Has anyone compiled a list of public Ceph tanks?

For example, I know there are some Big Red Octos at the Morro Bay Aquarium in Morro Bay, CA.

I'll try to dig up some pics I have from there.

Can anyone else add to this list?

Great idea!

Here are a few I've been to:

MOTE in Sarasota, Florida
Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach CA

Is the Seattle Aquarium just called that? And what's the name of the one near the NRCC that Greg B works at?

edit: there's also a small aquarium near or on Fisherman's Warf in San Fransisco that has a GPO, or at least did in 2000...

There's an octopus and 3 cuttlefish here at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, La Jolla, CA.

Not sure on the species. All I remember is that the cuttlefish were simple labeled Sepia. It wasn't dwarf.

There's an octopus and 3 cuttlefish here at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, La Jolla, CA.

Not sure on the species. All I remember is that the cuttlefish were simple labeled Sepia. It wasn't dwarf.

There's actually 3 octo tanks at the Birch Aquarium. 1 GPO, and 2 Bimacs. One of the Bimacs is kept outside in a "tidepool" display :goofysca:. The care taker told me she's only seen it out once, but it's very big for a Bimac.

There is also a cuttle and GPO display at the Sea World in San Diego. Funnest GPO I've gotten to see.

GPO and Sepia pharaonis at Dallas World Aquarium.

Bit far afield for you guys but the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium (Dunedin, NZ) has NZ Common Octopus (Pinnoctopus cordiformis) and Midget Octopus (Octopus warringa/huttoni complex) and what we call "cuttlefish" Actually a bobtail squid (Sepioloidea pacifica).


J

Definitely a great idea. We should have a living document for this. A modification of the Tank Owner's Database would be good.

I know currently there is an octopus in the Camden, NJ aquarium as well as at the Baltimore aquarium.

Ooh, can I play too? :heee: Aquaria with cephs that I saw this year...

- Two Oceans Aquarium (http://www.aquarium.co.za/), Cape Town (cuttlefish and octopus)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium (http://www.mbayaq.org/) (I think they had an octo?)
- Steinhart Aquarium (http://www.calacademy.org/aquarium/), California Academy of Sciences (nautilus... maybe more if the new site is open now? Thales?)
- Thales' Personal Home Aquarium (wunderpus and cuttles 8-) )
- Waikiki Aquarium (http://www.waquarium.org/), Honolulu (octopus)
- Akvariet i Bergen (http://www.akvariet.no/engelsk/), Norway (octopus... O. rubescens I think?)
- Kelly Tarltons's Underwater World (http://www.kellytarltons.co.nz/home/), Auckland, NZ (Octopus gibbsi, [dead] Architeuthis dux 8-))
- the Auckland Museum (http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/) also has a live octo on display most of the time

...and Midget Octopus (Octopus warringa/huttoni complex) ...

Not sure if there's a 'complex' there Jean. Is there something you're not telling us? Certainly the Fiordland specimens are larger than elsewhere, but the likelihood of their being an endemic in this region is exceedingly remote (and I'm not sure if there's a precedent).

I looked at this years ago, and couldn't differentiate those from around NZ, and NZ from Australian specimens, referring all to O.huttoni (Benham); I'd love research (genetic) to be done on it; is this happening?

Most public (and large private) aquariums have some sort of ceph exhibit, usually an octopus. If there's only one octopus, most likely it's a GPO, at least in the U.S.

Nancy

Not sure if there's a 'complex' there Jean. Is there something you're not telling us? Certainly the Fiordland specimens are larger than elsewhere, but the likelihood of their being an endemic in this region is exceedingly remote (and I'm not sure if there's a precedent).

I looked at this years ago, and couldn't differentiate those from around NZ, and NZ from Australian specimens, referring all to O.huttoni (Benham); I'd love research (genetic) to be done on it; is this happening?

Oooops bit of presumption and a typing slip here! I have no idea if these are a complex or not! I was reading about the O. horridus complex and it just slipped into my ramblings! I'd love to look into the genetics too.....hmm could be postdoc in that! Any idea on how long the larvae are in the plankton? There is some evidence that larvae that have a short planktonic period do not leave the Fiords (I'm thinking of Kina here). So that could be interesting to look at these small octopus from different locations and look at their genetic relatedness.......ponder, ponder!

J

The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, UT has a GPO.

