octopus
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the croc hunter
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I have one flourishing in a system 12 eclipse. He lives with 20 lbs of live rock and 2 damsels. I had a brain coral in there with him for a while (it was healing...) and it was fine!
bhav_88
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Well, it needs a steady supply of live food for one thing. If you can't get that, don't even try. You also need to TOTALLY close off the top of the tank. Here is a story I heard:
A guy who had an octopus didn't close off the tank. Well, across the room, he kept his bowl of feeder goldfish. The Octopus climbed out, crawled across the room, got in the tank with the goldfish, ate them, then WENT BACK TO THE MAIN TANK.
The good news is that they are not stupid. However, you need lots of places for it to hide, and toys. Yes, you need toys. I told you, they aren't stupid. A floating Hydrometer will do. What he'll do is pull it down to the bottom and let it go back up to the top. He definately needs timed lights, but most people have those anyway. Hope this helps you.
A guy who had an octopus didn't close off the tank. Well, across the room, he kept his bowl of feeder goldfish. The Octopus climbed out, crawled across the room, got in the tank with the goldfish, ate them, then WENT BACK TO THE MAIN TANK.
The good news is that they are not stupid. However, you need lots of places for it to hide, and toys. Yes, you need toys. I told you, they aren't stupid. A floating Hydrometer will do. What he'll do is pull it down to the bottom and let it go back up to the top. He definately needs timed lights, but most people have those anyway. Hope this helps you.
flame cardinal
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what type of filter would you use if you close the top comptley off?i have been wondering that for a while what type on a 20 gallon tank 
crazy bout salt
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i heard a story that at a aquarium they had a big octopus and ebcause they ddint have the tank sealed off everynight the octo climbed out of hsi tank wen tinto others ate the fish and then went bakc into his own tank everynight untill they set up a video camera and found out where all there fish were goin lol
piscesblue
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I had an octopus (Sparky) for 6 months and learned that most of the information batted around on BB's is false. Here is what I learned:
Octopods are as intelligent as a cat, they'll play games with you and know when they are doing something that you don't like.
They will spit water several feet out of the tank at you when you try to punish them.
They are VERY strong! Sparky could pick up any rock he could wrap his legs around, and his wingspan was just over 1ft.
Octopods are picky eaters. Somedays they like it, somedays they don't. Make sure you have a large variety of live and frozen food. Sparky's favorite was live Fiddler Crabs. Don't buy and octopus unless you can afford to feed him right, about $10 - $15 a week.
Don't bother trying to seal your tank, they will find an escape route and can even lift the glass top up. Sparky crawled out everynight, but just hungout on top of the tank.
Octopods will try to eat all mobile friends in your tank, but Sparky only played with small hermits, couldn't catch damsel fish or cleaner shrimp, was scared of my yellow tang and only knocked over corals when he was bored. They do not eat corals! They are very messy eaters and tend to move things which make them undesirable for a reef tank, but I kept mushrooms and star polyps with him.
Octopods love Escargo!
If you have any questions Topfish, post a message and I'll respond.
[ November 27, 2001: Message edited by: PiscesBlue ]
Octopods are as intelligent as a cat, they'll play games with you and know when they are doing something that you don't like.
They will spit water several feet out of the tank at you when you try to punish them.
They are VERY strong! Sparky could pick up any rock he could wrap his legs around, and his wingspan was just over 1ft.
Octopods are picky eaters. Somedays they like it, somedays they don't. Make sure you have a large variety of live and frozen food. Sparky's favorite was live Fiddler Crabs. Don't buy and octopus unless you can afford to feed him right, about $10 - $15 a week.
Don't bother trying to seal your tank, they will find an escape route and can even lift the glass top up. Sparky crawled out everynight, but just hungout on top of the tank.
Octopods will try to eat all mobile friends in your tank, but Sparky only played with small hermits, couldn't catch damsel fish or cleaner shrimp, was scared of my yellow tang and only knocked over corals when he was bored. They do not eat corals! They are very messy eaters and tend to move things which make them undesirable for a reef tank, but I kept mushrooms and star polyps with him.
Octopods love Escargo!
If you have any questions Topfish, post a message and I'll respond.
[ November 27, 2001: Message edited by: PiscesBlue ]
