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About 3 years ago, I got this dream job at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences ( http://www.calacademy.org/academy/ex...ross/index.php ). I also have a dream family. Now that I have them together I have had not nearly enough time to keep up on various tank journals and threads both on TONMO and other places. So, instead I am going to try blogging for all my cephy postings (along some reef stuff and job related stuff) both to simplify my life and keep all my 'notes' in the same place.

The hope is that I will be able to update this blog in some kind of timely fashion. I have the feeling that that I'll post new stuff as it occurs, some old stuff and repost some interesting stuff that I find floating around TONMO. We'll see how it goes and I hope some of you find it interesting/useful.

  1. Sepia latimanus are about 3 months old (video)

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    Thales
    , May 02, '11 at 3:51pm (Octos and cuttles and more!)


    The Sepia latimanus at the California Academy of Sciences are now three months old, and they are growing fast. I was on a two week vacation and the doubled in size. They are also starting to show interactivity that the species is known for in the wild, and they very much know when they are about to be fed. I still haven't seen the colors pulsing along the arms when hunting that I mentioned in a previous blog post, but we are seeing much more adult coloration ...
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  2. Brooklyn and Long Island - and some updates (video)

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    Thales
    , Mar 10, '11 at 3:45pm (Octos and cuttles and more!)
    On Friday, March 11, I'll be giving a ceph talk to the Brooklyn Aquarium Society. More info at http://www.brooklynaquariumsociety.org/
    The next week, on March 19th I be giving a talk on skeptical reefkeeping "How to make decisions about your reef with all the contradictory advice" and Long Island Reef Associan's NERAC. The event take place at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead. More infor is available here:
    http://www.neracvi.com/
    I'll be around Long Island all week, ...
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  3. O. vulgaris hatchlings still alive and S. latimanus are cute

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    Thales
    , Mar 03, '11 at 11:13pm (Octos and cuttles and more!)
    Is been 10 days since the O. vulgaris eggs have hatched. The paralarvae were divided into three tanks, 2 pseudo kreisels (one with a light barrier, one without) and into the octopus display tank with just air bubbles for water motion. The female is still alive and tending several stalks of eggs that failed to hatch. Interestingly, the best paralarve surrival has been in the display tank - the complete opposite of what I expected. It could be that since this tank was long established that the paralarvae ...

    Updated Mar 03, '11 at 11:49pm by Thales

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