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New Zebra O. chierchiae (now trying breeding!)

Not really adjusting, just out a little at night. Seems like generally it would be a terrible pet. I saw it less than I saw the wunderpus!

I received a second one from reefscavengers yesterday, it is about the size of my pinkynail. Cute. Its in a cube set up that I plumbed into the main system. The original one was just moved into the cubes as well.

A supplier for reefscavengers had three more, but they escaped into the suppliers system before they were to be shipped to me. Seems like a case of the supplier no knowing about the escape abilities of occys - they went through tiny holes in the containers.

Hopefully pics of the set up and occys later today.
 
Super cool!

Crissy was just here, and it looks like the first one, the larger one, is female. Baye already preggers? But, even, more exciting, the second one, much smaller is a male. Tomorrow night, we're putting them together!

Here is a pic of the female. :biggrin2:
 
Thales;115646 said:
Super cool!

Crissy was just here, and it looks like the first one, the larger one, is female. Baye already preggers? But, even, more exciting, the second one, much smaller is a male. Tomorrow night, we're putting them together!

Here is a pic of the female. :biggrin2:

Woohoo! Hope it goes well!
 
they are sort of Valentine's Day colored, aren't they...
 
Roy, Crissy and Eric were over tonight for some ceph porn.

We put them together and they did it. Really nice. Got some good video and Roy (better camera, better position! :biggrin2: )got this pic of the little male (maybe Roy will post a version of it that he likes :smile ). You can see fringing on the arm tips and if you look carefully at the arm just under the mantle on the right you can see the hectocotylized arm.
 
Interesting that the skin is almost as transparent (well, semi-opaque) as the Mercs and you can identify the heart in the picture even with the stripes displayed. Are the stripes always present on these?
 
That's great, glad you all got together for the big event.

So, sizewise, what sort of mantle size do they have and are they now expected to get much bigger?
 

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