The environment of bivalve Sanguinolaria rostrata growth and reproduction is affected by temperature, salinity and algal concentration.The growth and fattening of the bivalves is closely associated with filter-feeding. Hence, the present work was to investigate the effect of temperature, salinity and algal concentration on the filter-feeding of the bivalves. The salinity ranging from 5 to 30 at the interval of 5 psu, four temperatures at 20¢X, 25¢X, 27¢X and 30¢J, and three algal concentrations of each Isochrysis galbana and each Chaetoceros gracilis, 104 , 105 and 106 cells/ml, were used. Algal concentration was measured each hour and each test run last for 6 hours. A peak appeared at the salinity of 20 psu in each clearance rate vs salinity curve and clearance rate decreased with increasing algal concentration; a peak also appeared at the salinity of either 15¡ã20 psu in the ingestion rate vs salinity curve; and ingestion rate and the amount of pseudofaeces increased with increasing algal concentration. Under the conditions of algal concentration 104 cells/ml and temperature range 20¢X~30¢J, a peak appeared at 25¢J in each clearance rate and each ingestion rate vs temperature curves, and the greatest peak of clearance rate was 1.13 l/h; and the amount of pseudofaeces was the greatest at 25¢J and 20 psu. The bivalves fed with Isochrysis galbana have greater clearance and ingestion rates but less amount of pseudofaeces, compared to those fed with Chaetoceros gracilis.