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Both marine and freshwater mussels are filter feeders; they feed on plankton and other microscopic sea creatures which are free-floating in seawater. So they are omnivores, they eat both plants and animals

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Blue mussels are filter feeders, not herbivores. They consume tiny particles like plankton and algae that they filter from the water using their gills.

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producer Producers make their own food using the process of photosynthesis, ie are plants. Mussels are living mollascs and are herbivores.

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Most mussels are herbivores. However it depends on the mussel type.

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Blue mussels are filter feeders, which means they are neither carnivores nor herbivores. They feed by filtering tiny plankton and other particles from the water using their gills.


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