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Here ’s something you do n’t see every Clarence Day : the birth of thousands of octopus , caught on plastic film .
Thesetiny octopusesare the offspring of a CaribbeanOctopus vulgarisacquired by the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in January . Soon after the devilfish moved into the aquarium , biologist Richard Ross writeson his web log at Advanced Aquarist , she surprise everyone by laying eggs . Three weeks afterwards , those eggs dream up , turn the octopus ' tank into a " snow globe " of baby octopi , or paralarvae . [ See a close - up and video of the baby octopus ]
These millimeter-long baby octopuses hatched at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences.
Each hatchling is 0.04 inches ( 1 to 2 millimeters ) long . After they were have , the aquarium fed the sister octopi even petite brine shrimp and zooplankton . Unfortunately , Ross write , octopus paralarvae are difficult to keep alive in immurement , though many hold up up to 26 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . [ television of hatching octopod ]
The tale has a deplorable remnant for mom , too . This specie of octopusstops eatingafter she lays her thousands of egg and then die before long after they think of . The motherO. vulgarislived about two week after her larvae emerge , Ross told LiveScience .
