Flamboyant Cuttlefish / big reef tank

[herbertmt]

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone has any advice on rearing baby cuttlefish?

I have around 50 eggs, so far 1 hatchling.

If anyone wants some - please let me know as i can't realistically keep 50!

Oxford UK based

Thanks

 

[Crabs McJones]

Welcome to R2R! While I don't have the husbandry or expertise to house a cuttlefish, I sure would like to see pictures of the little guys

#WelcometoR2R

 

[mike werner]

welcome to r2r +1 on the pics

 

[herbertmt]

Here you go..

Found the eggs in the coconut first - then second clump behind the rock work.. now on 5 clumps of them!

As I say - if anyone would like some these were laid between a week ago and today.. they’re obviously tank bred too.

Thanks!

 

[Turbo's Aquatics]

That's awesome!!

Welcome to R2R! I don't know anything about rearing cuttlefish but it sounds like you have the opportunity to spread them around!

 

[Crabs McJones]

That is so cool!!!

 

[PDR]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R and your new reefing community.

 

[Antics]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Dsnakes]

Welcome to R2R. That is very neat!

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Thomashtom]

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone has any advice on rearing baby cuttlefish?

I have around 50 eggs, so far 1 hatchling.

If anyone wants some - please let me know as i can't realistically keep 50!

Oxford UK based

Thanks

Very interested in them. Had a couple awhile back. Please let me know. Thanks Tom

 

[DLHDesign]

Boom! Now THAT'S how you make an entrance onto the forums. Welcome!

I would love to have a cuttlefish tank, but I am absolutely certain that I'd never be able to keep up on feeding them live food all the time... Also; I'm in the states and shipping them here would be a huge pain/risk/expense. Hope you find a home for them - such awesome critters!

 

[Rispa]

Yeah, this is definitely an entrance. Welcome aboard! How did you get into aquarium keeping? How did your start keeping cuttlefish?

 

[trevormass7]

Haha you ship to the states?

 

[herbertmt]

I started about 8 years ago with a 4 ft tank - broke it down after two years and then got a 6x2x2 broke that down and now i managed to buy a house..

So current main tank is a 7.5x3x3. Found one cuttle and managed to get hold of two more from TMC (Uk distro) setup a 175L tank for them in the hope to breed them... Now a bit over my game with the amount of eggs i have (research suggested 15 eggs per time is normal, not 50!)

I could ship Eggs to the states, the babies won't ship and adult success rate would be stupidly poor. I'd probably want someone to suggest a next day carrier and also tell me exactly how they want it packaged as i'm sure success rate wouldn't be great - i don't think anyone globally sells Eggs from what i can find though. Happy to try to one person and see if it worked out type thing.

 

[Reefer Deez]

Hello and welcome to R2R
It's a pleasure to have you here with us

 

[Sallstrom]

Hi!

We tried flamboyant for a temporary exhibit at work a while ago. We bought a couple of adults and they laid eggs. But we didn't have any luck with the newly hatched Flamboyant cuttlefish. We tried different live food as gammarus and small mysis shrimp, which works fine for Sepia bandensis. I know this was during the summer, so our water might have been a bit too warm. We kept them in a reef tank system.
With Sepia bandensis we have a lot of success, have had many generations. But we haven't tried Flamboyant again unfortunately.

I think Horniman museum and Gardens in London breed Flamboyant cuttlefish now, maybe you could check with them.

 

[herbertmt]

Hi!

We tried flamboyant for a temporary exhibit at work a while ago. We bought a couple of adults and they laid eggs. But we didn't have any luck with the newly hatched Flamboyant cuttlefish. We tried different live food as gammarus and small mysis shrimp, which works fine for Sepia bandensis. I know this was during the summer, so our water might have been a bit too warm. We kept them in a reef tank system.
With Sepia bandensis we have a lot of success, have had many generations. But we haven't tried Flamboyant again unfortunately.

I think Horniman museum and Gardens in London breed Flamboyant cuttlefish now, maybe you could check with them.

I will get in touch - food i think is the only real issue!

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R

 

[cracker]

Fantastic work !

 

[andrewkw]

Wow! I've never seen anyone with flamboyant eggs! Definitely my dream ceph. I have experience with sepia bandensis as well as octopus briareus. I haven't been on the forums in a long time but are you posting on tonmo? I'm sure they'd love to see this. This is the first hobbiest level breeding of flamboyants I've heard about although since I stopped keeping cephalopods I haven't kept up on the news.}

What temp do you keep the water?
What are you currently feeding the babies?

Congrats you should certainly share your great experience with as many people as possible. I'd love to see more photos and videos of your system. Thanks for sharing.