I got my second Octopus in the mail today, a "Caribbean Reef Octopus" from SaltWaterFish.com
Named him Bacon, for no real reason.
These have been identified from this supplier previously as O. Hummelincki but I'm not sure I can identify it definitively. I thought the species had obvious eye spots, which this one has not shown me, though everything else about it indicates this is still the case.
The second arm on the right is fairly recently severed just below the webbing. There is maybe a couple millimeters of whitish stringy regrowth but not much at all. Third arm on the right is coiled at all times with a noticeable ridge running the length of it, which means he is male.
Night and day personality difference between this guy and my first octopus (Grendel, Aculeatus). He is absolutely unafraid of me and seems oblivious to my presence. He was not in the tank for more than a minute before he began exploring and he is still doing so now (about 7 hours later). He doesn't move like the aculeatus either. Grendel moved slowly and deliberately and then pounced like lightning. This guy appears more clumbsy? He floats around without definitive direction, often changing paths. I've watched him climb the tank wall halfway and fall down about ten times in a row. He refused shrimp on a stick and waltzed right over a number of snails and hermits without interest.
One photo during acclimation:
Named him Bacon, for no real reason.
These have been identified from this supplier previously as O. Hummelincki but I'm not sure I can identify it definitively. I thought the species had obvious eye spots, which this one has not shown me, though everything else about it indicates this is still the case.
The second arm on the right is fairly recently severed just below the webbing. There is maybe a couple millimeters of whitish stringy regrowth but not much at all. Third arm on the right is coiled at all times with a noticeable ridge running the length of it, which means he is male.
Night and day personality difference between this guy and my first octopus (Grendel, Aculeatus). He is absolutely unafraid of me and seems oblivious to my presence. He was not in the tank for more than a minute before he began exploring and he is still doing so now (about 7 hours later). He doesn't move like the aculeatus either. Grendel moved slowly and deliberately and then pounced like lightning. This guy appears more clumbsy? He floats around without definitive direction, often changing paths. I've watched him climb the tank wall halfway and fall down about ten times in a row. He refused shrimp on a stick and waltzed right over a number of snails and hermits without interest.
One photo during acclimation: