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 Keeping an Octopus

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PostSubject: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 5:27 pm
I found this article about keeping octopi. It's a pretty good one! Sounds like a lot of work tho!

http://www.tonmo.com/cephcare/jspfk.php
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 5:33 pm
I'd love to get one, one day.
Thanks for the info.
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 5:44 pm
Wow, very interesting. For the expert salty i am sure....
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 6:34 pm
good fined alot of info just like cajun said very good for the expert salty
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 7:06 pm
Yeah you would have to be way experienced! And from what I hear they can escape or squeeze into your filters. They're crafty fishes!
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 7:59 pm
When I get them I keep them in gerbil balls. Keeps them from escaping. Not pretty in a show tank. Its for wholesale holding. Can excape from any size hole.
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 8:27 pm
fishman13218 wrote:
When I get them I keep them in gerbil balls. Keeps them from escaping. Not pretty in a show tank. Its for wholesale holding. Can excape from any size hole.

That is actually a really good idea.
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/21/2010, 8:39 pm
So has anyone had any luck keeping these verts?
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/29/2010, 12:15 pm
Zoos.... theyre just so much work for normal people!
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime1/29/2010, 12:39 pm
your tank has to be preety much sealed with no holes bigger then its beak. anywhole bigger then that and they can get out. id love to keep one but i suck
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PostSubject: Re: Keeping an Octopus   Keeping an Octopus Icon_minitime7/19/2011, 3:06 pm
You need a complete cover and a micro sock where your water flows from the tank to your filter, and there can be no powerheads in the tank and you need to check the sock alot. I know someone who has one and it gives him nothing but headaches. But it looks so dam cool. Oh and did I mention no fish or crabs. They are all fair game. Even his lion fish gets harrased
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