75g Of British cuttlefish pieces, better value than buying whole bits! The total packet will weigh >100g, so we allow 10g for the packaging. 


The below text is my own words, any cut and pasting will be reported.


After breeding, the female cuttlefish die and a few weeks later, their skeletons are washed up on beaches. All my listed cuttlebone are British washed up specimens. They have not been net or line caught. They have died naturally after completing their life cycle. This causes no damage to the environment, with a low carbon footprint as these have not been shipped from the Far East, and the collection is totally sustainable.


The down side (if you can call it that) is after the females die the flesh is stripped of by various sea inhabitants, going back into the cycle of life. This means that they will not look as perfect as the processed ones you see it the packets or bags in pet store. Seabirds are particularly fond of cuttlefish and they will clean the bone, but while doing so they will sometime leave beak marks. Often they are broken or chipped, however what creature (apart from us humans) will care about that!


The processed ones are cleaned with harsh bleaches, mine are cleaned in fresh salt water, then a reptile safe disinfectant, then soaked in fresh water for ten days and then finally sun bleached.


A Cuttlebone is the inside of a cuttlefish, which is a member of the cephalopod family. It’s not really a bone, but the internal shell which has gas-filled internal chambers that keep the cuttlefish afloat and benefits birds due to its high content of calcium, iron to help with red- blood-cell formation, potassium to aid normal heart and muscle activity, zinc which helps with a bird’s immune system and copper to improve its circulation and healing. Cuttlefish really is a superfood for bird and reptiles.


Hen birds need these nutrients during egg production to help produce thick- shelled eggs. If there is a deficiency in her diet she will only lay thin-shelled eggs. Cuttlefish is a multi-purpose product as the shell also helps to polish beaks but in addition, is introducing a different texture to the cage.


Tortoises and reptiles, Chinchillas, hermit crabs, shrimps, land snails all need cuttlebone in there diet.


*Low carbon foot print, not shipped in from the Far East.
*Fully sustainable product. 
*No creature has been harmed producing this product. 
*Hand cleaned, not bleached or chemically treated.
*Fully sun cured, ready to use.
*We collect any plastics we find on the beach as we're collecting.