i would like to get one of those but from the way it sounds those are even harder to come by around here (cincinnati, oh) than an octopus. Not unless someone knows of someone around these parts that i could pick one up at.....
Octopus help
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shep;665710; said:
The best and easiest way to obtain them is to order them. Usually you will have to get them overseas in areas such as the UK. If you are considering keeping cuttlefish, try your best to get them shipped as eggs and try to hatch them because live cuttlefish are horrible shippers. If they ink once you can kiss them good by. A guy I work with is trying to breed cuttlefish, it's been awsome seeing how much they have grown with in a two month span.
-justin
Much easier to get over here, because as said, many die, but i think there are more and more captive breeders over there, and although shipping the eggs would be your best bet for import, you should be able to source some over there if your lucky.
The only ones I have are two bimacs. They are little pains in the arse!! You def. need to be carefull when cleaning the tank, especially once they start to grow and get territorial. And keeping them IN the tank is an adventure within its self.
davo;670210; said:
Like in that video, I have used the little containers to place their food into (the ones you get in quarter machines at grocery stores and such). As far as puzzles, not so much, but I do give them random objects to play with. I have "boxes" I use (one of my nephews abandoned toys, lol, it came in a set of five, each one smaller than the next, and able to stack inside of each other - make sense?). They have open tops, and are bright colors, which I have found my little guys to love. Sometimes I just throw them in all stacked into each other, and then they will take them apart one at a time, and other times I lay them out over the sand bed, and place them upside down (open side down) and put treats in them, so they can turn them over and get the food. Other times I have metal rings my dad made (coated in silicone) - think chain links, but larger. There is only 7 rings on it, but they seem to love it, they twist it around, drag it with them, crunch it up, stretch it out, and wave it around, lol. They are dorks, but it's entertaining. I try to keep them stimulated, with those and a variety of other toys I have. They have "play-time" two hours each day, with me monitoring them. I alternate their toys to keep them active and not get bored.
For constant stimuli, seperate from "play-time", I have bobbers on the surface - yes the same you use to fish with. They absolutly LOVE to grab them and then let them go making them "pop" out of the water and bobble around - too funny. This tends to keep their attention away from getting out. I have 7, all different colors, and it's interesting to see that clearly they can distinguish colors since they will pick one or two at a time and repeatedly go for the same one to pull it back under. It's alomost like baby-sitting sometimes because they do get bored if they cant play all the time.
I've got to say i always loved octupus and cuttlefish species, but i have to say, your description just makes me want an octo even more. lol. It's amazing to have something that needs to be occupied. Like a sea parrot or something. Anyway, asides from my crap description of a sea parrot, I saw a carribean species of octo, (can't remember unfortunately the exact) but it used a technique that was described as "tenting" where they kind of create a tent, or at least a marquee lol, leaving the preys only escape into the tent, and of course the mouth. Is this something all octos will do. I'll see if i can find a pic of one doing it.
Yes they do. In a sense they pounce on their prey and spread their bodies out using the webbing between their tentacles to seal off the animal, and well I obviously have not been inside of one of their "tents" - nor would I want to, lol, but they then open their beaks and squish their bodies down, eliminating the space for the animal to move, directing it right to their mouth. Poor lil pishy!! LOL does look cool though!davo;670265; said:
