Cuttle Eggs came in...

[Cephdoc]

Yea i have a reef for my cephs i plan on keeping. Mainly leather, mushrooms, polyps, zoos, sps, things like that. I have some LPS in there but i dont know if they will be that much of a problem as they are not very big. I have a small start of a Hammer coral, but its not much bigger than your thumb. Thats about it.

 

[Cephdoc]

Had some Frogspawn also, but it didnt survive the move from my other reef.

 

[SabrinaR]

Another baby hatched! I am so excited... after the one egg deflating and the other baby dying I was so worried but I have another baby! This one already looks more active than the other one did. I could see his eyes open and his little tentacles! Wow this is cool!

 

[Cephdoc]

Im excited for you!! Good luck with him! Best wishes! How many eggs are there left i forget?

 

[SabrinaR]

I had 6 now down to 3 eggs and 1 baby. I am hoping the LFS will be able to order some tomorrow.

 

[Cephdoc]

Post pics as soon as you can, i'd like to see this little guy

 

[SabrinaR]

I will... I only have my camera phone right now so its a PITA to get any good ones but I will try and use my daughters lol she got one for Christmas.

 

[Cephdoc]

Awesome! LOL thanks! Cant wait, hopefully he will take to the mysids you bought!

 

[SabrinaR]

So far he has been really reclusive. I will try and get pictures tonight, I am gonna try and live him alone for a bit. I dont want to stress the little guy out.

 

[SabrinaR]

I ordered more eggs this morning. I dont know why but the price went up to 9$ each... still cheaper than other places. They should be here Wednesday.

 

[Lmecher]

Oh, sorry to hear you lost your baby and congrats on the new hatch.
I want more photos too. Those eggs look like black grapes, very pretty. I can't wait for the next chapter in your story. I am silently following along as i know nothing about cuttlefish except that I like them.

 

[SabrinaR]

Oh, sorry to hear you lost your baby and congrats on the new hatch.
I want more photos too. Those eggs look like black grapes, very pretty. I can't wait for the next chapter in your story. I am silently following along as i know nothing about cuttlefish except that I like them.

I will post pics soon... right now there is really nothing different. With octopuses because of how they move its like they are always posing; with cuttefish babies they just swim around or hide and to be honest I worry about stressing her out to much.

They do look like grapes. Well, grapes with little ties . They actually kind of feel like grapes too, once the grapes have softened a little bit.

This one thats hatched is def acting better than the other one I lost. Right now she swims around looking around. Her eyes are open and I can see her discovering her tenticals. Its pretty awesome to be honest. I wish more would hatch so that this cuttle wouldnt be alone, and I am excited to get my next shipment of eggs in come Wednesday. I ordered 10 in the hope that at least some would make it. If to many make it I will be forced to rehome some of them but thats something to worry about later I think. From everything I have read/been told, it will take months before I will have that problem.

 

[Cephdoc]

My tank is unfortunatly going through a really rough time right now for some reason, and i have no idea why... I spent all day trying to figure things out. I ordered some eggs also from your local fish store. 8, and i am not going to be able to purchase them. I dont want to spend them money when i know they will just die on me anyways i am kinda upset. Just my luck to almost be there for the livestock portion of it, and i run into issues. During my "FANTASTIC" day, i went to a LFS, and was talking with him trying to figure things out as well. And he told me he was able to get some eggs in when i needed them, so that was a relief... sk, i dont know what your LFS plans on doing with the eggs, but i hope they get to a good home..(YOU!!! LOL) I hope yours are doing well, please let me know how things are fairing. Thanks
Caleb

 

[SabrinaR]

Oh no! Yicks I dont know what I would do with 17 more eggs! I was going to PM you to find out if you were able to order. I am sorry your tanks gone nuts.

Right now it looks like 2 more are about to hatch... they are at the part where I can see them through the eggs so I might have to rehome some of my others as it is, though that wont happen for a while.

I will post them in the cuttles source section.

 

[Cephdoc]

How can you tell when the eggs are ready to hatch? Is it the bigger, more transparent the egg the closer they are to hatching? Because ive seen some small dark eggs, are those not viable anymore? Is it only the bigger ones that will survive?