Blue Ring Octopus

[Birdy916]

The baby anglers hatch out as tiny adults basically.
No rotifers or phytoplankton needed...
They ate various stages of brine shrimp...

I sold them all to some guy in Japan.
I do not know what ever became of them....

 

[MikeyTN]

That's pretty neat! Were you having to supplement stuffs to feed the brine shrimp before feeding the fry??? I didn't feel like raising rotifer and phytoplankton as it seem like one heck of a job doing it...

 

[thekarens]

That is so cool! We used to raise clownfish. We had our own reef tank, but a friend of ours had a pair of clowns that laid eggs regularly and the night before they world hatch we'd take the rock with the eggs home and hatch them in our nursery, raise them, then sell them to the local fish store.

 

[Birdy916]

like at first when the fish were teeny-tiny, they would eat freshly hatched nauplii(baby brine shrimps)
Once I took them out of the breeder net and into the tank with LR, they started chasing down the various pods I raised for the purpose.

The babies grew quickly and ate my all my tanks out of pods, then they started eating each other......
I went from 200+ to less than 100 in a very short time once that started happening.

So in order to maximize their survival I needed to separate them and such, which was a nightmare...

So a contact in Japan that I used to get reptiles and amphibians from(they got all the cool stuff in japan and germany as far as animals) bought them from me and sold them to some japanese fish guru guy that hopefully was able to handle them.... lol, he paid ALOT of money for them, plus the shipping costs.

Its not a very popular type of fish, even among frogfish.... but as far as I was ever able to discover, at the time, only myself and one guy from like spain or portugal was able to raise the babies or even get them to eat, all other attempts the babies never ate and died within a day or 2.
And I believe that guy only raised them to about less than 14 days, mine were over 30 days when I shipped them out.

My fish bred 2x, the 1st clutch I didnt know anything about it and they died, that is my 2nd clutch, and I was a lot more prepared....

The parent fish both died not long after this; at one point I had about 9 of them males and females for sure, no others ever bred for me again....

It was an interesting experience.

 

[MikeyTN]

I bet it was interesting. How did your pair die???

 

[kq_fan]

That is so cool!!! Its to bad that they don't live longer though! :\

 

[Birdy916]

Lol, mamma choked on daddy....
Yes, theres not much to the life of a frogfish except food and sex, and if they can combine the 2.....

 

[Birdy916]

That is so cool!!! Its to bad that they don't live longer though! :\

Ive been expecting to find it dead and sucked thru the pump for a few weeks now, its tentacles are getting tattered and its slowed down alot, its gotta be getting close to its time...

Poor little guy, its one of the least demanding pets of any kind ive ever had...
Thats my last running tank tho, Ill be glad when I unplug and drain it....

 

[Lintini]

the heck greg you didn't tell me you had salt tanks, you trump me with my baby 20 gallon and my dumb dwarf lionfish *cry*

and i thought i was living dangerously with a lionfish........jeeez!!!!!!!

*jealous* i love those anglers!!!

 

[Birdy916]

Ha!
You never asked...

 

[SpotsandSally]

Wow! Lovely octo. How long do they usually live?

I have a measly little 10 gal that isn't doing so good, yours looks beautiful.

 

[Birdy916]

Wow! Lovely octo. How long do they usually live?

I have a measly little 10 gal that isn't doing so good, yours looks beautiful.

I admit, its been a while since I looked at all my research info, but just off the top of my head, most of the cephalopods live only till they reach sexual maturity then die right after mating.

I wanna say the natural lifespan of a blue ring is only about 18 months or less, but like I said its been a while since I had the facts right in front of me..

Ive had this little guy for damn near all of 18months now, probably more... Im expecting to find it floating any day now, tho like I said Ill probably find it sucked thru the pump into a little mushy blob of slime...

It has refused feeding 3x now in the last couple of weeks....