Octopus-tiny octopus is a descendant of the Caribbean octopus, Octopus vulgaris, which was acquired by the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, in January.
As soon as the octopus moved to the aquarium, biologists Richard Ross writes in Advanced Aquarist that parent-octopus octopus little surprised everyone with her eggs. 3 weeks later, the eggs hatch, change the octopus tank to 'snowball' baby octopus or paralarva.
Each baby octopus has a length of 0.04 inch (1-2 mm). They were fed in the form of brine shrimp and zooplankton. Unfortunately, Ross wrote, octopus paralarva it difficult to keep alive in captivity, although many who survived to 26 days.
This story has a sad ending for the mother. He was a hunger strike after the spawn, then die after thousands of eggs hatch. Ross told LiveScience that the mother lived about two weeks after the larval-larvae emerge.
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