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Octopus bimaculoides Care Sheet (two-spot octopus)Hi @Nancy đź‘‹
you may have missed this one from @genericusername, so I'm tagging it for your attention.
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Octopus bimaculoides Care Sheet (two-spot octopus)Hi Nancy. I just had a few questions. I haven't begun salt tank keep just yet. I've mastered my 40gal rech eco tank and the husbandry that comes...
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Octopus Pet Checklist: Before You Get An Octopus as a Pet...This was the first time I learned that octopuses could be pets. Perhaps this acts soothingly, just as fish do for many people. In my opinion, they...
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Octopus bimaculoides Care Sheet (two-spot octopus)I think you’d like keeping a bimac. But I think any octopus would prefer having your live rock spread out a bit mare to make accessible caves. Nancy- Nancy
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Octopus bimaculoides Care Sheet (two-spot octopus)I can control my tank temp easily between 67 degrees-75degrees Fahrenheit depending on what species I’m keeping. It’s a 55gal pLus 15gal sump with...- ACC4
Latest Articles
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Terrance the Oklahoman Octopus, Her Babies, and Another Bimac of NoteForeward by Tony Morelli (tonmo) As a member of the TONMO community, unless you've been living...
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Featured articles
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Ink's Story (O. bimaculoides)
By Carol Sauer (corw314) Editor's Note: Carol created this article for Jersey Pets Magazine (Editor: Lisa A. Kelley). Lisa's Website can be visited at www.jerseypetsmagazine.com. The article is slated to be published in their Jan/Feb issue. Thanks to Jersey Pets Magazine for spreading the good...- Original publish date
- Mar 15, 2003
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- 6 min read
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Octopus and Squid Measures, Indices and Counts
A Guide to Frequently Used Characters, Character States and Measures Last updated: 11/27/02 Frequently cited anatomical characters, structures, organ systems, measures and ratios employed in descriptions of cirrate and incirrate octopods are depicted in figures 1-6: Figure 1 (click image...- Original publish date
- Nov 27, 2002
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Giant Squid and Colossal Squid Fact Sheet
An analysis of the size of the largest cephalopods: Architeuthis and Mesonychoteuthis Authored by Dr. Steve O'Shea and Dr. Kat Bolstad Steve and Kat are members of the TONMO staff. You can communicate with them both in our Cephalopod Science forums. INTRODUCTION TO FACT SHEETS To ensure...- Contributing Authors
- Dr. Steve O'Shea, Dr. Kat Bolstad
- Original publish date
- Apr 6, 2008
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Fossil Hunting on the Yorkshire Coast
By Andy Tenny (neuropteris) The Yorkshire Coast of England exposes a series of marine and terrestrial rocks ranging in age from the lower Jurassic at Cleveland in the north through to the chalk of the Upper Cretaceous at Flamborough Head in the South. Many of these formations are highly...- Original publish date
- Nov 21, 2004
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Visit to the NRCC (2002)
Two TONMO.com moderators met face to face in the autumn of 2002: Colin Dunlop traveled from Scotland to Texas to help Nancy King set up her saltwater aquarium and to accompany Nancy and her husband Bill to Galveston, where Colin and Nancy visited the National Research Center for Cephalopods...- Contributing Authors
- Colin Dunlop and Nancy King
- Original publish date
- Dec 16, 2002
By Dr. Steve O'Shea
Note: Steve welcomes discussion in TONMO's Architeuthidae forum.
S. O'SHEA
Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute
Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 92 006
Auckland, New Zealand
ARCHITEUTHIS BUOYANCY AND FEEDING
Here we present a little scientific...
- Original publish date
- Mar 15, 2003
Gut contents of a giant squid Architeuthis dux (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida) from New Zealand waters
By Dr. Steve O'Shea and Dr. Kat Bolstad (Tintenfisch)
Authored: May 2, 2003 / Posted: Jan. 2, 2006
Note: Steve and Kat welcome discussion in TONMO.com's Physiology & Biology forum.
K. S. BOLSTAD...
- Contributing Authors
- Dr. Kat Bolstead
- Original publish date
- May 3, 2003
Last Updated: 4/5/18
Welcome! We're very excited about our next cephalopod conference, TONMOCON VII at Marine Biological Laboratory — Biological Discovery in Woods Hole from April 6-8, 2018.
General info and past history can be found here: TONMOCON: The Biennial Cephalopod Conference...
By Carol Sauer (corw314)
Editor's Note: Carol created this article for Jersey Pets Magazine (Editor: Lisa A. Kelley). Lisa's Website can be visited at www.jerseypetsmagazine.com. The article is slated to be published in their Jan/Feb issue. Thanks to Jersey Pets Magazine for spreading the good...
