eggs hatched

[HSHREDDER18]

so i'm trying my luck with cuttlefish eggs got three of them about 2 weeks ago. I was get a little nervious because i didnt think the eggs were going to hatch. but when i woke up this morning i seen this little guy looking at me. I'm so happy. Now the adventure begins. I'll try to get pics up after i get back from work and hopefully the other 2 have hatched.

 

[JHemdal]

Our's hatched a couple of weeks ago (4 out of 5 eggs). They seem to prefer hiding underneath things, and that can make them difficult to find. One trick we used is that the rearing tank has a sponge filter in it. We raised the filter about 1/2" from the bare tank bottom, and the cuttles congregate there where we can get a better visual on them.
These cuttles starting taking juvenile live mysids right away and now they are taking adult mysids. I had heard that they would go days after hatching before eating, but ours started right off. I wonder if it has something to do with some eggs hatching earlier than others, and the resulting youngsters having differing amounts of yolk remaining?

I think live mysids are imperative with feeding these. We tried some amphipods and one of the larger pods latched onto a cuttle's eye and damaged it....


Jay

 

[HSHREDDER18]

I'm going to try live brine going to fatten them up with something first before i try to feed the cuttle's

 

[Thales]

Live brine generally isn't a good ceph food. Hatchling cuttles may eat it, but they fail to thrive.

Jay is right about amphipods as a first food - they are too strong. Hatchling cuttles seem to have a learning and strength curve and may be fine with amphipods after they get a little bigger.

It is also quite easy to get the hatchlings weaned onto thawed frozen food if you have enough current in the tank to keep the mysis moving.

 

[seababy]

anyone heard of ick coming from brime?

 

[Koshmar]

I had a strong current going and never weaned mine off of live mysis. They do have a learning curve which can be funny to watch. My bandensis, for the longest time, couldn't catch any mysis because it kept missing with the feeding tenticles. It finally learned though, so no need to fear about them not catching anything. After it got a little bigger I released it into my main twenty long tank and my pod population still hasn't recovered so when they're bigger they certainly can catch a number of pods.

I only used brine shrimp once when I couldn't get live mysis, in general like the others said, they do best on those guys which gets quite expensive.

 

[Chad Vossen]

can their first food be munnid isopods? i have a fish system with a tank divided into 8 sections. water flows through, no powerheads or intakes in 7 of those sections and TONS of munnid isopods. it just now hit me these sections could make a great nursery for baby cuttles.