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Awesome. Antennarius pictus. Good luck with him.

Originally Posted by Mr.clownfish he started freaking out when it saw the camera he is maybe an inch long srry this is the only pic i could get THAT looks much more like an O. briareus. Like this one perhaps?

Originally Posted by Mr.clownfish I caught him!! finally!!! i tried the bottle thing. i filled it with tiny crabs from the market and i found him eating it. sucker grew a lot! i sold him to my Lfs for 40 bucks. i asked him what kind of octo it was he said it was most likey a mimic but i dont...

Originally Posted by FishyGurl wow thats really cool!!! lol too bad they dont live that long in home aquariums... hmm what if someone was a rock collecter and they were picking up rocks and there was a blue ring inside it and it came out and bit him and killed him have you ever heard of...

Originally Posted by FishyGurl i thought i read somewhere that octos can fit in anything bigger than their eye.. is this true?? Anything bigger than their beak, which is smaller than their eyes. Only hard surface in their body. Otherwise they can pour their body right through a hole or crack...

And just to clarify, Mimics and Wunderpus are not common by any means, although they are exploited like they are.

Originally Posted by Greg9871 well to tell if they are male or female it appears that you have to look inside the mantle and look for some kind of gland, but to me i would think that you would kill it in the process of trying to do so Wrong. The third right arm is the hectocotylus on the male...

Possibly baby O. briareus judging by the webbing on the arms and blue iridescent color with red mottling. If so, it will grow to around 24" arms, 7" mantle. For now it will eat fiddlers, hermits, snails. When it grows big enough it will eat anything. I'm skeptical though. The mantle-arm size...

12-18 months most likely. 2 years at best.

We keep H. comes and H. erectus together without problems.

Originally Posted by Aqua_Scaping lol so your that animal mother im happy that paradox doesnt have them yet so i can get mroe money It's the other way around for me. I'm hoping he has them soon so I haven't spent my money. So many other things I could take care of with that stimulus check.

Originally Posted by GRabbitt I'm curious about the tank she is in... Is there a latched lid on it? Have you ever caught her peekin outside the tank? I've read some crazy stories about their out-of-tank escapades. I love octo's, but I still have a lot of learning to do before I get one myself...

Your worst fear is confirmed. You're going to have to pull all the rock out. There are fish traps, but you would probably catch every other fish first.

Originally Posted by Aqua_Scaping well due to my newness to the trade i had returned them and decided to purchase them from paradox (from tonmo). I am number 2 on his list and will be purchasing the 1 month so i have more of a chance. here is my tank/specs 38 gallon tall hex 100 gph protein...

Originally Posted by GRabbitt Hey hey, pleasant surprise when I clicked on this thread! Great octo! Do you have any games you play with him/her yet? We play tug-of-war with a skewer when I feed her sometimes. It's like trying to uproot a tree. She is amazingly strong. I've been allowing her to...

Originally Posted by ianizaguirre how many gallons 75.

Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy HOw long have u had it? I've had her for 5 months on the 18th. She was the size of a grape when I got her. Smaller actually. Her mantle's the size of a lemon now, arms about 16 inches long. She can reach over halfway across the tank, which is 48" wide.

Originally Posted by Aqua_Scaping I have just recieved cuttle eggs can you offer any advice? they are the dwarf ones but dunno what color.........yet You mean Sepia bandensis? What do you need to know? You should keep them in a net breeder for the first few weeks until they grow large enough...