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Is a fish a prey or predator?

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The Mola mola or ocean sunfish eats a large variety of foods. Common prey items are jellyfish, such as Portuguese man-o-war. Squid, sponges, serpent stars,crustaceans,eel grass small fish and the deep water eel grass, eel larvae have also been found in M. mola intestinal tracts proving that they forage for food at the surface, among the floating weeds, on the seafloor and into deep water.

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they're both. fish eat smaller fish. remember that all animals are part of a food chain just like humans.

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the lion fish is a preditor because of its deadly sting and other things it can do!!!!

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The blue tang is most often prey but it does eat plankton and shrimp sometimes so that would categorize it in the predator category.

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