Secret Home Lab on Adam Savage’s Tested

27. October 2020 · Write a comment · Categories: About Rich Ross, Adam Savage's Tested, Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods, Interview

The Tested Crew came over to the SHL as part 3 in a 4 part series about building an octopus puzzle.

(Note: This is a video series we filmed in 2018, before the current pandemic lockdown.) While we wait for the California Academy of Science’s Giant Pacific Octopus to learn Adam’s puzzle, Kishore and Indre visit biologist and cephalopod expert Rich Ross’ home aquarium and lab where Rich breeds and raises octopuses and other amazing critters. It’s one of the most fascinating home laboratories we’ve visited!

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoj6…
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIUIC…
Indre Viskontas: https://twitter.com/indrevis
Kishore Hari: https://twitter.com/sciencequiche

Adam Savage says nice things about Rich

28. December 2018 · Write a comment · Categories: About Rich Ross, Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods, Tested, Video

Local copy here

I’m mentioned a few times, but the good chunk is at about 29:40, which is where the youtube video below should start. There is a bunch of ceph stuff earlier.

Love, Octopus-ly – Science Friday covers the Secret Home Lab

21. June 2017 · Write a comment · Categories: About Rich Ross, Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods, Science Friday

From Science Friday

Full-time biologist—part-time cephalopod matchmaker, Richard Ross invites us into his secret home lab where he studies the mating rituals of the lesser Pacific striped Octopus.

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Designer clownfish as feeder fish

09. March 2017 · Write a comment · Categories: Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods, Uncategorized

From Advanced Aquarist

By Richard Ross – Posted Mar 24, 2014 09:30 AM
This video of a juvenile dwarf cuttlefish eating a captive raised designer clownfish is not just fantastic to watch, but it may point us in a new direction for feeding marine predators.

This week, Chad Vossen of Vossen Aquatics and builder of the famed Vossen Larval Snagger, started feeding tiny clownfish, including Platinum clowns to his very young Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis. Cuttlefish hunting and feeding is always amazing to watch, but watching a cuttlefish hunt and eat a captive bred designer clownfish brings the experience to a whole ‘nother level that will thrill some while making others uncomfortable. After all that is a captive bred fish, and every captive bred fish is special, and expensive captive bred fish are even more special right
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National Geographic Magazine – What’s Odd About That Octopus? It’s Mating Beak to Beak.

28. March 2016 · Write a comment · Categories: Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods, Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, National Geographic

LPSO covered in the print version of National Geographic, April 2016 edition.
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Online version here: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/basic-instincts-octopus-mating/ More »

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