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Hi all,
On friday my LFS had some unidentified black cuttle eggs. Some already hatched and I think they are S Bandensis -Any clue on this will be appreciated. You'll find a pic below-
So long time I was looking for it (1 year), I got one with me.
I'm fish breeder and maintain live cultures, tech about rearing tanks, egg chambers, etc is not new for me.
I put it in a dark blue nursery tank, just 1gal with rounded corners and a direct input of water from a central system.
Sand, red macroalgae and a couple of small live rocks is all I put there.
First was very interesting to see the reaction to water flow. In the store and on saturday in a baby net inside the main aquarium it was completely motionless.
Yesterday I prepared the good nursery tank and she started to swim from here to there, all the time. Hanging on the leafs, then going up and down, and specilly going under the water flow to play. Then hidden in the algae for a while and come back. Was a very surprising reaction. Back and forth all the time...
(Of course its not too much flow , I use a 5mm plastic pipe, same uses the aireator, connected to a micropump, up to the minimum power)
Also I put a small amount of rotifer, harpacticoid copepods and artemia nauplii in the tank every 5-6 hours. Seemed to me the cuttlefish went out the algae and feed on it. Im not sure because its very small, just noticed some short and fast movements aproaching the target... I readed they may stay about two weeks without feeding at this stage, so first question is: they really feed at 2-3 days old?
Hopefully I'll get back my copepod culture (excellent USA Reed trigriopus) on friday.
Sorry for the long post, so long time waiting makes me a bit (lier, I'm a lot) excited
Any advice or experience from the forum will be welcomed.
Thank you!
PD: I uploaded some pics to the multimedia area, but heres a pic for you:
On friday my LFS had some unidentified black cuttle eggs. Some already hatched and I think they are S Bandensis -Any clue on this will be appreciated. You'll find a pic below-
So long time I was looking for it (1 year), I got one with me.
I'm fish breeder and maintain live cultures, tech about rearing tanks, egg chambers, etc is not new for me.
I put it in a dark blue nursery tank, just 1gal with rounded corners and a direct input of water from a central system.
Sand, red macroalgae and a couple of small live rocks is all I put there.
First was very interesting to see the reaction to water flow. In the store and on saturday in a baby net inside the main aquarium it was completely motionless.
Yesterday I prepared the good nursery tank and she started to swim from here to there, all the time. Hanging on the leafs, then going up and down, and specilly going under the water flow to play. Then hidden in the algae for a while and come back. Was a very surprising reaction. Back and forth all the time...
(Of course its not too much flow , I use a 5mm plastic pipe, same uses the aireator, connected to a micropump, up to the minimum power)
Also I put a small amount of rotifer, harpacticoid copepods and artemia nauplii in the tank every 5-6 hours. Seemed to me the cuttlefish went out the algae and feed on it. Im not sure because its very small, just noticed some short and fast movements aproaching the target... I readed they may stay about two weeks without feeding at this stage, so first question is: they really feed at 2-3 days old?
Hopefully I'll get back my copepod culture (excellent USA Reed trigriopus) on friday.
Sorry for the long post, so long time waiting makes me a bit (lier, I'm a lot) excited
Any advice or experience from the forum will be welcomed.
Thank you!
PD: I uploaded some pics to the multimedia area, but heres a pic for you: