Henry100
Jun 8th, 2005, 10:26am
Does anyone know how many eggs a cuttlefish produces during breeding and if there is something to be constructed so as to help cuttlefish put its eggs on it?
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View Full Version : Cuttlefish babies Henry100 Jun 8th, 2005, 10:26am Does anyone know how many eggs a cuttlefish produces during breeding and if there is something to be constructed so as to help cuttlefish put its eggs on it? Squidman Jun 8th, 2005, 11:09am I read that female cuttles will produce about five hundred eggs, laid one at a time. I also found that one owner's cuttle laid her eggs to the airline and incoming water tubing. Hope that helps. Henry100 Jun 8th, 2005, 11:50am Of course,thank you very much for your help. chalcosoma Jun 9th, 2005, 01:58am OK, the following is only from one experiment, with one species, Sepia Pharaonis (Pharaoh Cuttlefish) and may or may not apply to other species. This experiment was conducted at the Aquaculture Research Center in Thailand, and they found that there was NO PREFERENCE for any particular media - stone, bamboo, plastic, light or dark-colored, etc. They laid eggs on all of them. According to the researchers, if the eggs are left in a bunch as they were laid, a higher number of eggs will fail to hatch as oxygen circulation around the eggs is important. Therefore they cut the bunches up with scissors (carefully!) and place them in floating plastic baskets to ensure a good flow of oxygenated water. More than 95% of the eggs hatch with this method. Henry100 Jun 11th, 2005, 08:58am Thanks a lot.Could you send me an image of this process to understand it more accurately? Thales Jun 11th, 2005, 11:09am What species? Henry100 Jun 11th, 2005, 11:27am Sepia Officinalis,but also Sepia Bandensis are wellcome. |