They have 8 arms and two tentacles. The tentacles are shot out quickly to capture prey, and the arms are used to hold and move the prey around once it is caught. They have a parot-like beak and a radula to tear and rasp the prey. After a female has mated, she will lay eggs. Each egg is put into a separate egg case that is about 1-2 cm long.
Ink is added to the egg case to make it dark.
Each egg case is attached individually to things on the bottom. Cuttlefish can lay eggs several times at the end of their life. Eggs take about 2 months to hatch, but this time depends a lot on the temperature of the water that they are in. Sepia officinalis . In Cephalopod Life Cycles, vol.