- Original publish date
- Mar 15, 2003
Location: Mote, Sarasota, Florida
Date: June 23rd (informal) and 24th (presentations)
Hey everybody! Here is our agenda for TONMOCON II in Sarasota, Florida, at Mote on June 23rd and 24th. Dr. Steve O'Shea will be joining us and will be our "headline" speaker, addressing the topic of 'Giant...
by Tony Morelli 8/9/05
TONMO.com held its first Conference in Monterey, California on August 5, 6 and 7, 2005. Check out our dedicated forum (with lots more pics). So, here's my account:
Friday: me and my family arrived in the afternoon, and basically took it easy. Went out for ice cream...
By Tony Morelli
Thales' cuttlefish/squid hybrid tattoo
The TONMO Image Gallery contains dozens of images of cephalopod tattoos, broken down into three categories:octopus, cuttlefish, and squid. Cephalopod tattoos are one of the most popular subjects on TONMO -- our gallery has millions of...
- Original publish date
- Nov 23, 2006
I'm writing this article to document the result of adding an octopus to an established fish tank. On April 15, 2009 I caught a batch of six newly hatched O. briareus from one of my commercial stone crab traps in Biscayne Bay Miami, Florida. All six juveniles were placed into a fully-stocked 125...
- Original publish date
- Mar 7, 2013
What follows is TONMO.com's exclusive interview conducted 2/3/02 with famed marine author and artist Richard Ellis (read full bio). Richard spoke a bit about recent events and his current work.
TONMO.com: You are known as both an artist and a leading historian of the ocean. What came first for...
- Contributing Authors
- Richard Ellis, interviewed by Tony Morelli
- Original publish date
- Feb 3, 2002
Reviewed by Nancy King
Cephalopods, A World Guide is an attractive guide that covers the octopuses, argonauts, cuttlefish, squid and nautilus of the world. Several TONMO community members have already recommended this outstanding reference work, which is published in Germany. Arranged by...
- Original publish date
- Feb 28, 2003
The following is excerpted from Monsters of the Sea, by Richard Ellis. Reproduced with permission of the author.
The killer octopus made its first cinema appearance in 1916.
Three years earlier, Charles Williamson had designed and built a "salvage machine" that consisted of a flexible tube...
- Contributing Authors
- Richard Ellis
- Original publish date
- May 31, 2003
Cephalopod through the ages
By Phil Eyden
May 2018 edit - also see this update from @Danna reflecting research through 2017!
- Original publish date
- Mar 19, 2004
What follows is TONMO.com's exclusive interview conducted 5/10/02 with marine biologist Dr. Steve O'Shea. Subsequent to this, for several years, Dr. O'Shea was a member of the TONMO.com Staff.
TONMO.com: How did you get into this field?
Steve O'Shea: By a series of complete accidents. My first...
- Contributing Authors
- Steve O'Shea, interviewed by Tony Morelli
- Original publish date
- May 10, 2002
Visit Skot Olsen's site here
1: Captain Obed Architeuthis
In 1998, artist Skot Olsen painted "Captain Obed Architeuthis," and introduced a figure into his work that has now become a recurrent, nearly obsessional motif. Captain Obed bobs in a row-boat, his head pinched between a rising sea...
- Original publish date
- Nov 17, 2003
Member-submitted videos from the earlier days of TONMO
Videos may not be reproduced without permission.. Sorry, them's the rules... These clips were graciously contributed and intended for this site only. If you have questions, drop me a line.
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9/25/06 - Broad...
- Original publish date
- Mar 10, 2008
Only two Giant squid have ever been washed ashore in England. Although half-a-dozen have come ashore in Scotland and Ireland or been caught in nets in the North Sea, the tale of England’s Architeuthis is a curious one.
Early on 14 January 1933, a group of bathers spotted a rather strange, inert...
- Original publish date
- Feb 23, 2020
by Colin Dunlop - 2004
Ever since I became interested in keeping cephalopods as pets I have tried very hard to help out other people as much as I can. This has included answering questions on message boards and posting pictures wherever possible.
My original site, soon to be discontinued, was...
- Original publish date
- Mar 9, 2004
Richard Ross (Thales) welcomes discussion on this article in the Exotics and Rare Species forum.
Octopus chierchiae is a small rarely seen octopus from Panama/Nicaragua. I was able to obtain 3 animals, 2 male and 1 female, and was able to mate them and have had a successful brood and hatching...
- Original publish date
- Jan 2, 2009
by Nancy King, January 2006
Three Years of Ceph Care
Looking back on the last three years of the Ceph Care Forum, I can see we've learned a lot and made progress in keeping our cephs well. I've had in mind for some time to write about how Ceph Care has evolved over these years and will make...
- Original publish date
- Jan 15, 2006
oc·to·pus
Pronunciation: 'äk-t&-p&s, -"pus
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -pus·es or oc·to·pi /-"pI/
Etymology: New Latin Octopod-, Octopus, from Greek oktOpous
Date: 1758
1 : any of a genus (Octopus) of cephalopod mollusks that have eight muscular arms equipped with...
- Contributing Authors
- Merriam-Webster
- Original publish date
- Mar 9, 2003
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