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What do jellyfish eat?

Updated: 11/6/2022
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Small fish that they paralyze with neurotoxins from nematocysts (stinging cells) in their tentacles.

Jellies are carnivorous, feeding on plankton, crustaceans, fish eggs, small fish and other jellyfish.Jellyfish are carnivores That is they eat meat mostly in the form of zoo-plankton smaller fish and jellyfish shrimp and what ever sea animal they can cope with keeping their size in mind. Jellyfish eat alot of diffrent foods, they mostly eat little fish by sitting upside down and looking like a sea anemone then the fish swim into it thinking its a new home but get eaten by the Jellyfish

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Jellyfish normally eats whatever their long tentacles catch while drifting in the ocean currents. A few species of jellyfish like the box jellyfish are good swimmers and chase their prey. The main food sources of jellyfish are smaller fishes, eggs and larvae of sea creatures and zooplankton. The larger species of jellyfish eat crustaceans and other jellyfish.

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jelly fish are carnivores and eat all the tiny organisms around them

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I believe they eat small fish, by paralyzing them using their tentacles. Hope this helped.

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fish and plankton

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Tiny fish

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