• Looking to buy a cephalopod? Check out Tomh's Cephs Forum, and this post in particular shares important info about our policies as it relates to responsible ceph-keeping.

buddies for the bobs?

One research area they are often used for is to study the symbiosis between them and the bacteria they grow in their light organs for bioluminescence, see Squid/Vibrio Collection for example.

They're also probably the most studied cephalopod for understanding how they develop from an egg, see Euprymna scolopes, Hawaiian bobtail squid - The Cephalopod Page for a bit on that, too, because they're (relatively) easy (in a professional lab) to raise and breed (which is good news) and have a short lifetime (bad news). As far as I know they're not used for anything like testing products, but they are (sadly) good experimental animals for studying development.

That does mean that what labs have done to raise them from eggs has been well-documented:

http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/refdb/pdf/7724.pdf

That probably has a lot of the answers that you want in it, but you'll likely have to learn a lot of new terminology to read it... if you take a look at that article and ask questions here to help understand it, you can probably get some pretty good explanations.
 
well, you don't have to read the whole thing before asking questions... there are a lot of people here who read this sort of stuff every day, so they know all the jargon and background, and are pretty friendly about answering questions... One of the many "would be a good idea if we get around to it" ideas I've thought about is a glossary to help amateur ceph-keepers out in reading research papers without feeling :banghead:.
 

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