Imagine being 4metres tall and 4 tonnes in weight! It may sound like the ocean sunfish is bound to be a predator, but it is practically harmless.
Food
All ocean sunfish’s main diet consists of is jellyfish, salps, zooplankton, comb jellies, squid, algae, crustaceans and small fishes.
Age
Whilst in captivity sunfish can live for up to around 10 years, yet a natural age in the open ocean has not yet been discovered.
Although ocean sunfish are non-predatorial fish they can sometimes be mistaken for sharks due to their dorsal fin being like a sharks.
So all in all sunfish are a very fascinating species of fish but still not much is known about them so that is why this article is so short.
Food
All ocean sunfish’s main diet consists of is jellyfish, salps, zooplankton, comb jellies, squid, algae, crustaceans and small fishes.
Age
Whilst in captivity sunfish can live for up to around 10 years, yet a natural age in the open ocean has not yet been discovered.
Although ocean sunfish are non-predatorial fish they can sometimes be mistaken for sharks due to their dorsal fin being like a sharks.
So all in all sunfish are a very fascinating species of fish but still not much is known about them so that is why this article is so short.