Life span of octos and cuttlefish?

[B Pierce]

I would really love an octo or cuttlefish but I read that they only live for a year or less. Is this true? What lives longer and octo or cuttlefish?

thanks,
Bill

 

[MitchMC]

Re: Life span of octos and cuttlefish?

I would really love an octo or cuttlefish but I read that they only live for a year or less. Is this true? What lives longer and octo or cuttlefish?

thanks,
Bill

They tend to be short lived and are not easly kept without some work and prep here is a good place to start :smokin:

 

[nini]

YES,SADLY OCTOS ONLY LIVE 4 ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF

 

[Gonodactylus]

Life span depends on species, temperature, amount of food and sexual activity just to name a few factors. You can't generalize for all octpus. Some cold and/or deepwater species live for several years; some pygmy species less than a year. Unless you obtain a juvenile, something like O. mercatoris or O. bocki will be with you only 2 to 4 months. When I get adult blue-rings, I usually expect them to live two or three months at most.

Roy

 

[nini]

Gonodactylus is right,even the pygmy can only reach up to about half a year,and bimacs a year and a half, like i said.

 

[Ochi]

I've never heard of somebody's bimac lasting that long. On average I've heard of between 6-10 months. Long cases are a year.

 

[nini]

its true though, in good conditions a bimac can live any were from a year, or a little over

 

[gio17vani]

Where do you guys even get these. I've been in 100's of fish stores all around the country and never had the chance to see one. Are they mainly special order only with no guarantee that they will even make it alive?

 

[exoticaquatix]

the LFS i work at gets them from the caribbean every few shipments if we order them. they are in the store about a day or too and they are sold. i bought one of the last 2 we got love her. i havent seen more than her eye for the last few days but still enjoy her. she has a 55 gallon to her self and despite the novelty i dont think ill get another one. dont get me wrong, this octo is by far the coolest single creature ive ever had but i just dont have the space right now. id rather have a reef or FOWLR as opposed to OOIAHTWLR (one octo in a huge tank with live rock).

 

[exoticaquatix]

well, my oct laid eggs, so now its a matter of time before her tank gets changed into a full reef.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

exoticaquatix,

you wouldnt happen to work at... Exotic Aquatics, now would you?

What species do you get?

 

[exoticaquatix]

yes i do as a matter of fact, haha. howd ya guess?
im pretty sure she was a bimaculatus. chris (cephalopoder) is a great referance on octos he has a site but i forget the address.
i might have some babies available in a few months depending on how many eggs hatch. George at Seawater Express is raising the eggs for me. if you guys ever need shrimp for your octos look him up, hes a great guy. i think ill be bringing some babies in to Exotic Aquatics depending on what the owners say.

 

[Thales]

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