Boyle P R
Lab Anim. 1981 Oct;15(4):327-31. doi: 10.1258/002367781780952807.
Healthy, undamaged specimens survive well in recirculating aquarium seawater of about 36 parts per thousand salinity and PH 7.4, having 50 mg.1(-1) nitrogen as nitrate, less than 0.1 mg.1(-1) nitrogen as nitrite, nitrogen as nitrate, and less than 0.1 mg.1(-1) nitrogen as ammonia, and a m ean annual temperature of 14-15 degree C, about 5 degree C above ambient. For maximal growth rates, the gross wet weight of liver crabs required as food ranges up to 10% of the weight of the octopus. Weight-specific growth rates fall from 3.4% day-1 at 100-200 g bodyweight, to 1-1.5% day-1 at greater than 500 g bodyweight. Survival of healthy, wild-caught animals, commonly 4.6 months and up to 8 months, is apparently limited more by endogenous factors concerned with sexual maturation and lifespan than by aquarium conditions. Eggs have been laid but it has not yet been possible to hatch and rear them.
健康、未受损的标本在盐度约为千分之三十六、pH值为7.4的循环水族箱海水中存活良好，其中硝酸盐氮含量为50毫克/升，亚硝酸盐氮含量低于0.1毫克/升，氨氮含量低于0.1毫克/升，年平均温度为14 - 15摄氏度，比环境温度高约5摄氏度。为实现最大生长率，作为食物所需的肝蟹总湿重可达章鱼体重的10%。特定体重生长率从体重100 - 200克时的3.4%/天，降至体重超过500克时的1 - 1.5%/天。健康的野生捕获动物的存活时间通常为4.6个月，最长可达8个月，显然更多地受到与性成熟和寿命相关的内源性因素限制，而非水族箱条件。已经产卵，但尚未能够孵化和饲养它们。
