4. Discussion
Ration level caused dramatically different growth rates in the juvenile cephalopods,
indicating that the experiment did place at least the low ration animals under nutritional
stress. However, there was no evidence that the amount of food consumed resulted in biochemical differences in mantle muscle tissue. We found no evidence that protein,
lipid, and carbohydrate content could be used to provide an indicator of feeding history
in juvenile Sepioteuthis lessoniana and Sepia elliptica. As a result there is no evidence
that these measures of condition at the tissue level can be used to understand the effect
of feeding activity on growth rates and survivorship of wild individuals