- Joined
- Nov 17, 2021
- Messages
- 6
Hi everybody!
Joined TONMO recently as I've begun to explore cephs more and more. I am a high school science teacher in Chicago, and love to use aquatic systems for engagement and learning in the classroom. In addition to teaching, I've also owned a coral reef aquarium design and management company for almost 20 years. Most of the aquatic systems I use in the classroom are saltwater, and I use those systems for teaching, but also to try to develop and test new reef management concepts.
I had an octopus in the classroom last year that did pretty well. I never keyed out the species, but it came in as one of the cheaper Pacific browns. It was pretty shy, so we didn't see it often. But it definitely ate a lot. That one went home for the summer with another reef keeper teacher, and she told me it just recently died...so, it lived at least a year and 3 months (no idea how it was when I got it, but it was pretty small).
Now I've got a couple of systems (connected) going in the classroom, and want to get some cephs for them. One is a 50g reef, and the other is a 30g lagoon (the lagoon tank is the 'filter' for the reef). I think the lagoon would be great for cuttlefish hatched from eggs, and the reef would be good for O. briareus , at least while its small. My hope with both cuttlefish and the octopus is to use them in my physics classes as we study motion, fluid dynamics, light (chromatophores), etc.
In my brief time here, I can see that there is a lot of experience and knowledge, and I'm eager to learn as much as I possibly can from this amazing community.
Joined TONMO recently as I've begun to explore cephs more and more. I am a high school science teacher in Chicago, and love to use aquatic systems for engagement and learning in the classroom. In addition to teaching, I've also owned a coral reef aquarium design and management company for almost 20 years. Most of the aquatic systems I use in the classroom are saltwater, and I use those systems for teaching, but also to try to develop and test new reef management concepts.
I had an octopus in the classroom last year that did pretty well. I never keyed out the species, but it came in as one of the cheaper Pacific browns. It was pretty shy, so we didn't see it often. But it definitely ate a lot. That one went home for the summer with another reef keeper teacher, and she told me it just recently died...so, it lived at least a year and 3 months (no idea how it was when I got it, but it was pretty small).
Now I've got a couple of systems (connected) going in the classroom, and want to get some cephs for them. One is a 50g reef, and the other is a 30g lagoon (the lagoon tank is the 'filter' for the reef). I think the lagoon would be great for cuttlefish hatched from eggs, and the reef would be good for O. briareus , at least while its small. My hope with both cuttlefish and the octopus is to use them in my physics classes as we study motion, fluid dynamics, light (chromatophores), etc.
In my brief time here, I can see that there is a lot of experience and knowledge, and I'm eager to learn as much as I possibly can from this amazing community.
