The analysis of live prey size showed that body depth (DL) was
always the smallest measured dimension (Table 1). Copepod nauplii
were the smallest available live preys throughout the experimental
rearing, followed by trochophores, and rotifer B. plicatilis. Larval stages
of tychobenthonic copepod T. holoturiae were the smallest prey in
length and body depth among the copepods (except the naupliar