cuttlefish eggs

[dutchcourage]

Alomst a 100 eggs poor girl how many eggs are you keeping for yourself cuttlegirl?

 

[cuttlegirl]

I might keep three, then again, my LFS said they might like some too... it will depend on if I get a full time job...

 

[Animal Mother]

Sounds like you already have a full-time job! haha... 91 eggs...

Hopefully in the next few months my girlfriend and I will be able to take part in all this fun. She is really interested in keeping some. Everytime I show her your pics she talks about how cute they are. She thinks they are cuter than octos... pshhhh!
My 75 gallon tanks refugium has a plethora of various pods and I'm pretty sure if I put a net breeder in-line with the output of the refugium it would be a buffet. I'm considering selling my fish and corals to the local aquarium society members, just to keep some cuttles.

 

[cuttlegirl]

Need I say more??? Guess what...

 

[Animal Mother]

Need I say more??? Guess what...

Did she hit 100 yet?

 

[dutchcourage]

Need I say more??? Guess what...

NO WAY! She had more?????????????

 

[sorseress]

Seems like every time you take them away she lays more......She wants to be a mommy....ok, ok, I'm anthropomorphising.

 

[cuttlegirl]

Well, she did lay them in the exact same place, again... either it is the best place she could find in my tank or she is replacing them.

 

[dutchcourage]

I hate to say maybe you should leave them there.

 

[cuttlegirl]

I may do that... tomorrow I will have had the cuttles for six months. My husband's suggestion is to separate the female from the males - I may decide to do that also.

I did get to see Baby A make these eggs, it was pretty cool - I tried to take pictures but I think they are too blurry, I will have to look at them later. I could see her holding the eggs in her tentacles and then it took her less than a minute to attach them to the rock (I raced to the next room to grab the camera and when I came back she had attached the egg to the other eggs...) I really hope she is done, I am tired of going to FedEx all the time...

 

[DHyslop]

I'm starting to feel real lucky I had two males!

 

[cuttlegirl]

I just counted the eggs - 8 more, for a grand total of 99 eggs (I think she didn't want to hit triple digits).

 

[sorseress]

Can you imagine having 99 babies?!? At least with cuttles you don't have to worry about diapers....they're wet all the time anyway .

 

[cuttlegirl]

triple digits...

I just looked back over this thread and realized that she has been laying eggs on Saturdays for a few weeks... wonder if it takes a week for her to produce more eggs.

 

[DHyslop]

Muahahahaha!