[Cuttlefish]: Ramses

[Hajar]

The hand-feeding (#74 above) is fun, but I like the patient stalking, walking, elephant impersonation and final attack of this one ..

 

[Cephdoc]

I like Ramses the !!! How long have you had him? Do you have luck with the anemone in with him?

 

[DWhatley]

Definitely looks like an elephant dressed for a parade complete with a yellow fringed blanket.

 

[Hajar]

Since November 4th Cephdoc, so not very long at all.

The anemone seems fine, growing, moving around from time to time. Anemones in the local sea are fun to watch, often associated with anemonefish and shrimp, like the two attached.

D, yes! Ramses is a colourful and expressive animal, but also a vicious killer seen from the perspective of a crab.

 

[Hajar]

Another little Omani anemone digression ..

Ramses, by the way, eats anemonefish.

 

[DWhatley]

LOL, Ramses will likely eat ANY thing he considers viable food that is his size or smaller. Cuttlegirl posted a cuttlefish vs octopus video in 2008 that you will likely be something you can envision with Ramses:

 

[Lmecher]

YIKES!

 

[Hajar]

Not very sporting to have snuck up on that octopus while it was distracted and happy playing with the spanner, but then again food is food!

 

[Hajar]

Nothing new here: I go out early in the morning to catch crabs and Ramses eats them. Three consumed already this morning. It's fun to watch the change from white to a rich chocolate purple with white splodges at the moment of capture. Here's Ramses munching away on one of this morning's crabs.

 

[Hajar]

Today I got to feel the sensation of contact by many small suction cups as Ramses captured fingers and thumb in addition to the crab.

 

[DWhatley]

Cool yes? Monty has twice done something odd with his suckers by kneading my fingers. I have tried to determine if he was saying he was hungry but failed to get him to do it again. I will have a new interaction video on his thread if it ever finished uploading (the first attempt failed).

 

[Hajar]

The little mini-kraken has a full belly this evening after tackling a large prawn.

 

[DWhatley]

Did Ramses eat all of that?

 

[Hajar]

No, he gave up after consuming roughly the middle third of the body, nibbling away from the back. The anemone had the tail end and the cerianthids worked on the head.

 

[DWhatley]

Could you determine if he ate any of the shell? Supposedly only nautilus do this (or need to) but it seems like our octopuses may eat at least some of it and I have started to wonder about a dietary benefit of shell on shrimp.