3.Food, temperature and predation pressure directly act on the value of venturous revenue and are major environmental factors affecting DVM of the copepod.
5 to 7 days' larve after hatching larvae mostly lived on copepod nauplii, copepodites and trochophore of Polychaeta in water of the earthen ponds, apart from feeding on particulate organic detritus.
They constituted three quarters of the copepods diets By contrast in colonies where El Polyedra were able to glow normally the dinoflagellates formed only a quarter of the copepod diet.