The Marinelife Aquarium Society of Michigan, MASM, has officially kicked off their innovative Breeding Initiative with their first Breeders Challenge. If you have been looking for an excuse to get into breeding marine ornamentals, this is the program you have…
Love the ink, hate the needle?
If you like tattoos and octopus, but fear needles, then these tights from Esty are for you. Slide the silky Italian 40 Den tights up your legs and sport what everyone will think is an octopus tattoo, raising your status…
Breed Banggai Cardinals!
Breed Banggai cardinals already!
The allure of a pure frag swap
I have been fortunate to attend several frag events around the country this year, but none gets me as excited as the Bay Area Reefers (BAR) regional fragswap. Last weekend there were no guest speakers, no vendor booths, and best…
Blanket Octopus Video
This is an amazing animal and an amazing piece of footage. The good folks at www.TONMO.com (your source for all things cehpy) have ID’d the animal as one of the blanket octopuses, Tremoctopus violaceus. Blanket octopus are rarely seen…
Piglet Squid smiles for the camera
This one is weirder than usual for cephs. Helicocrancchia pfefferi – the piglet squid. The name of this wee beastie comes from the funny location of its siphon in relation to its eyes and from the wild, hair like looking…
Wunderpus markings are unique and allow for photoidentification
As it turns out, those pretty spots on the mantle of the octopus Wunderpus photogenicus are unique to each animal and could be used to track these animals in the wild in much the same way that whales are tracked.…
As flamboyant as I wanna be
Hi, my name is Rich Ross and I am way into cephalopods. Keeping them, breeding them, eating them. Mostly the first two. One of the holy grails of ceph keeping are the two Metasepia species, the flamboyant cuttlefish. I have a…