Captive Bred Baby Cuttlefish

[brahm]

1 Captive Bred Baby Cuttlefish for sale. 80.00$ Very small 1"-1.5" changes colour like no other!

[GAD]

Hey brahm, could you post some care instructions on keeping a cuttlefish. How big do they get, what do they eat, do they need a species only tank?

[GAD]

well I found a little something if anyone is interested:

http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/cuttle3.html

[SDRotary]

www.tonmo.com is a good resourse for cephalopods as well.

[brahm]

http://www.stickycricket.com/cuttle/

pretty good info..but as of right now I'm going to have to temporarly take it off for sale, to make sure it's going to surrive.

[Trickman2]

Are you breeding them?

[brahm]

no I picked up to captive bred cuttles. They are no longer available.

[wwxc]

I worked at the National Zoo back in high school in the invertebrate departement. We had a hell of a time keeping our baby cuttles alive past about a month to six weeks. Extremely easy to stress out, finicky with eating and pretty sensitive to water conditions.

In my opinion they're best left to the experts. If you're aching for a cephalopod, both the octopus and nautilus are much easier to maintain.

[brahm]

Originally posted by wwxc
I worked at the National Zoo back in high school in the invertebrate departement. We had a hell of a time keeping our baby cuttles alive past about a month to six weeks. Extremely easy to stress out, finicky with eating and pretty sensitive to water conditions.

In my opinion they're best left to the experts. If you're aching for a cephalopod, both the octopus and nautilus are much easier to maintain.

I heard nautilus were impossible due to the fact they are from deep waters and they don't get used to the lower pressure.

[wwxc]

We kept them fine. Don't know where or how they were collected though. It probably has mainly to do with the acclimation to the lower pressure. It they just get netted at 200 feet and taken to the surface right away I'm sure they'll kick it quickly.

[brahm]

Originally posted by wwxc
We kept them fine. Don't know where or how they were collected though. It probably has mainly to do with the acclimation to the lower pressure. It they just get netted at 200 feet and taken to the surface right away I'm sure they'll kick it quickly.

Hmm cuttlefish are awsome though, I don't know how old the babies were, but sadly they didn't make it. I don't think I acclimated them long enough.. I got nervous that they were going to ink in the bags, and die. Next time I'm going to take my time and acclimate them for 2-3 hours+

[GAD]

Were they eating? i heard the babies need live mysis shrimp in very large quantities. very expensive to raise for the first four weeks or so from what I have read. Some guy was spending $1000 a week to feed a few juveniles.

[brahm]

Originally posted by GAD
Were they eating? i heard the babies need live mysis shrimp in very large quantities. very expensive to raise for the first four weeks or so from what I have read. Some guy was spending $1000 a week to feed a few juveniles.

They didn't make it long enough to eat.. I found the second one had passed after I had returned with a bag of ghost shrimp to attempt to feed it.

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