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Sea Nettles are carnivors, The Sea Nettle feeds on the zooplankton, ctenophores, and other jellys. They sting their prey with its tentacles the it is transported to the gastrovascular cavity where it is subsequently digested. The Seanettle usally eats plankton which is microscopic plants and animals drifting in water. They alos eat small crustaceans, comb jellies, and fish eggs and larvae. Nettles also eat young minnows, bay anchovy eggs, worms, and mosquito larvae.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysaora_quinquecirrha#Feeding_habits] | Sea Nettles are carnivors, The Sea Nettle feeds on the zooplankton, ctenophores, and other jellys. They sting their prey with its tentacles the it is transported to the gastrovascular cavity where it is subsequently digested. The Seanettle usally eats plankton which is microscopic plants and animals drifting in water. They alos eat small crustaceans, comb jellies, and fish eggs and larvae. Nettles also eat young minnows, bay anchovy eggs, worms, and mosquito larvae.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysaora_quinquecirrha#Feeding_habits] | ||
sea Nettles capture there prey and contact there tentacles with the prey underneath their bell to trap the prey These tentacles have millions of microscopic stinging cells that inject toxins to stun or kill tiny animals, and which are responsible for the stings swimmers feel [http://www.intercom.net/local/shore_journal/jp010716.html] Then the Sea Nettle transports it to the main tentacles to the heart-shaped gastric pouches which are in the swiming bell. Where the digestion occurs. All the jellyfish are prodigious predators because they swim and feed continuously, they do not have eyes, so they wont need light to feed on their prey when the eat it. They mostly feed without interruption because most of the many tentacles function independently of the others. But the Tentacles provided a very, very large area for eating. The thing it mostly eats is microscopic crustaceans. That are usall copepods that are very abundant in Bay waters, They also eat young minnows bay anchovy eggs, worms, mosquito larvae, and comb jellies, so they would seldom be without something to eat. [http://www.intercom.net/local/shore_journal/jp010716.html] | |||
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