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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
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The Chronicles of Raccoon: Everyday Adventures of a Baby Bimac OctopusOur house robot, @octobot (which is enabled by Chat-GPT4), has offered the following summary of...
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Featured articles
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
Covering Terminology used in the Description of Externally Shelled Cephalopods (Nautiloids and Ammonoids)
By Kevin Bylund
Note: Kevin welcomes discussion on this article in the Cephalopod Fossils forum.
The structure secreted by the mantle of cephalopods for protection or neutral buoyancy is...
- Original publish date
- Jan 1, 2005
Just in time for Valentine's Day 2012, Dr. Roy Caldwell shared some astonishing photos of two mating A. aculeatus. Note that these images are very rare and the quality is high.
Photos may not be reused without permission
Sea of Love
An Abdopus aculeatus male perches on a rock keeping an eye...
- Contributing Authors
- Dr. Roy Caldwell, Tony Morelli
- Original publish date
- Feb 14, 2012
Things to Think About Before You Get An Octopus as a Pet
by Nancy King
Nancy is a member of the TONMO.com staff -- you can discuss cephalopods with her and fellow TONMOers in our Octopus Care forum.
Keeping an octopus is fun and interesting, but an octopus is not the easiest pet to own. You...
- Original publish date
- Mar 1, 2004
By Nancy King, 2003
What Is Octopus Ink?
Inking Octopus by Steve O'Shea
The ink of the octopus, or any cephalopod, is composed of highly concentrated melanin. This is the same dark pigment that we humans have, and which is responsible for skin color and the color of dark hair. It is a natural...
- Original publish date
- Jun 1, 2003
The following PDF files were contributed to TONMO over the years for sharing with the community.
Summary of files
Estimating age and growth rate in Architeuthis dux
Steve O’Shea Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Caoimhghin Ó Maolagáin, National Institute of...
- Contributing Authors
- various
The following article was originally published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Spring 1998 issue Endeavors magazine.
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For generations, the monstrous-looking squid has inspired legends, tabloid headlines, and science fiction. But when you get right down to the meat of...
- Contributing Authors
- Elizabeth Zubritsky
- Original publish date
- Jun 10, 2003
RICHARD ELLIS is currently recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subjects in America. His paintings of whales have appeared in Audubon, National Wildlife, Australian Geographic, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and numerous other national and international publications. His...
- Contributing Authors
- supplied by press / biographer
- Original publish date
- Aug 20, 2002
I wrote this in 2004 when the community was actively engaging in cephalopod creative writing. I could never decipher the lyrics to Led Zeppelin's Walter's Walk, and so I used that title as a starting place to create a ceph story around it.
--Tony Morelli
CHAPTER ONE
McEagen knew it wouldn't be...
- Original publish date
- Apr 8, 2004
(Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae)
with comments on egg-mass susceptibility to damage by fisheries trawl
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 31: 161–166
0301–4223/04/3102–0161 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
Z03030; Online publication date 12 May 2004 Received 24 July 2003...
- Contributing Authors
- Dr. Steve O'Shea, Dr. Kat Bolstad
- Original publish date
- May 12, 2004
Wikipedia resource for historical strandings
When TONMO.com set out to create a comprehensive list of all giant and colossal squid specimen discoveries throughout history, TONMO.com member Archi sent me the following email:
I feel that this would be a good source of information for the new...
- Original publish date
- Mar 15, 2005
With good cause, the past 20 years has seen an explosion of articles, publications and books dealing with the impacts of climate change. Wolfgang Grulke's beautifully illustrated Beyond Extinction: The Eternal Ocean - Climate change & the continuity of life explores the organisms throughout...
- Original publish date
- Jul 26, 2019
A collection of cephalopod-themed poetry submitted to TONMO.
artwork by Nancy King
Poem: After Squid School
Pell-mell, they swish and brush and sweep
Tumbling in one promiscuous heap.
Until you wonder by what token
They 'scape with all their tentacles unbroken.
Bold, reckless, cunning, cool...
- Contributing Authors
- various
- Original publish date
- Mar 4, 2003
Artwork by Greg Ewald
Editor's note: In 2005, I asked Greg Ewald (@cthulhu77) and Erich Orser (@erich orser) to write an article to answer the popular TONMO.com visitor question, "what is Cthulhu?"... While this is not a holistic Cthulhu definition, a true, good description can be found in...
- Contributing Authors
- Greg Ewald and Erich Orser
- Original publish date
- Mar 13, 2005
Since 2005, every two years TONMO.com members and staff get together in a chosen city (usually near an aquarium or research center) for a day or two of intense cephalopod discussion and socializing.
It's open to everyone: students, hobbyists, professional biologists, and land-lubbers like me...
This excerpt from Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf is shared with TONMO to celebrate the book's birthday.
Sudden Death
To understand what caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the first challenge was to recognize that it...
Webmaster thoughts on the first photos of living giant squid, in 2005.
Note: Tony welcomes discussion on this article in this thread on our forums.
By Tony Morelli
Last updated: 10/1/05
Introduction
I've been maintaining TONMO.com as a cephalopod interest site since 2000. Since then...
- Original publish date
- Dec 30, 2005
In 2008, Kat Bolstad visited the British Museum of Natural History in London and shared her experience with the TONMO community.
by Kat Bolstad (tintenfisch)
Last updated: Dec 2008
I would love to conduct a study on the different associations people have with the word 'museum.' Dusty...
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, 1954
Reviewed by Adam Eli Clem
For many cephalopod enthusiasts, seeing the Walt Disney production of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" marked an epiphany. It didn't matter that the giant squid was too big,too slow and had an...
- Original publish date
- Sep 21, 2003
What follows is an archive of some of the thoughts and observations posted on TONMO.com in the early years...
A Mother's Day Reflection
By Tony Morelli
As we know, next to our own moms (who are indeed the very best), octopus moms are among the most selfless in the universe. My sister and her...
- Original publish date
- Mar 29, 2001
by Eugene Linden
Dutton, 242 pp, hardcover, 2002
~ Reviewed by nanoteuthis ~
Consider the octopus, one of the most enduring and successful designs nature ever perfected. (p. 23)
Thus begins the first of two chapters on Octopus intelligence – "The Riddle of the Octopus" and "Octopus...
- Original publish date
- Feb 17, 2003
For anyone interested the following is a transcript of my half of an introductory talk, delivered today at the 'Multispecies Heritage Conference' (hosted by Edge Hill Univeristy in the UK). [raw text, not corrected], that serves to introduce our cephalopod-media project to a wider audience...
- Contributing Authors
- William Brown
- Original publish date
- Nov 27, 2020
The Natural History Museum (2002). ISBN 0-565-09169-7
160 pages softback.
Review by @Phil Eyden
Ammonites are one of the first fossils we all hear about at school. We all know they were related to squids and octopi, generally have spiral shells and died out along with the dinosaurs 65...
- Original publish date
- Aug 1, 2005
Our house robot, @octobot (which is enabled by Chat-GPT4), has offered the following summary of @ACC4's journal for her pet bimac, Raccoon. The original journal and thread can be found here.
For those unacquainted with the nuanced world of octopus keeping, let's introduce Raccoon. She's a...
- Contributing Authors
- @octobot, @ACC4
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