@joep5958 So they can reject excess food... I've tried feeding adult Brine Shrimp Baker's Yeast suspensions, and you see a mass of yeast form at their mouths, and then their gut turns white as it fills with yeast. After a few minutes, they start pooping apparently undigested yeast, because they can't stop eating. Brine Shrimp have been sold in their resting oocyst stage as 'Sea Monkeys' for at least 60 years, and now they're being sold as 'Aqua Dragons'. I haven't tried feeding Philodina rotifers unlimited amounts of food; they process food with their pharyngeal 'teeth' before it passes to their gut.
Such big food vacuoles...
Many filter feeders seem largely or completely incapable of limiting food intake if food is superabundant.
It seemed to go until it literally couldn't fit anymore in. I sat for a while longer watching it but they were just bouncing out every time
@joep5958 So they can reject excess food... I've tried feeding adult Brine Shrimp Baker's Yeast suspensions, and you see a mass of yeast form at their mouths, and then their gut turns white as it fills with yeast. After a few minutes, they start pooping apparently undigested yeast, because they can't stop eating.
Brine Shrimp have been sold in their resting oocyst stage as 'Sea Monkeys' for at least 60 years, and now they're being sold as 'Aqua Dragons'.
I haven't tried feeding Philodina rotifers unlimited amounts of food; they process food with their pharyngeal 'teeth' before it passes to their gut.
Absolute glutton haha
Watching this I just image him smashing a plate full of pizza rolls that he knows is too big and I can physically feel the heartburn