While the preferred diet of cuttlefish is crabs and fish, they feed on small shrimp shortly after hatching.Cuttlefish use their camouflage to hunt and sneak up on their prey.[20] They swim at the bottom, where shrimp and crabs are found and shoot out a jet of water to uncover the prey buried in the sand. Then when the prey tries to get away, the cuttlefish open their eight arms and shoot out two long feeding tentacles to grab them. On the end of each, a pad covered in suckers grabs and pulls prey toward its beak, where it gets paralyzed by poison and then eaten.