Intro

[MadMaddie28]

Hey everyone,

I'm completely new to salt water tanks. I'm looking to set up an octopus tank but not sure where to start. I have a list of things that I picked out after lots of research but am not totally sure about set up or if I'm missing anything. Any tips welcomed.

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

Welcome!!! If this is your first tank i would avoid octopus.

 

[Kristopher Conlin]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!

I have seen one octopus tank in my 10 years in the hobby. They are definitely uncommon. Hopefully you get some good help on here!

 

[Sean Clark]

Welcome to the party.

Octopus probably is not the best choice for someone that is very seasoned in the hobby; let alone a new hobbyist.

Do some research. Best of luck.

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R and the salty world Maddie. Not an easy venture to start your salt water experience with octopus. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hello and welcome to the channel

 

[BluTang85]

Hello and welcome to reef2reef!

 

[SPS2020]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, I don’t know anything about an octopus, but I do enjoy calamari! Good luck.

 

[Wrassenaround]

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef! As far as an Octopus tank goes I haven't seen many of them. Heres a thread to someone else that was interested in getting one a few years ago.
Octopus Information

 

[MadMaddie28]

Welcome!!! If this is your first tank i would avoid octopus.

How come?

 

[bnord]

Welcome to the club Maddie and nice to have Montana members...

I dont have experience with Octopus, but the point is there are SO MANY great tank options with wonderful stands that you might want to consider other options (Water box, IM, etc...

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

How come?

They are very needy, short lived and i think for someone new to the hobby getting your feet wet in a more conventional way would be a better route. Save the octopus for down the road.

 

[ScubaFish802]

 

[ReefRondo]

 

[ying yang]

Hello and welcome to r2r,hope all is well .
No experience with octopus so no advice to give you other than what I could read on Google then tell you myself ha ha.

Me personally from the very little research ( happenned to just read bit here and there on octopus is all) I wouldn't want to keep an octopus and especially if never had saltwater tanks before as I would want to have experience on keeping the apparently simpler things first before an octopus and be confident I could get to grips with all the testing of parameters ,salinity,temp and all the basic stuff first.

But if you go along with it, I wish you best off luck and if you not sure on set up and stuff like that,more research probably needed,all I know is apparently messy eaters,need tight lid as their middle name basically houdini, don't live to long in captivity,some octopuses like the very small blue ringed are extremely poisonous, then there's I think its called Atlantic octopus that grows absolutely massive.
And if memory serves me correct,they got multiply brains ,one in each tentacle/arm or something like this

But won't tell you that you shouldn't keep one as I say no experience on keeping one and not done the relative research for myself etc.

But sure there's lots off articles online if look for them and maybe even a few threads on r2r if use search option etc

Anyway welcome and good luck ^_^

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board!

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !!! :cool:

 

[jmatt]

Welcome to the board!