- Steinhart Aquarium (http://www.calacademy.org/aquarium/), California Academy of Sciences (nautilus... maybe more if the new site is open now? Thales?)
- Thales' Personal Home Aquarium (wunderpus and cuttles 8-)



:grin:

Steinhart only has nautilus right now, still at the 'temp' site (though we start moving stuff next month!). Sadly, there aren't any firm plans for any other cephs at the new site.

Atlanta aquarium both cuttles and GPO displays.

Melbourne Aquarium in Australia has a Maori Octopus, a Sand Octopus (who just laid eggs and won't be with us much longer) and some Giant Cuttles.

-The New England aquarium in Boston has cuttlefish and a giant octopus. Last time I was there they had nautitus, but they are not listed on the site.

-The National Zoo in DC has cuttlefish(S. officinalis) and a giant octopus.

Riverbanks zoo in Columbia,SC Has at least one Octo (if not more, just remember one) and they have a nautilus tank.....
The South Carolina Aquarium, in Charleston,SC Generally has a O. vulgaris on hand in a smaller exhibit

-The New England aquarium in Boston has cuttlefish and a giant octopus. Last time I was there they had nautitus, but they are not listed on the site.

-The National Zoo in DC has cuttlefish(S. officinalis) and a giant octopus.

The National Zoo in D.C. sometimes has cuttlefish, but they dont currently have any, the have a Giant Pacific Octopus, and they also have 3-5 nautilus on display and keep several more tucked out of site. (I live right next to the zoo so go there a lot and know some people that work in the invertibrate exhibit.)



Actually Im not sure about the cuttlefish, Last time I went--3-4 weeks ago-- there weren't any on display, but they may have had some behind seens.

At the National Aquarium in Baltimore we currently have two chambered nautilus on display as well as our newest GPO, Miki. We did have two pharaoh cuttlefish on display for a brief period of time during the past spring/summer.

We have one Enteroctopus dofleini, three Nautilus pompilius, and usually four to six Sepia pharaonis or Sepia officinalis (but the exhibit is being overhauled right now) at the Aquarium at Moody Gardens.

I visited the Georgia Aquarium in December and they had one E. dofleini.

Greg

Greg,
I wish I had known you were here, we could have done a mini-TONMCON at the aquarium!

It was a very brief trip. My girlfriend and I had my dog so we could not walk around the aquarium as long as I would have liked. I am sure I will be back...

Greg

We are about 1.5 hours north of downtown but have a fenced yard (our neighbors dogs have actually dug INTO our fence to play with our overly large dogs) and a spare bedroom ;>) so let us know when you plan another trip this way!

there's an O. Vulgaris at the maritime aquarium in norwalk,C.T.
they also have another octo but it's not on display.

National Aquarium in Baltimore has a nautilus, a GPO, and a pharaoh cuttlefish(?)

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher has O. vulgaris and has had S. officinalis and S. pharaonis

:welcome: to TONMO, and thanks for the heads up on that aquarium...

At the new england aquarium there is a cuttle display and an octopus tank.

i'm going to the new england aquarium in a few weeks! i can't wait!

If I might put in a plug for the Flint Riverquarium (in Albany, GA, about 3 hours south of Atlanta) we had a habitat with a female bimac who laid eggs. The kids really loved watching her tend them, then really enjoyed watching some of them grow up - our last one just passed at 12 months. Currently awaiting another female bimac - hope to have greater success this time.

:welcome: to TONMO, and thanks for the info on the Flint!

Hi Deacon -- I hadn't heard of this, thanks for sharing. That is neat about the tending of eggs and the kids watching them grow up. Keep us posted on your next acquisition!

Received our female bimac on Friday - already on Saturday she was pole-feeding like a champ! Excellent color on her eyespots. I'm very excited.

Deacon,
You might start a journal on your new octo and take the approach of recording the student's reactions and participation. Additionally, do you know for sure that this octopus is a bimac (ie did you get it from an educational institute?). I ask because the Caribbean 2-spot (Hummelincki) has often been misidentified as a bimac and there seem to be quite a number of the Hummelinckis showing up in the aquarium trade. The major importance would be the water temperature requirements since the Caribbean Hummelincki is warm water vs the coldwater Pacific bimac.

We got her through a contact our curator made on this site, a researcher who collected her just for us (can't remember his name off the top of my head.)

There's a GPO..in our local aquarium in Hong Kong.

in Perth, W. Australia, the AQWA has an. O. cf tetricus, and a group of beautiful native cuttlefish wit amazing purple colouration.

The octopus at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium has eggs. I think it is a GPO. I couldn't see little eye spots, so I am not sure if they are fertile. They are really tiny compared to mom... :shock: