is my octopus dying?

crazy4coral

crazy4coral

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Well, I have just rescued a baby "common" octopus from the fury of a hurricane and decided to bring it back home until I can either release it or sell it to an aquarium store. So, I just bought a lil tank to hold him over with some sand, rocks, fake plants and a sponge (dead, from the craft dept. at walmart) well.. all was going well and I put the lil guy in the nice new tank and yes I did acclimate it.. but here is the question, I made sure the water was the right temp and salinity, but I put him in it and within like 5 min after acclimated he started acting funny ( standing up on his testicles, flushing color, then spurt ink and stayed that way.. standing) so.. I just thought ok.. maybe it felt threatened. but it stayed like that for like an hour. so I took him out and he started flushing color but stayed ridged and didnt move. I could see the color still flushing and him blinking. so I hurried and made up some new salt water without all the new accessories (thinking it was something in them, like a chemical idk) I put him in the new cup of water and he started just moving the ends of him tenticles. and flushing color more. So I thought he was doing better.. well now he is hardly flushing any color or moving. PLEASE, help me!!!!!!!
 
texasmetal

texasmetal

Active Member
They can still change colors for a little while after dying, and it does sound like it was probably dead when you made this post. If things weren't going right and it seemed stressed out in the first place, taking it out of the tank again surely caused that much more stress. The best thing you can do for a stressed animal is leave it alone.
A new tank is never a solution for anything but sand and rock.
Sorry.
 
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gobidave

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( standing up on his testicles, flushing color, then spurt ink and stayed that way.. standing)
I know it would hurt me to stand on my testicles.
 
texasmetal

texasmetal

Active Member
Originally Posted by SrgVigil
http:///forum/post/2744328
do octopuses have testicles?
I thought about commenting on that too but I didn't want to sound snotty. Octopuses don't have testicles, or tentacles for that matter.
They have gonads, and arms. Tentacles flail about aimlessly and catch things that stick to them. Arms are, well, if you have arms you know how they work.
 
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