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?