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Watch the live stream of our coral reef tank, which houses 12 of our dwarf cuttlefish as well as some cnidarians, mollusks, arthropods and echinoderms native to the Indo-Pacific.

See if you can spot some interesting cuttlefish behaviors! They may include:

Camouflage (cuttlefish can change their skin pattern and 3D texture in milliseconds)

Mating (a head-to-head embrace)

Fighting (usually two males, featuring dark brown skin with white flecks, an elongated body, and a flickering fin)

Egg-laying (look for a female cuttlefish depositing a cluster of large black spheres, like grapes)

Feeding (takes place 3x per day, featuring a meal of live grass shrimp)

Dynamic waves of pigmentation on their skin (we don’t know why they do this!)

Inking (cuttlefish can release jet-black ink to evade predators or foes)

Or maybe some other behaviors we haven’t noticed before…

Featured species

Cuttlefish

Dwarf cuttlefish - Sepia bandensis

For more information contact our Cephalopod Facility Manager, Connor Gibbons