Babies!!!!

[Mustang]

Hey all, just wanted to post a pic of some babies they actually are not from my Octo. They are from a friend of mine Andy
(He should be around here)

Anyways both of use purchased a couple of Octos from Fish supply Mine died within week.

Andy's laid eggs (small) and today they hatched I got a few from him to try and raise.


I happen to have a frag grow out system (see LINK) that I have been dosing a constant flow of Phyto to for a few months now it just LOADED with bugs I have a cryptic area that has a super slow flow so I put 5 in there to see.

The thread on the system is
HERE (http://reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96801)


I know there isn't much chance but what the heck
I only put 5 figuring they would compete for the aval food so the less I put in there the better there chances are

Here is a pic of the little ones
http://www.kensreef.homestead.com/files/baby_octos.jpg

[Asterix]

Wow, REALLY COOL! Good luck with the babys...Although, From what I understand it wont work...Cephlapoder has experience with this... Hopefully he will chime in with some info..!

It took me forever to spot the octos! When I first saw them, They looked like white flatworms to me!

[Death Shrimp99]

Do all octos always lay eggs before they die(bimac)? What are the odds of the baby octos surviveing? If your octo lays eggs then dies then the baby octos grow up and lay eggs then die and so on in your tank would that work so you would never really have to buy more than 1 octo?

[jimichonga]

If the octo is captive bread, it will probably not have eggs. If it is wild-caught you have a chance of it laying eggs.

The newly hatched octos will not lay eggs when they mature.
What happens in the wild is: after octos mate, the female stores the sperm for the remainder of her life(she only mates once). When the female reaches the end of her life-span she fertilizes her eggs with the sperm she has been carrying and then she lays her eggs.

Captive breading octos would be a major under-taking, you would have to work together with others that are "breeding" in order to keep the Gene-pool clean.