My Cuttlefish

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Here are some pics of my 7 month old sepia bandensis in his 35 gal softy reef

here is the link for more photos

http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7424
 
dewarf cuttle season starts in november so i should have quite a few by dec, ohh yea he is great, ill try to post some videos of him hunting fiddler crabs later
 
Oh my goodness!!! I want! Where do you get these? What are their requirments and do you think it would dow well in a tank with a thornback cow fish?
 
here is an article about them http://www.tonmo.com/cephcare/cuttlefish.php


and there are a few places that can get them in occasionally but they are hard to come by
 
I've been wanting to try and keep a small cephalopod of sorts for a while now. I wouldn't mind a cuttlefish but my girlfriend is set on an octopus if I get one.
 
I think that is awesome! I just don't think I could have an animal that only lives for 13 months or less. It would really stink to have to replce it.
-Chuck
 
yes that is the proublem with all cephlopods, short lived, but i find they are much more entertaining, and that makes up for the short time you get to have them. i raised this cuttle from an egg so i get to see the full change in it from egg, to adult.
 
i payed three $ an egg, i bought ten, six hatched and were going great until i went on vacation, and the person taking care forgot to feed them for 4 days and all i had was one fat one when i got home. so let say he cost me 30 initialy
 
@Animal Mother wrote:
Wow. If you come across a deal like that again please let me know! said:
I agree, please post if that deal comes up again. In the meantime I am off to learn as much about them as I can.
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They seem really cool! Could you post a small video of your. I would love to see it in action. I read that they are like the humming birds of the sea.
-Chuck
 
Love it i want one, just need one more tank so i have a place

why when i ask about getting one everybody gets defensive of the animal and tells me that i shouldn't get one etc etc etc, even though i never said i was getting one

here is the link
http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=19382
 
Their heart's in the right place. When it boils down to it, if we did what was morally right for every creature in the "pet" category, we wouldn't have any fish for sure. Not to mention other creatures.

I may be closer than I know to having an Octopus. :twisted:

Probably setting another tank up this week if the girlfriend's cool with it.
 
they are correct in what they say for most species of cuttle, sepia pharonis* (the cuttlefish that they have a DWA) do get very big and are realy hard to keep. however the dewarf species sepia bandensis comes from much warmer waters(indonesia, philippines) and is small enough that a single individual can be held in a tank as small as 20 gal. this is not to say that they are not time-consuming and high maintenence. My cuttlefish has to be fed live food daily (although some have had success on frozen) A Dewarf cuttlefish is reef safe( it will not harm coral, hard shelled inverts...) it will eat any fish its size or smaller, and all shrimp/crabs(not hermits). i plan to get more eggs around october/november so i should have babies then. i you would like i have some pics of them as babies that i can post
 
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