SQUIDCAM

[Steve O'Shea]

... but with cephs you never know when a catastrophe hits and we lose them. So, unless something terrible happens I think you can count on a few more months (at the very least).

JINX! Went in this morn for the next feed ... and there's half of the larger one on the tank floor.

Contemplating next steps.

 

[corw314]

What do you think happened? Sorry to hear.....

 

[chrono_war01]

What the hell happened

 

[Steve O'Shea]

We'll never know - one just ripped into the other, leaving only half of it in the bottom of the tank. I've seen cannibalism before, but not with just 2 animals in a tank. I suppose I'd best be on the lookout for autophagy ....

This afternoon I'm changing the diet of this lone fella. I'm going to give him some glass shrimp. You might see a few funny things if you tune in late US time (I don't know the time difference, but I'll probably drop the food in ~ 7.30pm this evening)

 

[corw314]

7:30 your time???? It's 9:30 here, so how many hours difference?

 

[Steve O'Shea]

It's now 3.30pm, so 6hrs? You'll be sleeping

 

[corw314]

Maybe not... I don't sleep much these days.... so 1:30am our time ! We'll see....

 

[chrono_war01]

Oo....So, you planning to post pics actually? We the less fortunate poeple who needs sleep and school might also want to see this..

 

[Steve O'Shea]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 .... hope you're watching!

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Well, I saw the excitement from up top; obviously someone was watching from their desk, because when I returned the squid was zoomed up to the max, with 8 arms and 2 tentacles stuffed chocker-full of shrimp!!

There was a ton of food for it anyway ... guess it just wanted something different (we cannot have steak and beans every night can we )

Just a couple of pics; someone else is chasing it around the tank right now.

 

[chrono_war01]

Lol

Wow, this is great! I'm currently battling for control of the camera! This is very interesting.,..

 

[Steve O'Shea]

The problem with shrimp and a naive squid is all the spines. I saw him a couple of times attack a shrimp, only to shoot backwards, aborting the attack, with a spine or two in its arms. That's the gamble. Squiddy will learn, but at what cost. Cross fingers yet again.

 

[chrono_war01]

Lol

I remember dropping a crab into a octo den while i was scuba diving, the crab won... the octo went white and swam away

 

[corw314]

I missed it!!! Do you feed that time every night? Last time I checked in was at 1AM EST....

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Hi Carol; I'm glad you slept!! No, I don't normally feed them at that time - the tides were right for me to get to a 'secret spot' and collect numerous glass shrimp, and I had a little time up my sleeve to do it. Usually I just saturate the tank and let the squid feed themselves when they want it; this early US am timing was pretty much a one-off.

It was pretty incredible.