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What do moon jellyfish eat?

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Moon jellyfish primarily eat planktonic crustaceans, but they also eat other small plankton including molluscs, fish eggs and smaller jellyfish. They catch their food with sticky mucus that lines the underside of their bells and then direct it into their four stomach pouches with their tentacles. read more

Moon Jellyfish Reproduction. In the summer time the Moon Jellyfish will take part in offering eggs and sperm on a daily basis. This is a process that will leave them weak and hungry. At the end of that process they will likely die. They tend to only live about 6 months in the wild from the time they are a full Jellyfish. read more

Moon jellies are also fed upon by sea birds, which may be more interested in the amphipods and other small arthropods that frequent the bells of Aurelia, but in any case, birds do some substantial amount of damage to these jellyfish that often are found just at the surface of bays. read more

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