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no corals do not catch plankton even though they are an animal
Actually, both hard and soft corals do catch plankton. A coral polyp (the individual coral animal) has a mouth surrounded by stinging tentacles. Hard corals stretch out their tentacles at night, when the plankton are drifting in the water. (Soft corals may catch plankton both at night and in the daytime.) The corals use their tentacles to sting the plankton and stuff it into their mouths.
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What do corals eat?
Corals eat plankton.
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.
Do you catch plankton with a plankton tow?
No, you catch plankton with a machine gun.
What eats cushion stars?
cushion star at corals,fish,plankton,mussels and shrimps cushion star at corals,fish,plankton,mussels and shrimps and sharks and you
Where do whales find their food?
in the sea?They eat crill.By searching .They eat corals, plankton and other plant organisms .
What eats plankon?
Zoo-plankton (animals) eat phytoplankton (plants) and bigger animals such as fish, corals, barnacles, muscles etc, eat any plankton (animal or plant) that comes by them.
How do coral eat?
Most coral reef animals, making up the reef itself, are filter feeders and they eat the microorganisms that live in the water surrounding them.
Are sea coral producers decomposers or consumers?
Corals are both producers (they have symbiotic plants living in them) and consumers (herbivores/carnivores) as they filter feed on plankton.
Do squid eat plankton?
Baby squid will feed on plankton until they are large enough to catch and eat other prey.
Can animals live in water?
. . . Yes. Whales, fish, sharks, plankton, seals, seastars, sea sponges, anemones, corals. . Etc. . those all live in water. .
Where do you buy plankton?
You can get it in ponds, lakes and the sea, using a very fine net.
What animals are in the animal phylum cnidarians?
The cnidarian groups are broken down first into two large groups; one contains the jellyfish (Medusozoa), and the other contains the corals and anemones (Anthozoa). Within the Medusozoa, there are four basic groups; Cubozoa(box jellies), Hydrozoa(Hyras), Scyphozoa(regular jellyfish) and Staurozoa(stalked Jellyfish). The orgainization of the Anthozoa is more complex, but basically they are the Hexacorallia and the Octocorallia. The Hexacorallia group consists of sea anemones, hard corals, black corals, 'mushroom corals', and the colonial zooanthids. The octocorralia consists of the 8 tentacled soft corals, and sea pens.
