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Octos and cuttles and more!

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. 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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  2. 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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  3. What a nice way to start a blog - a bagillion little octo's (vid and pics)

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    Thales
    , Feb 23, '11 at 12:09pm (Octos and cuttles and more!)
    About a month ago, we got a Caribbean Octopus 'vulgaris' in at work, and put it right on show on the public floor. It quickly took up residence inside a glass bottle, which is exactly what I wanted it to do so it would always be visible to the public. Just as quickly, it moved back under some rock and started denning, and my heart sank because I knew it was a she, and the she had laid eggs. While eggs being laid in captivity is generally an exciting event, this particular species, like many but ...

    Updated Feb 26, '11 at 8:10pm by Thales

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