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Speaking of which here is a video of that!
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craigl;115175 said:There are also lots of stories of people saying this wont work or that wont work until someone tries it. Then soon enough it becomes common practice when it does work.
You are prob right and i respect your vast knowledge and experience with these animals but even you had to learn somehow right? I have been closely watching them interact and it is just too intriguing seeing them behave like this to seperate them yet. However i do have another tank setup that has been running much longer than the cuttle tank that is only inhabitted right now by a serpent star and some reef janitors. If need be i can move the cuttles or the filefish there if something goes wrong. I have trained the cuttles to take shrimp right out of the net so catching them would be almost too easy
I agree that i wouldnt reccomend trying and i dont consider the fish a "disposable comoditiy". I dont want anyone to get the idea that i dont care for the wellbeing of all of my fish as well as my other pets. However the thing that interests me with this is that it has been said that cephalopods are one of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean next to marine mamals. (This may be more true for octopus??) Anyway, if these animals are now being bred in captivity im wondering if they can somewhat be domesticated (for lack of a better word) I highly doubt that you would be able to get a wild bandensis to eat from a net while on a dive. Or in DWhatley's case get a dwarf octo come up to you in the wild and want to be "pet". These seem like they are learned behaviors that can only happen in captivity. So I am trying this more so to see if they can be taught what is its food and what isnt.I guess the short of it is I hope people reading this thread don't get the idea that they should try putting fish in with bandensis because I don't think fish should be treated as disposable commodities, and in most cases, cuttles eat the fish.
craigl;115255 said:Oh and according to fishbase the filefish are harmless.