Octi pie

[miked78231]

i want a bright neon colored octopus. can you keep these or is it difficult. i guess it really doesnt have to be neon colored.

[miked78231]

i want this guy: http://www.earlham.edu/~sheedjo/blue-ringedoctopus.htm

[Bill S]

Do a search on this - we just discussed how impossible they are to keep, and that their average life span is 6 months, and that they are insanely poisonous. When I was a TA at Rice, the lady who ran the lab had an octopus that had babies. Pretty cool.

[miked78231]

i figure that if i can keep a clown fish then i will be cable of keeping a blue ringed octopus. heh heh.

[miked78231]

i was just kidding on the "BRO", i was watching animal planet last night and they had the top 10 most venomus creatures and the BRO was number 4. can you keep an octopus in a reef tank?

[Bug_Power]

There is a mimic octo here in Corpus at Exotic Aquatics.....pretty cool, but yeah you need to have a tank with a freaking 100lb lid on it. Those suckers a very strong too. I'd say because of thier climbing and abilitity to get out..it would be hard to properly light the tank AND keep the octo from escaping

[Bill S]

Yes, they will crawl out. We had one in the LFS I worked in many years ago that we found dead, half way up a wall.

[Ram_Puppy]

You would need to anchor all your rocks down in the tank as well, there is no way you could keep an octo-reef tank. the octo would be re-arranging everything to IT's liking, not yours.