Hello everyone.
I am sure that this forum will spark some controversy with those of you who like me, understand that all octopuses are very intelligent creatures. However when I found that my local hobby store had a dwarf octopus I couldn't help but jump at the opportunity to fill one of my spare running tanks that I had been saving as a sick tank. Currently "Squidward" the Algae Octopus from Indonesia and the Phillipines is doing well in his solo tank with lots of live rock to hide in and is fed three times a week a diet of peppermint shrimp and ghost shrimp from their own feeder tanks. He hasn't tried to escape the tank(though I have prepped it for this). He mostly hides in the live rock waiting for the shrimps to scuttle over him or for me to dangle them in front of one of his many hides. Sometimes he will play tug of war with me with my finger in which I have learned that though he is very small, he is strong enough to pull the live rock with him when you move your finger away(and he would fit in a marble if curled up). My reason for posting this controversial forum is to ask if any of you have experience with cephalopods. Have you kept octopi or cuttlefish and if so how did you keep their spirits ups? I understand that Squidward needs engagement every day or so to keep himself from getting bored thus depressed. If they get depressed then they will stop eating or attempt to escape.
I am sure that this forum will spark some controversy with those of you who like me, understand that all octopuses are very intelligent creatures. However when I found that my local hobby store had a dwarf octopus I couldn't help but jump at the opportunity to fill one of my spare running tanks that I had been saving as a sick tank. Currently "Squidward" the Algae Octopus from Indonesia and the Phillipines is doing well in his solo tank with lots of live rock to hide in and is fed three times a week a diet of peppermint shrimp and ghost shrimp from their own feeder tanks. He hasn't tried to escape the tank(though I have prepped it for this). He mostly hides in the live rock waiting for the shrimps to scuttle over him or for me to dangle them in front of one of his many hides. Sometimes he will play tug of war with me with my finger in which I have learned that though he is very small, he is strong enough to pull the live rock with him when you move your finger away(and he would fit in a marble if curled up). My reason for posting this controversial forum is to ask if any of you have experience with cephalopods. Have you kept octopi or cuttlefish and if so how did you keep their spirits ups? I understand that Squidward needs engagement every day or so to keep himself from getting bored thus depressed. If they get depressed then they will stop eating or attempt to escape.
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