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What natives eat copepods?


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#1 DaveW

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Posted 25 March 2020 - 08:42 PM

Virtually everyone eats Daphnia (and other cladocera), but who eats copepods, which are much smaller?

 

I need to know this for my biology class, which I'm putting online, as I sample phytoplankton and zooplankton in a series of ponds and put it all on line (using my GoPro) in the time of coronavirus.

 

I've always had the impression that copepods are too small for most fish to bother with, but somebody must be eating them--maybe mostly fry?

 

 



#2 Moontanman

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Posted 25 March 2020 - 09:12 PM

I would say all of them at some stage of life.


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#3 centrarchid

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Posted 27 March 2020 - 08:33 AM

Adult Bluegill and many minnows can eat them What fish assemblage are you looking at?


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#4 centrarchid

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Posted 27 March 2020 - 08:36 AM

Fliers less than 2" can eat such small fare, as can similar-sized and smaller Pirate Perch. The copepods are larger than the brine shrimp nauplii I feed to many fish that are not feed trained.


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