Eating & Digestion
Even though the image to the left is not Aequorea Victoria, it is a good example of how jellyfish feed. Since Jellyfish don't have teeth or claws or pincers to rip or grind food up they need to ingest their food whole. As you can see in the image the jellyfish contains an entire fish in the stomach. If this were an Aequorea Victoria jellyfish, it would have been likely that the fish would have first been injected with venom using the sticky end of the tentacles. This would make injestion into the stomach where special enzymes would break down the fish. There is not a lot known about these enzymes other than they can break down most carbohydrates, protiens and lipids.
Aequorea Victoria will occasionally eat fish that are up to half their size, it is more common to see them feeding on soft bodied organisms, larvae, plankton and a variety of crustaceans. (Aequoria victoria 2013).
The ectoderm of the subumbrellar segment includes smooth muscle with a radial orientation, used for local (feeding and righting). (Satterlie, 2008)
Aequoria Victoria have also been known to eat the larvae of herring. In a study done by (Grover & Purcel 1990) the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria was the only soft-bodied zooplankter that ate herring larvae.
Aequorea Victoria will occasionally eat fish that are up to half their size, it is more common to see them feeding on soft bodied organisms, larvae, plankton and a variety of crustaceans. (Aequoria victoria 2013).
The ectoderm of the subumbrellar segment includes smooth muscle with a radial orientation, used for local (feeding and righting). (Satterlie, 2008)
Aequoria Victoria have also been known to eat the larvae of herring. In a study done by (Grover & Purcel 1990) the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria was the only soft-bodied zooplankter that ate herring larvae.