DWhatley suggested that I look to you and your Thesis for more info. On looking in your references, I saw several sources that I plan to look into regarding octopus diet and nutrition (probably this weekend), so now I ask if you might know of any sources you might recommend that focus specifically on (or at least pay special attention to somewhere in the body of the text) the dietary needs of larval cephalopods, progressive minimum (and maximum) acceptable food particle size for larval cephalopods throughout their development and maturation (and maybe a good rule-of-thumb for determining acceptable size of not-intact-single-prey-item food particles in order to induce successful feeding in adults), and what specific cues may trigger feeding behavior. Any help is appreciated, and if you are too busy (or simply don't know any such sources off the top of your head) that's fine. Any actual research of this nature into aquaculture would probably be a good way off for me, so I'm in no hurry.Cephkid;183906 said:Anyone know of any resources going into great detail about cephalopod nutritional requirements, specifically minimum food particle size, what forms of carbohydrates and lipids are digestible, what general qualities are required for a food source to be recognized and accepted as such by the animal, and what constitutes a "healthy" diet? I'm taking a course on plankton biology right now, and I was wondering about the viability of using algal species (probably in the form of a condensed pellet) to supplement microcrustaceans in the diet of larval cephalopods in aquaculture. I'm sure it's a silly idea (why I didn't put this in the physiology forum), but I was hoping to just get a look around.