OCTOPUS!

[Beagle]

i bought this octopus right, and it has been in my tank for 2 weeks liao, but i never ever see it eat one leh. and it always hides in the rocks so i thought it died. found it recently and i think it shrank in size, and has this white rice shaped thing underneath it. got purple dot on the rice shape thing. what is it ah

[big_ben102000]

haha bro i think thats the beak, a.k.a the mouth.. makes sure u dont get bitten its quite painful. maybe u wanna try throwing some live feeder shrimps ? or some small crabs in. i think octopus feeds primarily on crabs in the wild ? i saw a documentry on it.. correct me if i am wrong.

i can go to the beach during low tides.. catch some crabs (flip some rocks over there are tonnes under them, but do flip the rocks back to the usual place after that) feeder shrimps are found in shallow pools.. they normally exist in a huge huge shoal... say easily 50 - 100 but u have to be pretty quick to catch them

hope this helps

cheers

[mansiz]

Which beach do you go to? I also want leh. Haha.

[Beagle]

nono, last time dont have one, now got a lot alot alot alot of them leh. looks like egg. zz.

[big_ben102000]

Which beach do you go to? I also want leh. Haha.

somwhere in the east ... haha go and explore lolz

[kueytoc]

nono, last time dont have one, now got a lot alot alot alot of them leh. looks like egg. zz.

Congrats it's OCTO's ROES...yum yum !

[w3ish3ng]

octo will die after laying eggs right?

[big_ben102000]

hows the oct ?

[ClOwNy_LoVeR]

bros octopus have pigments to allow them to change colours to fit their tank for camoflage, they also should be able to eat those prawns sold in markets by grabbing from you, you can try though.

cheers

[xersion]

octo will die after laying eggs right?

most of the octo will die after lying eggs.. mine also die after laying eggs..

[big_ben102000]

most of the octo will die after lying eggs.. mine also die after laying eggs..

wow did the eggs hatch ?

[xersion]

nope none at all..

[fishtalk1517]

so did the mother octo survived? I fed my octo with market prawn and times when i caught some pest crabs from the rocks, it goes into the tummy of my octo. they simply loved it Like wat a bro says, go to the beach and flip some rocks over and u could find abandance of craps for food for ur octo

[big_ben102000]

they look interesting leh.. but i heard from alot of people that they always claw out of the tank, so didnt get one.

[xersion]

they look interesting leh.. but i heard from alot of people that they always claw out of the tank, so didnt get one. 

ya my friend's octo crawl out of his tank.. but manage to catch it back be4 its dead.. octo loves crab.. but the octo that i had nv give me this problem of crawling out of tank.. it just only hide behind my overflow box.

[Beagle]

lol mine always hide under the rocks and nv come out, so i flipped all the rocks over, took it out and placed it into the sump. lol.

[RockyBoy]

Would be a lonely octo in the sump....

[kueytoc]

Oops, Octo is known to be an elusive & secretive creature. It's a well known fact that they hide in rocks & crevices most of their lifetime. So dun dump the poor stringly fella into ya sump juz becos' it is not an 'exhibitionist'.

[Sherman_Wong]

ya my friend's octo crawl out of his tank.. but manage to catch it back be4 its dead.. octo loves crab.. but the octo that i had nv give me this problem of crawling out of tank.. it just only hide behind my overflow box.

Bought an octopus 2 years back. Put it in my tank. Got a lot of rocks. Didn't really see much of it for days. 2 weeks later, got pungent smell from my tank. Check behind cabinet. Saw dried up body of octopus. BBQ 'yew he'!

[RockyBoy]

I still believe octo belong to the sea instead of the tank.