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How do angler fish catch its prey?

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To keep a good balance give them a high quality flake food or pellet everyday. Feed brine shrimp (either live or frozen) or blood worms as a treat. You can even feed them lettuce or spinach. Feed mosquito larvae sparingly as they will tend to overeat it, which could kill them.

Angelfish eat the average fish food. If you have a fish store near you, go and ask a employee to direct you to the fish food section. And you will probably find a can of fish food with an Angelfish on it. Good luck!

Angelfish are omnivorous, but in captivity they should be fed a variety of flakes, pellets and frozen food.

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They are omnivorous; so they eat algae, zooplankton, and small crustaceans and fish.

it eats pelets and flakes flake fish food. the plants in their environment

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well they make a loud grating sound

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they hunt by swimming around looking for a target- shrimp, worm- and when they see one, they swim quickly toward it and snatch it up. their shape is good for swimming through plants while hunting.

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The clue is in the name, angler. A human angler sitting on a river bank dangles a bait in front of the fish, hoping the fish will take the bait. An angler fish does the same, waddles a worm-like bait on the end of a special appendage. Any fish attracted close enough is snapped up and eaten.

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When the queen angelfish is young it sets up a spot for other animals to come and get cleaned.The young angelfish the eats the parasites off of the larger animals and that is it's food.

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With a small fleshy lure dangling in front of its mouth to attract the prey, while the angler remains motionless. When the prey gets close enough the angler gulps it down quickly.

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swim and snatch it

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What fish has a large mouth and uses a fishing lure to catch prey?

The anglerfish.


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