The Great Salt Lake is chock full of brine shrimp, but the water is too salty for fish. As far as I know, nothing but brine shrimp can tolerate it.
What do brine shrimp eat?
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they are vegetarian
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Shrimp are scavengers
they eat what ever is on the lake floor
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Zooplanktons ?
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plankton
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They survive by eating the various microscopic organisms that live
in the lake. Brine shrimp are always in constant motion because they are filter feeders and use their appendages to funnel
nutrients towards their mouths. They generally consume a species of green algae called Dunaliella. This variety of
algae is preferred because they are small, single celled and have a soft exterior which makes them easier to consume for
the newly hatched shrimp. When there is too little or too much salt in the lake, the Dunaliella become scarce and the brine
shrimp must eat the larger cells of the diatoms, golden brown algae, instead.
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/tharrison/gslfood/studentpages/brine.html
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Buttcheeks, if you’re gonna copy, at least edit the text:
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/tharrison/gslfood/studentpages/brine.html
They eat very small algae that float near the water surface (=planktonic), and they filter these algae from the water with the aid of special modified appendages that act like sieves (i.e. they’re filter-feeders).
These algae are salt-tolerant species. Here’s more info about them:
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/tharrison/gslfood/studentpages/algae.htm
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/tharrison/gslfood/studentpages/brine.html
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