Picked up an octopus from Reefscavengers.com about 10 days ago. It's an Atlantic tropical species. He's doing very well, eats frozen shrimp from the end of a stick. He found and ate all the hermits and snails (including the sand sifters) in the tank. Went to the beach yesterday and picked up a ton more snails, some mussels, a few hermits, and some small crabs. Coolest thing to see him attack the crabs, bummed I didn't get it on video. According to my kids he 'went all Ninja'!
I have him in my old 37 Oceanic (used to be my seahorse tank). I think he's locked up in there pretty good. Seems already to be growing. When he's hungry he's extremely active. This species does not seem to be particularly noturnal. He's pretty much out all the time. He's no longer frightened of much of anything around the tank.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSfRgLYB8g
A few photos:
Doc Oc with his red urchin. I picked this urchin up at the size of a pea when diving in the Caribbean many years ago.
Crappy photo, but shows the eye spots that are indicitive of this and the similar 'bimac' species:
Picked this clam up at the grocery store about a week ago. He's been working on it for a while, but just cannot seem to get it open. He's already polished off one of the mussels I brought back from the beach.
I have him in my old 37 Oceanic (used to be my seahorse tank). I think he's locked up in there pretty good. Seems already to be growing. When he's hungry he's extremely active. This species does not seem to be particularly noturnal. He's pretty much out all the time. He's no longer frightened of much of anything around the tank.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSfRgLYB8g
A few photos:
Doc Oc with his red urchin. I picked this urchin up at the size of a pea when diving in the Caribbean many years ago.
Crappy photo, but shows the eye spots that are indicitive of this and the similar 'bimac' species:
Picked this clam up at the grocery store about a week ago. He's been working on it for a while, but just cannot seem to get it open. He's already polished off one of the mussels I brought back from the beach.