2007-05-17 11:26:56 · 7 answers · asked by chahusingo 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Barnacles eat plankton. If you ever get around salt water check them out, it's rather cool. You can find them in tide pools or growing on the edge of the dock. They open their shell and a fan like member comes out and filters the water for plankton which is drawn back into their mouth by the same fan like member.
2007-05-17 15:58:02 · answer #1 · answered by Dennis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Barnacles are filter feeders and need moving water to catch their food.
2007-05-20 14:55:18 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID A E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
barnacles feed on alge in the water
2007-05-17 14:45:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you brush up against one, your skin chemically bonds with the barnacle like epoxy glue ... then one of you will eat the other, and it's fifty fifty odds who will eat who first ... rarely, the two form a symbiotic buddy-buddy relationship where they actually form a sort of eternal uncommon law marriage, but that's punishable by death in some counties (usually landlocked counties)
2007-05-17 11:37:50 · answer #4 · answered by autumn f 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They eat Plankton, they can live a whole season out of water, get back in the water, and are still alive. They attach themselves to the hull when THEY are "Plank tonic" themselves (small & free swimming). The bottom paint on your boat contains copper, the barnicle attached itself to the hull, the copper poison's the barnicle, it dies and falls off the hull before it can get it's "CRAZY GLUE" to set !
2007-05-17 15:16:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Floating plankton and small marine life/algae that comes their way. Not a very exciting life.
2007-05-17 12:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well shes 13 so shes old. shes probably losing sight and thinks its food
2016-05-22 00:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