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Hi Tonmo,
I'm following up on my earlier posting of images of embryos from Tupactopus, an Octopus bimaculoides mom that we got in the lab this summer here at UC Berkeley. The embryos have since hatched and we are maintaining eight of them with the goal of performing a cross when they become sexually mature. I recently got an Olympus TG-1, which is an underwater point and shoot camera - and it is awesome. Using it, I've started shooting videos of the hatchlings and am now posting the videos on Vimeo at
Cephalopod videos on Vimeo
I'm still learning how to use the camera and how to shoot video but things should improve with time. I'm also learning how to raise Octopus from eggs as I go. So far, we've lost one hatchling that crawled out of a bowl. Also, initially all the hatchling were raised together and seemed to do great. But we later found there was some aggressive behavior going on between individuals (captured in one of the videos), including the loss of arm tips on a few animals. So we now have each one living in its own $2 laundry bag from Target. The laundry bags work great for allowing water flow and keeping hatchling and amphipods in. Eventually we want to replace the bags with with mesh insect containers, as they include one face of clear plastic that will allow us to look in on the animals. Finally, its been nearly a month since the embryos hatched and Tucpactopus is still going strong, though she is much smaller and weaker than when all this started in early August.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Hope you enjoy the videos.
Eric
I'm following up on my earlier posting of images of embryos from Tupactopus, an Octopus bimaculoides mom that we got in the lab this summer here at UC Berkeley. The embryos have since hatched and we are maintaining eight of them with the goal of performing a cross when they become sexually mature. I recently got an Olympus TG-1, which is an underwater point and shoot camera - and it is awesome. Using it, I've started shooting videos of the hatchlings and am now posting the videos on Vimeo at
Cephalopod videos on Vimeo
I'm still learning how to use the camera and how to shoot video but things should improve with time. I'm also learning how to raise Octopus from eggs as I go. So far, we've lost one hatchling that crawled out of a bowl. Also, initially all the hatchling were raised together and seemed to do great. But we later found there was some aggressive behavior going on between individuals (captured in one of the videos), including the loss of arm tips on a few animals. So we now have each one living in its own $2 laundry bag from Target. The laundry bags work great for allowing water flow and keeping hatchling and amphipods in. Eventually we want to replace the bags with with mesh insect containers, as they include one face of clear plastic that will allow us to look in on the animals. Finally, its been nearly a month since the embryos hatched and Tucpactopus is still going strong, though she is much smaller and weaker than when all this started in early August.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Hope you enjoy the videos.
Eric