No corals doesn't eat zooxanthellae they only eat zooplankton. Zooxanthallae helps corals to live and keeps corals colourful.They live on the coral polyps.
sponges, their zooxanthellae and smaller organisms for protection
Coral Shrimp feed off of the little animals in the reef..
Coral polyps and Zooxanthellae. They have a symbiotic relationship with each other. The coral polyps provide a home for the Zooxanthellae (a type of algae) and the Zooxanthellae provide the polyp with food and gives the coral its recognizable color. Without the Zooxanthellae, coral bleeching occurs.
protist
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The photosynthetic protists that lives inside the tissue of the coral polyp is zooxanthellae. Zooxanthellae is a photosynthetic algae.
zooxanthellae in coral.
zooxanthellae
it's a type of plant that lives in the water
Zooxanthellae are a type of dinoflagellate that live in the "skin" of hard coral. It's a symbiotic relationship where the zooxanthellae are photosynthetic and produce nutrients for the host coral.
Animals that eat both plants and animals are called omnivores.