The ocean is full of sea animals that eat algae, the major photosynthetic primary producer. The types of animals that eat algae in marine environments are primary and secondary consumers. In a basic seaweed food chain, crustaceans eat the seaweed, fish eat the crustaceans and larger fish eat s...
What are the most abundant animals in a pelagic zone? Which are bigger: helminths or bacteria? What are the most resistant marine bacteria? What characteristics do algae share with plants? Which phytoplankton is in shallow water? Does bacteria eat algae?
During red tides, marine animals like fish or shrimp that eat algae also become poisonous as dinoflagellate toxins accumulate in their bodies. If you come in contact with the algae or eat these toxic sea creatures, you may have side effects likebowel problemsorfood poisoning. Some dinoflagellates...
What eats ocean sunfish? What do ocean sunfish eat? What fish eats amoeba? What are coral reefs made of? What are coral reefs made out of? What animal eats algae and phytoplankton? What do blue linkia starfish eat? What do sea stars eat?
When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy. Well, those dividing lines come crashing down with the discovery of a sea ...
Seahorses are small and fragile. Protect them from their predators, crabs, and make the algae and corals grow so they can hide. Features • Discover how animals live and how they interact in different ecosystems. • Play and learn with different marine animals: octopuses, crabs, sharks, tu...
Omnivores in the Ocean blue crabs - consume plants, algae and dead fish. bonnethead sharks - like to munch on seagrass and smaller aquatic animals. flatback, hawksbill and leatherback sea turtles - eat sea cucumbers, corals, seaweed, and fish. ...
Keeping Algae Numbers Under Control The excessive eating of algae by parrotfish has a direct impact on the algal population. Through their big appetites, parrotfish are able to curb just how much algae grows in the ocean. Parrotfish are well-known for their digging and scraping abilities, thanks...
You can get really sick from blue-green algae, and so can your animals. I remember a few years ago during a really hot summer when there was a big algae bloom in my area. Newscasters warned people not to get in the ponds and to keep their animals from swimming in them or drinking ...
the water is so hot for so long in the summers, that these animals can't function normally. They're spitting out the colored algae that lives in their skin,and the clear bleached tissue that's left usually starves to death and ...