It's a sad aquarium down south. We lost Earle on Friday. He developed the autophagy disease and was eating his own arms. The worst part of the whole thing is that we had to euthanise him :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

We are now in the process of sterilising the tank etc, before we introduce a new octopus.


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J :cry:

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that, Jean. :( That must have been very difficult for all of you at the aquarium.

He was a magnificent octopus. How quickly things change.

RIP Earle :angelpus:

:cry: That is sad -- I'm sorry you all had to go through that!

Indeed, RIP. Been there recently myself. Not good.

..... I don't suppose you have any octopus eggs down there do you Jean? I've a new chappy starting up here (Felipe) on his Masters, and he'll be rearing P. cordiformis, O. gibbsi and O. huttoni, egg to adult hopefully. It would be nice to compare development of P. cordiformis [or O. huttoni] from both ends of NZ (I can get them up this way, through scallop boats or SCUBA). Another onliner (Jason ... I'll not let on his alias) is rearing Sepioteuthis, but I'd like him to have a look-see at Sepioloidea also (your large new species, and S. 'pacifica'). If you do hear of any eggs of these things being collected I can quick-pronto organise them being sent up ... or someone coming down. I could throw a few $$ at a diver to collect some.

Hope all else is most positively marvelously fantastically wonderfully good.
Me

:( I'm sorry, Jean......

Carol

Jean, what a horrible day you must have had. Sorry to hear about Earle. Sterilizing the tank sounds like a big job.

Steve's news about new research is encouraging, by onliners no less - makes me wonder whether we'll see some of it here on TONMO.

Melissa

Sorry for the horrible news Jean :(

well hope u will get over it ....and ...nvm
not very good with words so sorry