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What does a mussel eat?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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A mussel is what is known as a filter feeder; it passes sea water through a filter and eats whatever it traps, which is mostly plankton.

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The mussel can be found in waters all over the United States and Canada. Mussels eat mostly plankton and other small particles floating in the water.

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Blue mussels are filter feeders, so they eat plankton and other microscopic organisms.

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13y ago

Fish eat mussels. For example snapper.

Maybe seals too

walrus eat primarily mussels.

and don't forget humans!

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Blue mussels feed by filtering detritus and plankton from the water. Cilia inside of it create a current pulling in the water and plankton around it.

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Green liped mussel scavenge food , eating dead things and poo

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