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.
When the Federation starship is fired upon again, the quintotriticale spills in the corridors, and the tribbles feed on it, growing to a size so massive that the glommer can no longer devour them.