The Australian Giant Cuttlefish is the world's largest cuttlefish species, growing up to 1.5m long Families Sepiadariidae Sepiidae Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus. ...
Cuttlefish are sometimes called the chameleon of the sea because of their remarkable ability to rapidly alter their skin color at will.
The blood of a cuttlefish is an unusual shade of green-blue because it uses the copper-containing protein hemocyanin to carry oxygen instead of the red iron-containing protein hemoglobin that is found in mammals.
In particular, cuttlefish need a minimum amount of sea water in proportion to their body size, their tank needs to be cleaned every time they ink, they cannot tolerate abrupt changes in light levels, and they cannot coexist with other animals, and rarely ever with other cuttlefish.
In 1939 the blast furnace and harbour began to be constructed and a commitment for a pipeline from the Murray River was made.
The population grew extremely rapidly, and the South Australian Housing Trust was building 500 houses a year to cope with the demand.
In the late 1990s the spectacular annual migration of the AustralianGiantCuttlefish Sepia apama to the reef areas north of Whyalla around Black Point and Point Lowly became recognised by international divers.
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