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Show and Tell!!

What is the most sought after, unique, exotic, or vibrant fish you own and what challenges have you had with it??

Just show me your fish, I dont care what it is.

Mine:

I have a Abdopus Octopus. His name is Louie. He's about 7 inches right now ( with his legs spread).

When I first got him, after opening his baggie, he grabbed me and explored my fingers for about 1 min before letting go. Not shy at all! I got him acclimated and released him in his 90 gallon home. That guy took off and I didn't see him again. I thought he died. So I took off the lids and was like, welp, guess he died.

3 weeks later Im laying on my bed doing whatever on my phone late at night. I keep the aqaurium right next to my bedside. And here this little terd is, sitting out on the back of the aquarium, chillin'!

Shocked!!

Now he comes out every evening to greet me. He comes straight to the bedside wall to stare at me, then to the top of the tank for hugs. We are very close. He's my little baby. This pic is how I see him every night, mean mugging me..
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He only survived because I keep live foods in his tank. Emerald crabs, glass shrimp and lots of hermit crabs.

What do you have?
 
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Is it hard to keep an octopus? My stepson wants to use my old reefer 170 to house one but I haven’t really dug too deep into it.
No, not really. I guess it can depend in the breed. Ive never had trouble with mine. Luckily in that 3 weeks period, since I had lids off, he didn't try to escape.

They dont really enjoy the travel period and it can be very stressful. But he has done so well.

Mine is an Algae Octopus. They are supposed to be a diurnal octo, but he has been nocturnal.

If you do enough research, you will find a lot of great information to help. Ive had more success with him than fish tbh.
 

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Do they require special lights? Or will a regular reefled 90 do?
 

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Do they require special lights? Or will a regular reefled 90 do?

Any light will do.

The big thing about octopus is:

Most only live a year

They are escape artists.

Make sure to have a solid top as they can escape from any spacing that their beak can fit into.

They are also very smart so it’s nice to give them some toys.

The aquarium I used to work at put food in a jar and they would open it
 

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Any light will do.

The big thing about octopus is:

Most only live a year

They are escape artists.

Make sure to have a solid top as they can escape from any spacing that their beak can fit into.

They are also very smart so it’s nice to give them some toys.

The aquarium I used to work at put food in a jar and they would open it
Yea I got a lot to learn, I have a kraken lid for the reefer 170, but that has a small gap around the edge so that’s probably not good. Thanks for the knowledge!
 
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Yea I got a lot to learn, I have a kraken lid for the reefer 170, but that has a small gap around the edge so that’s probably not good. Thanks for the knowledge!
I made my lids with thick poly carbonate. Dr. Reef has a great video on it.
 

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