zooplanktons

What Does The Zooplankton Eat?

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What Does The Zooplankton Eat? Zooplankton and other small marine creatures eat phytoplankton and then become food for fish, crustaceans, and other larger species. Is zooplankton a herbivore? Animal plankton are called zooplankton. … Zooplankton may be herbivores or plant-eaters (eat phytoplankton), carnivores or meat eaters (eat other zooplankton) or omnivores, which eat both plants

How Much Calories Do Zoolplankton Give To Fish?

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How Much Calories Do Zoolplankton Give To Fish? There are about 0.003 Calories per milligram dry weight of phytoplankton. For every 100g wet plankton, there are 20g when dried. So: 0.003Cal/mg dry *1000mg dry/1g dry * 20g dry/100g wet = 0.6 Calories/gram. How many calories is one plankton? We find phytoplankton is 1 mg carbon