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How do cnidarians eat?

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Mainly through suspension feeding. Cnidarians use stinging tentacles (nomocytes) to capture their prey. Once the tentacles grab the food it is absorbed in the gastrovascular cavity (stomach) and taken in asnutrients.

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A Cnidarians body consists of a gastrovascular cavity with an opening where they ingest food and where waste is released.

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Cnidarians usually eat fish that they stun with their tentacles.

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All cnidarians are carnivores. They their cnidae and associated poison to capture food. They are generally not known to pursue prey.

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cnidarians have tentacles and they use it for paralising their prey so that they can eat it.

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they eat thru they mouth

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cnidarians obtain food with they mouth

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It stings its prey then it eats it.

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