Welp. the Bimac on display has been replaced, the new one has settled in nicely, and scince my birthday's on a Monday, we celebrated today, and I return with:
UPDATE #2!
Well, today I got up close and personal with all four of the Big-Eyes in the Aquaculture Lab, for it was cleaning time! Oh, and I found out the main maze-runner's name: Fabunacci, Nacho for short, one of the students named him, according to Andre: "she's a nutty one" :?. Anyway, Nacho got fed this morning, but scince there was no big crabs left, he had to deal with a little morsel who kept on rushing toward Nacho and trying to ward him off, which annoyed Nacho, especially scince the crab kept poking him with his legs on the count of it having no claws. Anyway, the octos were being pretty anal, being moved from their tanks into a big bowl, and being moved back, I'll go through each one seperatly.
1) Nacho was hard to get out of his tank, he almost slid out and onto the water table in between another octo's tank and the crab tank. Luckily, we pushed him back into his tank, and he slid into his plastic den, so we got him out easily, but he had two little crab snacks in the tank we had to retrieve and put in the bowl with him, Andre watched him while I cleaned the tank. As for getting him back in, we didn't have to resort to pouring all the water out, forcing him to crawl back, but we used the modern magic of the plastic ladel, and the human hand, but he did squirt up at us as we preformed this delicate operation, luckily, he missed.
2) The other larger octo had went in the bowl with his den, but came out seperately, he cooperated for the most part, but had to be ushered into his tank.
3) The smaller octos were another story, the inking, squirting, biting one turned out to be a female, and she looked harmless, small, pale, and somewhat transparent, she came into the bowl difficultly, she had to be chased around to get into her fake den, and when we got her in, she seemed like she was going to cooperate, but at lightning speed, she started squirting all over the place, so she had to have a black plastic pane put over her to calm her down, but she actually started escaping! She started to lift up the cover and slip a couple arms out, for a tiny thing with no bones, she was really, really, strong. When we got her back in, we had to empty the bowl, and push her into the tank, no matter what it was, she just had to do the opposite
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4) The last octo was a smaller one, and Andre said he was acting out the most this morning, but I think he was afraid of me, I watched him while Andre cleaned the tank this time, I wanted to give him and easy time, and the octo never came out of his den, we put the pane over him, and I took a look while Andre was gone, he was sticking out a little bit, but he stuck himself back in. Getting him back in only required moving his den.
Afterwards, Andre and I went out back and started building a new maze, taking panes of plastic and setting them up using silicon caulk. Remember kids, using a caulking gun may remind you of Squeez-E-Cheez, but don't eat it! Chef Tako of Deep Fried Live can teach you about safety in the kitchen in the Cephalofun section of Tonmo.com!
There you have it, Update number two, expect one every other week, and a maze run on the twenty-sixth.
Cheers!!!