Chocolate chip eating sand critters?

[Gealcath]

I have a rather large 3" chocolate chip starfish, and i notice when its looking for food it would walk on the sand bed, pile up the sand into a mound underneath it, sift through the sand abit, and the extend its stomach around the pile. Could it be trying to eat any critters in the sand bed?

[gbolton]

That is exactly what it is doing. CC starfish will eat anything they can catch and you would be surprised what they can catch.