Does anyone have any experience with Octopus or Cuttlefish?

[cephalofoil]

I'll upload a video of the ones I worked with once I get to my laptop. They were great. Very curious and outgoing animals. I only have vids of the ones that were reaching the end of their lives though. So they weren't very active during the feeding.

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[krichardson]

That should be nice to see...I've never kept any cuttlefish,wanted to though and years before I knew anything about saltwater I saw a chambered nautilus in a store and I was hooked ever since then.

 

[Aw3s0m3]

That should be nice to see...I've never kept any cuttlefish,wanted to though and years before I knew anything about saltwater I saw a chambered nautilus in a store and I was hooked ever since then.

I would love to have one of those but they need such cold water and they don't really do much :/ I feel bad for all the ones in lfs because they put them in tropical environments and try usually die within a month


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[krichardson]

Yeah they come from such depths their health is probably affected somehow by bringing them up...I have only seen that one in a store years ago and that's a good thing.

 

[cephalofoil]

had some computer trouble but here it is.
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again, these guys were getting to the end of their lives, so their eyesight was going, which explains why they couldn't grab the frozen krill. You'll see the two males display with eachother when the current pushes the krill into the cave.

my favorite part about them is the prey capture method they have. When they see prey all 8 arms will point at it. They have a very specific strike distance, if it's too far they will miss, if too close they will readjust until they are at the right range. Unless the prey moves at the last second, the two clubbed tentacles will shoot from the center of the arms and grab the prey.

The adults will not strike unless the distance is correct. When i watched newly hatched cuttles, you can see them learning the proper distance, if they'd miss, they'd move closer the next time. Cool little guys.

 

[Lady Blast]

awwwww thanks for that vid, they are SO adorable!!!!!!! That is so sad that they don't live long I couldn't handle the depression every year!!!

 

[cephalofoil]

awwwww thanks for that vid, they are SO adorable!!!!!!! That is so sad that they don't live long I couldn't handle the depression every year!!!

we were lucky that these 2 males were mating with 4 other females during the peak of their youth, so we had baskets and baskets of eggs and various juveniles ranging from new borns to a few months old. Another tough problem with the newly hatched babies is that they constantly need to feed. They hatch at around maybe half an inch long, and they're exact replicas of their parents just tinier. They only take live mysis shrimp for the first month or so, so you can imagine how much mysis they go through when you have over 50 babies at that size haha.

unfortunately I don't have any pictures or videos of the babies, but here's a picture of the aragonite cuttlebone from one of the babies that died. This one was maybe a month old at most. That's a dime for size reference.

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

That should be nice to see...I've never kept any cuttlefish,wanted to though and years before I knew anything about saltwater I saw a chambered nautilus in a store and I was hooked ever since then.

I would love to have one of those but they need such cold water and they don't really do much :/ I feel bad for all the ones in lfs because they put them in tropical environments and try usually die within a month


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Are you guys for real? They sell nautilus in the hobby? That's messed up, I thought those were only allowed to be taken care of in public aquariums. they have the most specilaized setup I've seen.. all dark, a strict no flash policy, if they Ink then they have to do a basically 100% WC. At both aquariums I've seen them at they even had a person making sure people weren't using flash. The only exhibit with a guard.

Sorry for the derail I'm just amazed right now. And dissapointed lol. I've always thought about owning some sort of cephlapod but I think I'll go for the Mimic when the time comes

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[Aw3s0m3]

Are you guys for real? They sell nautilus in the hobby? That's messed up, I thought those were only allowed to be taken care of in public aquariums. they have the most specilaized setup I've seen.. all dark, a strict no flash policy, if they Ink then they have to do a basically 100% WC. At both aquariums I've seen them at they even had a person making sure people weren't using flash. The only exhibit with a guard.

Sorry for the derail I'm just amazed right now. And dissapointed lol. I've always thought about owning some sort of cephlapod but I think I'll go for the Mimic when the time comes

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Ya. Unfortunately they do I would love to keep one but they're just too specialized and they really don't do much. When it comes to inking though, that's what you have to do when any cephalopod inks. I've heard if you turn off all the pumps immediately, you can just scoop out the ink with a net cuz it's really dense but I'd rather play it safe and still do a large wc after trying to scoop it out.


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[drewbiezy]

I've kept a few different species of octopi in the past,including a blue ring.

You just became more of my hero than you already were

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