And now we know the origin of MR. SNUFFLEUPAGUS.

You do realize it’s sitting there, plotting the overthrow of the hairless apes?

thankies for the infos, Keight, but yesh, I know I won’t be getting any for quite a while. My plan is to keep goldfish, then tropical freshwater fish, saltwater fish, two-spot octopus, and then cuttlefish. I lurk at tonmo.com, too.

Yes, I am pirate-obsessed.
You should know that by now.

The Cutekren will destroy the Pearl with Squee-ings and Rule 24 and you along with it!
To zer0: Squee-a! Squee-a! Cutethuhu Fhtagn!
Cutethuhu riseth from R’Lyeh and he sayeth: “Baroooo!”

(oh – I mentioned them bumping into walls when they get startled as bad b/c they get something called “butt burn” and all their skin starts peeling off. ( And they can get bad infections that way. booo…)

>>EEEEE! my fave animal of all time! once I learn how to take care of aquatic pets more difficult than goldfish, I’m getting one of these!

Octochan – they’re REALLY hard to take care of. You can’t have them in a regular (square) aquarium b/c they bump into the walls a lot, and they’re incredibly sensitive to water quality. If you don’t have any experience at all with maintaining a salt water tank, this should NOT be your first saltwater pet. You don’t want to set up a whole salt tank ($$$) and then get a couple of these guys ($$$! And some are endangered!) only to have them die. Or eat each other (yep, they do). It would be sad for them and for you. I don’t recommend them as pets, cute as they are.

My hubby did his grad school research on them. He got good at taking care of them, but they had special tanks and specially filtered salt water straight from the actual ocean, and still they sometimes died for no reason. Yes, and ate each other a lot.

But one glorious summer they actually managed to put a female in with the big male that he did NOT eat and kill (5 females later…) and got a hundred weeny babies no bigger than your THUMB. So cute you could die. I wanted one!! He wouldn’t gimme!!! Hee.

This wins a cuttlefish prize!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT_ia2zdR88

It’s Cutethulhu!

It’s a li’l baby Navigator from Dune.