Sunfish live on a diet that consists mainly of jellyfish, but because this diet is nutritionally poor, they consume large amounts in order to develop and maintain their great bulk.
The diet of the ocean sunfish consists primarily of various jellyfish (similar to the diet of a leatherback turtle). Additionally, it consumes salps, comb jellies, zooplankton, squid, crustaceans, small fishes, fish larvae, and eel grass.This diet is nutritionally poor, forcing the sunfish to consume a large amount of food to maintain its size. The range of food items found inside sunfish indicates that the sunfish feeds at many levels, from the surface to deep water, and occasionally down to the seafloor in some areas.
The sunfish can spit out and pull in water through its small mouth to tear apart soft-bodied prey. Its teeth are fused into a beak-like structure, allowing it to break up harder organisms. In addition, pharyngeal teeth located in the throat grind food into smaller pieces before passing them to the stomach.
Ocean Sunfish eat jellyfish, small fish, zooplankton, algae, and salps
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The Mola Mola, ocean sunfish, is one of the largest fish in the world. The ocean sunfish live and travel in schools to protect themselves from predators.
Don't think so. Anyway not that I know of.
Depends on the specific kind of sunfish, but in the wild the average lifespan of most sunfish species is around 5-7 years. In captivity they will live longer, however, so they could be seen to live 10+ years in that situation.
mola mola, or ocean sunfish, (that is what an advertisement for Helio's new cell phone said)
Sunfish eat jellyfish.
Ocean Sunfish MAINLY feed on jellyfish...But also feed on other SMALL fishes.
Yes, Ocean Sunfish do have a spine.
There are a few different fish species named Sunfish the ones that live in the ocean live in the rockier more cavernous areas and eat jellyfish and puffer fish.
no, it's an ocean sunfish. :)
No, but a raccoon will eat a sunfish.
Generl habit for sunfish is the ocean
sunfish are carnivores
trout, ocean sunfish which is the largest bony fish in the world, and the black marlin
Walleye and sauger may, on occasion eat sunfish.
Mola mola is the scientific name for ocean sunfish
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