[Cuttlefish]: Dreadhead's Cuttlefish journal

[dreadhead]

A few more.
They are starting to eat the dead shore shrimp, not off the stick yet... but it's a start.
The one in the second pic is trying to mimic a tick.

 

[dreadhead]

A few of the same pics I cropped.

 

[L8 2 RISE]

I like the first one, it looks like it is examining the bristle worm


Hmmmmm.... I wonder if that's tasty?

 

[dreadhead]

Its actually looking at the shrimp on thr other side of the worm.
But it does look that way.

 

[Fishfreak218]

about how old are they and how big are they?

 

[dreadhead]

I think they hatched in March, and they are about 1" maybe a little longer and starting to get fat!

 

[dreadhead]

I still don't see them out during the day, they both come out for food when the lights go out.
I have noticed the bigger one shows a lot more color, and is more out going. Hopefully they will turn out to be a pair.

 

[dreadhead]

Tonight I fed them with a fishing line, the both took the shrimp with no problems.

 

[dreadhead]

All is well. I tried to hand feed them today, Although they don't mind my face against the glass they don't like my hand in the tank. As soon as my hand went in they made for the rock, but came right back out after my hand left the tank.

 

[dreadhead]

The cuttle's are eating 3 to 4 shore shrimp a day, so I'm starting to feed them larger pray item's. The fish gave quite a struggle.
They definitely see me as food guy, they come up to the glass every morning and evening looking for food(this is new in the last few days).

 

[gholland]

Excellent pics! Keep working on the hand-feeding... that would be sweet.

 

[L8 2 RISE]

what type of fish is that, is it just one you got from a pet store as food or is it a bait fish, did you collect it?

 

[dreadhead]

I'm not sure what it is. I caught it the same place I find the shore shrimp.

 

[DWhatley]

Did it swim constantly before you fed it? It looks a lot like one we caught in Charleston with our shore shrimp that is now in the nano. It never stays still, day or night, is silver and reflects various colors (not particularly attractive) depending upon how the light catches it.

 

[dreadhead]

I believe they are spearing(but not sure). In the bay they swam all over the place, but when I droped them in the tank they just tried to hide, but I guess it's hard to hide from a hungry cuttle.