For coral-feeding fishes, recent research suggests that thenutritional quality of bleached coral tissue declines during ableaching event before the coral actually dies (Cole et al., 2009;Rodríguez-Troncoso et al., 2010; but see Pisapia et al., 2012).Adult coral-feeding fishes exhibit declines in physiological condition
immediately after bleaching (Pratchett et al., 2004), which maybe attributable to increasing reliance on sub-optimal coral prey, or