eggs might be hatcing soon, but not prepared w/ live foods

[friedoysterskin]

my cuttle eggs are hatching soon, but i dont have any live foods except amphipods. I was wondering if i can feed them dead mysis and add some flow so the dead mysis can tumble around tricking the cuttles into thinking it's live, would this be possible? i also have dead rotiers. other option would be to collect amphipods, but i dont know if they would it them.

 

[gholland]

Amphipods should be good. Live mysids would be great too. A few guys that breed cuttles on TONMO have talked about using basters to made frozen foods move... Thales also mentions a "fishing pole" type method in entry #59 of this thread:
http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11718&page=3

 

[gholland]

You might want to order mysids until the hatchlings reach 1 or 2 inches in length. Try aquaculturestore.com or mysidshrimp.com

 

[friedoysterskin]

I would rather not order anything online, shipping cost way too much $$$. I think i may have another option, my lfs has a bunch of pregnant peppermint shrimps, can i use those babies to feed the cuttle fry?

 

[gholland]

They will probably work... my concern is quantity. You really need input from one of the guys who breeds cuttles. They come through here once in a while, but if you post this in the cuttle forum at TONMO.com and you'll get a much quicker response.

 

[Animal Mother]

Raising cuttles is an expensive endeavor. Not really any way around it. The only reason I got another octo isntead of cuttle eggs.