no corals do not catch plankton even though they are an animal
Actually, both hard and soft corals do catch plankton. A coral polyp (the individual coral animal) has a mouth surrounded by stinging tentacles. Hard corals stretch out their tentacles at night, when the plankton are drifting in the water. (Soft corals may catch plankton both at night and in the daytime.) The corals use their tentacles to sting the plankton and stuff it into their mouths.
Corals eat plankton.
Hermatypic corals are those corals that secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton and contribute to the building of reefs. The tissues of these corals contain a symbiotic alga called zooxanthellae. These algae are able to use sunlight to create their own food, and thus give some of this food to the coral. The corals themselves are able to catch and eat both phytoplankton (microscopic plant-like plankton) and zooplankton (microscopic animal plankton) with their tentacles.
No, you catch plankton with a machine gun.
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in the sea?They eat crill.By searching .They eat corals, plankton and other plant organisms .
Zoo-plankton (animals) eat phytoplankton (plants) and bigger animals such as fish, corals, barnacles, muscles etc, eat any plankton (animal or plant) that comes by them.
Most coral reef animals, making up the reef itself, are filter feeders and they eat the microorganisms that live in the water surrounding them.
Corals are both producers (they have symbiotic plants living in them) and consumers (herbivores/carnivores) as they filter feed on plankton.
Baby squid will feed on plankton until they are large enough to catch and eat other prey.
. . . Yes. Whales, fish, sharks, plankton, seals, seastars, sea sponges, anemones, corals. . Etc. . those all live in water. .
You can get it in ponds, lakes and the sea, using a very fine net.
Animals in the phylum Cnidaria include jellyfish, corals, sea anemones, and hydras. These organisms are characterized by specialized cells called cnidocytes, which contain stinging structures called nematocysts used for defense and capturing prey.