Octopus chierchiae breeding!

[Thales]

Funny after this weekend! Me so happy!
This species hasn't been seen in the trade for 10-20 years, and through wheeling and dealing I was able to get three specimens and breed them. The adult female's mantle is about the size of a thumbnail and the babies are less than 1/4 inch. Even though they are nocturnal, they may be the perfect small aquarium octo - interesting to look at, easy to feed, and breed-able. I have two babies, hopefully more on the way - and even better, this species doesn't die after brooding and will continue to eat and brood more eggs throughout her life.

Baby and Adult

 

[Elite]

Wow great news.. congrats Rich!!

 

[hooked]

those are soooooooo cool ! congrats

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Amazing

Congrats!

 

[Gomer]

You are on fire with your Ceph breeding!

 

[sfsuphysics]

Groovy baby, very groovy!

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Boom chicka wa wa

 

[Ibn]

Awesome! Congrats.

 

[TimTen]

its all the Cuttlefish porn you've been showing

 

[Raddogz]

Incredible Rich - Good Job!!!!

 

[iani]

Very cool.

 

[Tumbleweed]

They look SWEET! Congrats

 

[patchin]

Cute little guys. How big are they?

 

[Gomer]

almost big enough to eat.

 

[Paradox]

Neat! have they eaten yet and if so, what are you feeding them? Mysids?

 

[tuberider]

Rich has Barry White piped into every room in the house, good work man!

 

[Ibn]

Guessing this is one of the larger eggs species?

 

[GreshamH]

I wouldn't think so given the size of the adult. Those suckers a tiny IMO.

 

[Thales]

Yep, large egged species. Babies have no paralarvae stage and go straight to the sand.

 

[GreshamH]

You call those large eggs...coming out of that puny little thing? Dang, what size are small egg species, 50 microns