Cuttlefish Basics - Keeping a Cuttlefish as a Pet A tame cuttlefish grabs foods using its feeding tentacles The scientific name for a cuttlefish is Sepia In years gone by sepia ink, which is derived from cuttlefish, was used by artists for their paintings For the cuttlefish this ink is a decoy, a means of escape from predators
Keeping and Breeding Dwarf Cuttlefish (Sepia Bandensis Care) Cuttlefish eyesight tends to go as they reach senescence – the eyes cloud over and they find it hard to see their prey, and these are the symptoms that people have reported keeping cuttles under high intensity lighting It is hard to tell if the timing of the eye problems is coincidence or caused by the lighting
Before you buy a cuttlefish. . . . A cuttlefish for sale in the USA; swimming about in a marine aquarium at the Local Fish Shop (LFS) is more than likely to be a species called Sepia bandensis Other species do surface from time to time but S bandensis is the most commonly seen
[Cuttlefish Eggs]: - Baby cuttles My cuttlefish eggs arrived on the 10th with 24 hours notice so tank temperature was still stabilising I put the eggs in Two looked to have burst already in transit, a few looked odd I ordered three but they sent a few more I'm assuming S bandensis at this point
Sepia bandensis: husbandry and breeding The dwarf cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis, is one of the coolest animals on the planet It glides through the water like a little UFO, able to instantly change direction and speed As it darts around the tank, it can change the color and texture of its skin going from static rock like camouflage to patterns flowing across the canvas of its skin in an instant Sepia bandensis are phenomenal
Keeping cephalopods in captivity What is a Cephalopod? The order cephalopoda consists of four main types of animals: squid, cuttlefish, nautilus and octopus, the latter having the largest number of described species (~200) The word 'cephalopod' means head-foot, which is in reference to the fact that their limbs are attached onto their heads Cephalopods are all invertebrates and are closely related to other molluscs like
Hawaiian Cuttlefish? | The Octopus News Magazine Online There are no true cuttlefish native to Hawaii, but there is a bobtailed squid that's very similar in looks and lifestyle, which is most likely what you saw It's called Euprymna scolopes, the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (see Euprymna scolopes, Hawaiian bobtail squid - The Cephalopod Page for some pictures, or try a google image search on Euprymna