Cuttlefish!!!

I fear for the cuttle. My bimac would go nuts when I would swim a plastic cuttle by the tank on the end of a stick. If the bimac can catch it ... it will eat it. My bimac even caught a domino damsel. Now thats a feat! Mike you need to set up a few more tanks for your addiction lol. And I thought I was bad:D
 
Mike
Octos are way stronger than a cuttle. IF The octo grabs the cuttle, it will be over quick.
I think you need to throw in a nice 6" smasher mantis shrimp to make this really interesting. Perhaps a peacock mantis. The one I have will smash a turbo snail the size of a golf ball to bits! Check out this link and see why I got hooked on them. http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/
 
Ok, here's the tally so far:

I still have only one octo alive in the tank. I came home to one dead octo in the tank and one alive in a package. Looks like the cuttle may be the only ceph in the tank after all if this keeps up! Maybe he is poisioning the octos or something. I took some pictures of the new guy, but they were too dark. I'll try again this weekend. I did manage to get the new octo to eat a ghost shrimp and a frozen shrimp stabbed by a rod of stiff airline tubing! I tried the tubing thing with the cuttle with no dice. He only seems to go for live food actually swimming on it's own, go figure. I also had a few small guppies in my bag of ghost shrimp, but the cuttle never pursued them. He let them swim right in front of him, but never attacked.

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
Perhaps octo1 died of shipping stress and maybe wasnt connected to the cuttlefish. So the rigid airline worked then? I think it is maybe because it is see-through that it never seems to stress out an octo or cuttle, they usually always spot the food on the end though!

The cuttle wouldnt poison the octo unless it bit the octo, but you would never see that happeing unless you happened to be standing there at the time.

did you ever try black mollies with the cuttle, remember they can live in full sea water no probs if you give them a couple of hours to acclimitise.

C
 
I just don't think black mollies would be small enough for the cuttle to eat right now. He is only about twice the size of an adult molly. Eve the biggest ghost shrimp is only about half the size of an adult molly. I guess I could leave some of them in there and see. Will they spawn in seawater too? That would be a good way to get some extra food for freee if they did.

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
Chris,

On the first order of two octos, one arrived alive and the other arrived dead. The one that arrived alive from that order is now dead. The one on the second order arrived alive and is currently in my tank. Hopefully he will be alive when I go check on him at lunch. I did a water test after the first guy died, and I saw no major spikes in the levels and the salinity was right at 1.025. The octo that died in the tank was probably dead in the first 24 hours. I just didn't notice until I got home from work the next day when it was out in th open and not moving.

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
Hi Mike

On a size scale thing....... When my cuttles were the same size as mollies they could snag them no probs. I think yours would manage them, wortha try......

Hope octo2 is okay
C
 
Are you asking Jack for credit for the ones that died in your tank? Seems to be alot of strees in your tank right now or some hideen water quality issue. Jack is a excellent shipper.
 
Well, they were nice enough to replace the first guy that died on arrival, so I didn't bug them about the other one dieing. Should I? I don't see what could be wrong with my tank since the cuttle is doing just fine in it and they are supposed to be much more sensitive than the octos.

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
Yeah, as long as it gets to me alive then it's fine. Here is a picture of the bimac from lunch today. Sorry it is so blurry, but my digital camera isn't so hot. The eyeball in the center of the rock opening is the octo's eye. He was looking out for something to eat, and I gave him a piece of live shrimp with the tubing again. No sign of the cuttle at lunch. Who knows.

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
Mike
Whats going on with the cephs in the 135? The bimac and cuttle still alive? I saw you were thinkng about putting sea horses in it too now?
chris
 
Well,

Everything is going great so far. The cuttle is in one rock formation on the left side of the tank and the bimac is in another rock formation on the right side of the tank. I have continued to feed using Colin's method of the food on the tip of the rigid airline tubing. The octo goes for it right away, and the cuttle sometimes goes for it. I have also successfully fed both animals frozen shrimp this way. The octo seemed to eat more of the shrimp than the cuttle did, however. I am really impressed with this octopus compared to the last guys I had. First off, he is much bigger than the others I had. Second, I have seen him more during the day than I have at night! I also have some mollies in the tank for extra food for the cephs. Two of them were eaten within the first few days, and I have two left in the tank. I'm not sure if the octo or the cuttle got them. They also might have died and been eaten later. Anyway, all is good so far, and I'll work on getting some better pictures soon!

Mike

www.schmunkel.0catch.com
 
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