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Aug 9, 2022 obtained female bimac that was born mid may to early April 2022
Sadly, (or so I thought) she stopped feeding Nov 18th and will not come out of her den for food, or any reason
My thought was that she is already in the programed death spiral.
Nov 28th 2022 Spotted eggs
Feb 1, 2023 First baby hatched
Feb 1, 2023 ordered 1000 day 7 live Mysis shrimp from Marinco Bioassay labs at ~$200 including shipping
half of the Mysis are living, growing and hovering over rocks in my 72 gal dual Tunze 9012 skimmed/ GFO/Carbon octopus tank, but the other half of the mysis pretty promptly died in my 16 gal under gravel filtered “mysis breeding tank”. I guess there is a reason they are used as indicators of water quality. I am hopeful the baby bimacs will do OK on enriched near adult live brine shrimp, which are so so much cheaper from the LFS.
This post I found here online https://tonmo.com/threads/what-are-you-feeding-your-octopus.3700/page-14#post-134501 makes me hopeful
Feb 8 Two babies spotted, one much bigger than the other, spotted eggs again and they look ready to pop, plan is to shift over to enriched adult live brine,
I think I will just leave them all in the 72 gal tank that has tons of live rock and is well skimmed, feed them heavily and watch Darwin in action, might pull them out and rig up some 16 gal High tanks with undergravel filters and a bunch of dividers, but my office is already kind of full of tanks (see below)
Sadly, (or so I thought) she stopped feeding Nov 18th and will not come out of her den for food, or any reason
My thought was that she is already in the programed death spiral.
Nov 28th 2022 Spotted eggs
Feb 1, 2023 First baby hatched
Feb 1, 2023 ordered 1000 day 7 live Mysis shrimp from Marinco Bioassay labs at ~$200 including shipping
half of the Mysis are living, growing and hovering over rocks in my 72 gal dual Tunze 9012 skimmed/ GFO/Carbon octopus tank, but the other half of the mysis pretty promptly died in my 16 gal under gravel filtered “mysis breeding tank”. I guess there is a reason they are used as indicators of water quality. I am hopeful the baby bimacs will do OK on enriched near adult live brine shrimp, which are so so much cheaper from the LFS.
This post I found here online https://tonmo.com/threads/what-are-you-feeding-your-octopus.3700/page-14#post-134501 makes me hopeful
Feb 8 Two babies spotted, one much bigger than the other, spotted eggs again and they look ready to pop, plan is to shift over to enriched adult live brine,
I think I will just leave them all in the 72 gal tank that has tons of live rock and is well skimmed, feed them heavily and watch Darwin in action, might pull them out and rig up some 16 gal High tanks with undergravel filters and a bunch of dividers, but my office is already kind of full of tanks (see below)