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Surrounding a corals mouth are a ring of tentacles, and each tentacle is loaded with tiny stinging cells that contain a miniature barbed harpoon called a nematocyst. When a food item touches an outstretched tentacles, the stinging cells fire harpoons into the animal, which make it stick to the tentacle. The tentacle then pulls the prey into the mouth, and it is then digested.
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What does the brain coral eat?
Microscopic animals
What kind of animals eat microscopic animals?
Whales usually eat Plankton, which is a microscopic algae type thing. Many things eat microscopic animals, I believe herring is one species.
Animals that feed on coral?
Animals that eat coral are fish, bacteria, angelfish, butterfly fish, parrotfish, sea slugs are some animals that eat coral.
How do coral animals construct a reef?
eat eat
What do microscopic animals in the ocean eat?
Other, even smaller animals.
What do mussles eat?
They eat microscopic plants and animals called plankton.
What large ocean animals that swim and eat microscopic plants and animals?
whale
Do killer whales eat coral?
No, killer whales eat microscopic plants they inhale and krill. Watch Finding Nemo, silly!
What ocean animals eat coral?
lots of ocean animals eat coral such as:Parrot fishCrown of thorns sea starButterfly fishNudibranchsSea slugsAnd many others
What animals eat brain coral?
Probably fish that live in the tropics because that's where brain coral lives and that is it because brain coral eats its own food
Does plankton eat aquatic plants?
No, plankton are microscopic plants and animals. They either make their own food from sunlight or eat other microscopic organisms.
What does hermatypic coral eat?
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.
