FACTS ABOUT THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF A SEA ANEMONE
- Believe it or not sea anemones are meat eating predators.
- They mostly feed on plankton and small fish
- They are almost identical to coral in the category of feeding
- Sea anemones have one opening that is surrounded by tentacles , each of these tentacles are a nematocyst
- Nematocysts containing stinging cells that paralyze their prey.
- The tentacles capture the prey and move it through the mouth , so it can be moved into the stomach cavity.
- When the food enters the cavity there is mucus that can break down the food.
- Due to the fact that they only have one opening the broken down food is exerted back throught the mouth where it was taken in