the reef is mostly unknown. Food acquisition at night remains mostly obscured to divers, and the naked eye of the beholder, due to the microscopic size of the coral’s prey and the light-sensitive (or photophobic) response of the polyps to disturbance from the divers’ torch.