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Mike, I truly and honestly appreciate your enthusiasm, yet: Small egg species can be done to some extent if there is a vast amount of space and a vast amount of crab zoeae from their local environment in place, plus most likely a host of planktonic prey items yet unbeknownst to us, each idealy suited for maybe even a single day in the developmental stages the larval octopus goes through.
Experiments with Octopus vulgaris are ongoing, for reasons of commercial aquaculture, and they are hardly successful... Do not hold your breath for anything at an aquarist scale within the forseeable future, I am close to locking this thread as the discussion would drag on and on and not lead to anything else than the horses flogged fiercely and with a passion elsewhere in this forum, regardless of their inanimity.
PS: Mike, if you think locking is a harsh overreaction, induced by a week of hard work and stress, you are likely right
PPS: So I won't, but let's return to the topic, shall we? Ethics and exotics is a BIG one, reason the more we should have a forum discussion, come TONMOCON IV, Greg Oh Greg, where art thou?
Experiments with Octopus vulgaris are ongoing, for reasons of commercial aquaculture, and they are hardly successful... Do not hold your breath for anything at an aquarist scale within the forseeable future, I am close to locking this thread as the discussion would drag on and on and not lead to anything else than the horses flogged fiercely and with a passion elsewhere in this forum, regardless of their inanimity.
PS: Mike, if you think locking is a harsh overreaction, induced by a week of hard work and stress, you are likely right
PPS: So I won't, but let's return to the topic, shall we? Ethics and exotics is a BIG one, reason the more we should have a forum discussion, come TONMOCON IV, Greg Oh Greg, where art thou?