S Bandensis

[Mikey]

And if you look back at the start of this thread, it took from January to April for me to get mine - sometimes you get a lucky break!

IF and it is a big IF, mine pair and lay, me and righty could knock heads together over shipping at egg state I suppose, but dont fancy the survival rates much.

A fair few are going next week some to Colin, and some more to the sea life centres round the UK. Will be holding some back to grow on further though, and sell private me thinks!

 

[oscar]

wow - sounds like you got it all sorted...lol (good work!)

still no news of vids or the site - i bet you have been pretty busy!...

And RIGHTY!!! is that an octopus on your head!!! lol - i love the picture man! and i am guessing there is a story with it???

 

[satch12]

mickey looks like your doing an awesome job i hope you can be the first to start breeding these cuttles in captivity successfully. and would love to know everything you know on how to care for cuttles i would love to put some in my 55. i saw one at a LFS the other day and it was awesome to watch feed they are so unbeliveable creatures

 

[oscar]

he wouldn't be the first - righty and a few others have done tis also - righty has a website about his experience with videos and pics - www.DaisyHillCuttleFarm.com - but still i am not game to try it yet-lol

 

[satch12]

yea i read a lot about them after i made that post and saw that righty was successful. ive seen his site its really nice.

 

[satch12]

oscar is australia pretty nice i want to move there really bad i went there on a class trip and had a blast and said i would live there some day how is it living there

 

[Mikey]

Had a little experiment tonight!!

Took one dead river shrimp, and hap hazzardly tied it to some thread and floated inthe main tank - by jove the cuttles came right out and grabbed it!!

Least I know they will take dead food when i need to!

Need to find a better way of doing it though, string is hard to sink!!

 

[Mikey]

Well, after the little experiment was lucky enough (or unluckly as i think it will turn out) to see 2 of my babies in the main tank square off (i think) to each other.

They were both sat side by side and then as I approached the larger cuttle changed colour and tilted sidewards to show the other it's back, strectched out as long as it could get. The colours were a brown/black/white show.

The larger one with it's back tilted moved toward the other in a pushing manner, and both had their arms splayed out. After movign around a bit, the smaller decided to grab the larger on it's tilted back. After which, they both resumed normal business.

Righty (or anyone), can you back up or explain.... pretty please??

 

[Thales]

Sound like two males squaring off. I have a video of that on my site somewhere. Gotta run, more later!

 

[oscar]

CooL! - i hope it doesnt turn into something bad as you mentioned - perhaps they will just stay away from each other if the tank is big enough? lets hope so! (have you named them all yet - lol)

Yeh australia is good but then i haven't live anywhere else for long...

 

[Mikey]

Well, 6 babies have found new homes, just another 20 odd to re-home now

 

[joel_ang]

Just curious, how many are you keeping for yourself?

 

[Mikey]

Hey Joel,

Well!! I have 10 in the main tank, of which I will remove and re-home a few if I can get them before fighting breaks out. Unfortunately, more escaped into the main tank than I hoped.

So i'm expecting some losses due to fighting, and after catching some (hopefully) fingers crossed it will leave me with maybe 3 or 4.

 

[joel_ang]

Even more curious... how do those guys escape? Any chance you're going to try breeding them later on?

 

[Mikey]

That's the plan Joel, if i'm lucky.

They escaped while performing swaps to their breeding nets. I had originally put 6 in the main tank, as I thought this would be a good number to work with to establish a breeding group (expecting some fighting losses of course).

So if all goes to plan, I'll have some form of breeding going on. Then I may possibly maybe ( ) look into distributing the eggs.