- Location
- Staten Island
I received eggs on tuesday from one of my suppliers and figured id start a thread on here as well as www.tonmo.com (the bible for Cephelapod keeping)
They are definitely viable, i have roughly 12-15 eggs, have not counted them but there is a good amount since i only ordered 6. Most are the size of a grape and some are very small but the small ones still have a possibility of developing further.
I see movement in the eggs when i put a flashlight to them sometimes but as always with these animals, it is nerve wrecking until one actually hatches and the process begins. Until one hatches you sit and wait and wait and hope and hope. It is not uncommon to get Bandensis eggs that are either doa and you dont know it until you see a bunch of cloudy eggs one day. Your never sure if any of them will even hatch and if they do hopefully they eat and continue to do so. Its a nerve wrecking yet rewarding process.
They eat live mysids after there yolk sack is fully depleted. Some will eat the day of hatch some wont eat for a week, when that happens you get scared too! Live mysids are a must for the first 2-4 weeks, they will accept other foods but their survival rate is dismal. After 2 weeks, depending on size you can feed them small shore shrimp and after that im not sure the exact time frame but you feed them an assortment of fiddler crabs, table shrimp, and other fun, less expensive things.
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I have the tubing in there because i have them in an in-tank refugium wrapped in pantyhose i used for my last batch of eggs. It is in there through one of the holes to increase waterflow since it is so restricted. I have it running from the in tank fuge to my fuge below my tank for more oxygen and circulation. I would have rather bput them in a breeder net since i wouldnt be worried about air flow or a baby cuttle getting sucked through the tubing but at this point i don't want to move the eggs which could risk detaching a cuttle from its yolk sack inside their egg and killing it. This set up has worked for me twice before but this time i feel differently about it and wish i got a breeder net like i had planned, but oh well.
I will take my best guess as to what is a male and female by careful observation and keep both of those in my 30g rimless in hopes of them breeding one day and being able to spread the cuttlefish wealth among fellow enthusiasts. If i have any other hatchlings from this batch i might resort to either selling them or giving them away after i get them to about a month old because i wont have room.
They are definitely viable, i have roughly 12-15 eggs, have not counted them but there is a good amount since i only ordered 6. Most are the size of a grape and some are very small but the small ones still have a possibility of developing further.
I see movement in the eggs when i put a flashlight to them sometimes but as always with these animals, it is nerve wrecking until one actually hatches and the process begins. Until one hatches you sit and wait and wait and hope and hope. It is not uncommon to get Bandensis eggs that are either doa and you dont know it until you see a bunch of cloudy eggs one day. Your never sure if any of them will even hatch and if they do hopefully they eat and continue to do so. Its a nerve wrecking yet rewarding process.
They eat live mysids after there yolk sack is fully depleted. Some will eat the day of hatch some wont eat for a week, when that happens you get scared too! Live mysids are a must for the first 2-4 weeks, they will accept other foods but their survival rate is dismal. After 2 weeks, depending on size you can feed them small shore shrimp and after that im not sure the exact time frame but you feed them an assortment of fiddler crabs, table shrimp, and other fun, less expensive things.
Attached picture-
I have the tubing in there because i have them in an in-tank refugium wrapped in pantyhose i used for my last batch of eggs. It is in there through one of the holes to increase waterflow since it is so restricted. I have it running from the in tank fuge to my fuge below my tank for more oxygen and circulation. I would have rather bput them in a breeder net since i wouldnt be worried about air flow or a baby cuttle getting sucked through the tubing but at this point i don't want to move the eggs which could risk detaching a cuttle from its yolk sack inside their egg and killing it. This set up has worked for me twice before but this time i feel differently about it and wish i got a breeder net like i had planned, but oh well.
I will take my best guess as to what is a male and female by careful observation and keep both of those in my 30g rimless in hopes of them breeding one day and being able to spread the cuttlefish wealth among fellow enthusiasts. If i have any other hatchlings from this batch i might resort to either selling them or giving them away after i get them to about a month old because i wont have room.
