Meet Thomas

[Anonymous]

And You look mahvelous!

 

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised that no one has brought this up.
Consider also that Thomas may actually be Thomasina as octopus have a habit of coming in laden with fertile eggs. I had an O. joubini for about 6 weeks until it decided to lay her eggs in her lair and die. I just happened to notice the eggs by accident and was able to successfully raise quite a few of the hatchlings to maturity.

Regards,
David Mohr

While the sex point may be valid (I am not sure if Thomas has been sexed), this animal was aqua-cultured. Even so, it may end up laying eggs.

There really is no longer a need to buy wc octos.

 

[Anonymous]

The carbon will prevent the octopussy from killing itself with it's own ink...

While it may cause the tank to be temporarily cloudy, octopus "ink" is not toxic.

Greg

That's right, it's not "toxic". Do you want it in YOUR tank?
Hence, run carbon. I can give you a nice list of non-toxic things that I don't want in MY tanks.
Red slime, flatworms, high nitrates...octopus ink :mrgreen:


Here is a nice website for you to peruse, Black:

http://www.tonmo.com/cephcare/keepingce ... gcephs.php

I've had octopus ink my tanks many times with no ill effects. Just a few days ago I had one ink a 12 gallon nano tank. The cloud disappears naturally after a few minutes. You can add carbon to speed up the process but there are no toxicity issues, as you've previously implied. You can add the carbon AFTER the fact. In fact, fresh carbon is much better.

BTW "Unleashed," you seem to know a lot about keeping octopi. How many and what species have you kept?

Greg

I don't keep octopi at home, just at work. And I don't like being accused of "implying" things, since I did NOT, and I don't like your tone, either. Just because you have had no ill effects, doesn't mean it's a bad idea to run carbon. People also have high nitrates, and my opinion is to lower them. Do I need to keep high nitrates to be qualified to give such advice?

Your opinion can be added here. Mine already has. I don't need to justify myself to YOU.

Since you have kept these animals, why haven't you lent any useful comments? Instead of annoying those of us trying to be of some help, why don't you add something positive here?

Canadians :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

Unleased... you sound as I did long long ago... and arrogant little bastard unable to distinguish left from right. Learn from those more wise like Greg... it will do you good.

Confucius say:

"Those who accuse others of being unable to distinguish left from right should be able to distinguish boy from girl."

Matt....a girl can be a bastard...and you know Canadians don't always get married...they also eat their young. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Aren't octos pretty easy to sex? Is it the third right arm that's heterocotylized? I dunno if that's specific to the species I sexed or universal to all of them...

 

[Anonymous]

He's ignoring you, Manny :lol: And what are you doing up here in the bright light, did they kick you outta the Sump again? :twisted:

 

[wyw]

OK, looking at these pictures seems a lot like looking at the early ultrasound pictures of my son. I knew it was suppose to be a fetus but damn if I could figure out what was his head and what was his... well you get the idea.


Congratulations on Thomas! I always wanted an octopus tank.
Wendy

 

[Anonymous]

He's ignoring you, Manny :lol: And what are you doing up here in the bright light, did they kick you outta the Sump again? :twisted:

I followed you up here. :wink:


Actually, I was searching for a locked thread and I got lost. Now I have to jump in the overflow and wriggle past the filter fiber to slide down the drain hose back into my home.

Good day to you Madam

 

[Black96WS6]

OK, looking at these pictures seems a lot like looking at the early ultrasound pictures of my son. I knew it was suppose to be a fetus but damn if I could figure out what was his head and what was his... well you get the idea.


Congratulations on Thomas! I always wanted an octopus tank.
Wendy

Thanks! I have slightly better pics here:
http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68992

 

[Anonymous]

He's ignoring you, Manny :lol: And what are you doing up here in the bright light, did they kick you outta the Sump again? :twisted:

I followed you up here. :wink:


Actually, I was searching for a locked thread and I got lost. Now I have to jump in the overflow and wriggle past the filter fiber to slide down the drain hose back into my home.

Good day to you Madam

*snerklegigglemmmpf* You always manage to crack me up, manny By the way, there's a family of mutant fireworms living in the overflow pipes. Just thought I'd warn you before you get your ass stung right off on the way back down... 8) Happy trippin! :mrgreen: :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

oops, I wanted to ask Black if he would give us regular updates on his octopussy I think it would be wonderful if he could even plot his progress, feeding, tank specs, such like. Useful, actual info on keeping such a nice critter would be most appreciated by many

Maybe even write an article. Yeah, that would be cool! 8)

 

[Black96WS6]

oops, I wanted to ask Black if he would give us regular updates on his octopussy I think it would be wonderful if he could even plot his progress, feeding, tank specs, such like. Useful, actual info on keeping such a nice critter would be most appreciated by many

Maybe even write an article. Yeah, that would be cool! 8)

Thomas is doing fine. I took a few more shots tonight, this time with 2 hands and a couple with the macro setting on, these are probably the best shots yet:

Currently Thomas' diet consists of live food, fiddler crabs specifically.

 

[Anonymous]

Excellent.

Have you noticed him doing the bounce-up-and-down-thing when you drop a crab in? Hard to describe but imagine what it would look like if an octo went up and down on his tiptoes.

 

[Anonymous]

Hmm. It may give you better results to use a tripod if you want to take pics without your flash. Photography is tricky, and your octopus doesn't seem to want to sit still, so your shutter speed will need to be faster, which means you need more light or the pics will continue to be blurry.
Personally, I find taking pics of my tanks to be a frustrating enterprise. It usually ends up with me taking half an hour to shoot the same pic before I'm happy with it, and my pics still suck :evil: Specially if I need to use my flash, I have to take a bunch of pics until I find the exact angle that the flash doesn't reflect and ruin the shot. Unfortunately, your octopus won't stay in the same place long enough for you to do that. Unlike corals, which are blessedly easy to shoot by comparison.
Perhaps you could dig around the Photography Corner, and ask some questions there. We have some totally excellent people here.

By the way, I dislike most crab species, so anything that eats them is alright by me :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

Matt, not all animals respond to food the way YOU do :twisted:

Yer a special case.

:mrgreen:

 

[Anonymous]

Matt, not all animals respond to food the way YOU do :twisted:

Yer a special case.

:mrgreen:

:lol:

A lot of octos do it. The thought is that they are using parallax to judge distance to the prey since they don't have binocular vision. I'm just curious whether captive bred octos do it too.

 

[Black96WS6]

A lot of octos do it. The thought is that they are using parallax to judge distance to the prey since they don't have binocular vision. I'm just curious whether captive bred octos do it too.

I haven't seen him do that particular behavior yet. You should see how excited he gets though!

The surest way to spot an Octopus Lair - Look for the discarded crab remains!: