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Its very nice to hear from so many people. what a friendly comunity this is. 
i will PM phil and colin, so see what UK advice they can offer me.
Last night while i was trying to sleep i was trying to think up interesting things for my octopus to do.
people out there who are lucky enough to own one
might want to try this.
{ for this you will need )
- a cube of cork or something octo friendly (polystirene ??)
- six small jars, lids need to be smaller than 1 face of the cube.
- octo friendly paint, 3 colours (this will need to match your peices card)
- octo friendly adheasive (100% sylycon ???)
- different colour card, 3 colours (this will need to match your paint)
{ now then lisen up )
- take the cube and cut out, on each face, an indentation that you can sink the lid into.
- fix the a lid into this hole on all six sides so that you can screw a jar into the lid.
- paint the inside of the lid or the bottom of the jar with paint, (use only 3 colors for the six faces and pain each face one color.)
- make 2 or 3 different stencils of your octs favorate food, these should be styalised a each quite different
- cut your A4 paper in 1/2
- do 1 stencil per 1/2, and do the same stencil on the 3 different colours of card, make sure you have some blank peices left
{ now here comes the fun )
les say you used yellow, red, and black paint and card
and your favorate octo foods are crab and shrimp
(this by the way asumes you octo can easy open jars)
all you do is assign a food to a color.
e.g.
shrimp = yellow
crab = red
just water = black
you fill all the jars with water and
add your shrimp to the 2 with yellow lids.
add your crab to the 2 with red lids and
add just water from the tank to the 2 with black lids.
place at the fornt to the tank so the octo can clearly see them
yellow card with a stencil of a shrimp
red card witha a stencil of a crab
black card with nothing on it.
introduce the feeding toy to the tank, keep doing this a number of weeks ? i really have no idea as i am just making this all up as i go along. if you get a good responce and find that your octo always gos for his favorate food first then try swapping the food aruond
eg
crab = black
shrimp= red
nothing = yellow
you will then need to change the cards a feeding time to relect this.
my theory is that you octopus should work out that the cards and colors are directly related to the food he can choose.
i hope i have explained this all ok. let me know what kind of responce people get back from their octos.
Adam
i will PM phil and colin, so see what UK advice they can offer me.Last night while i was trying to sleep i was trying to think up interesting things for my octopus to do.
people out there who are lucky enough to own one
might want to try this. { for this you will need )- a cube of cork or something octo friendly (polystirene ??)
- six small jars, lids need to be smaller than 1 face of the cube.
- octo friendly paint, 3 colours (this will need to match your peices card)
- octo friendly adheasive (100% sylycon ???)
- different colour card, 3 colours (this will need to match your paint)
{ now then lisen up )- take the cube and cut out, on each face, an indentation that you can sink the lid into.
- fix the a lid into this hole on all six sides so that you can screw a jar into the lid.
- paint the inside of the lid or the bottom of the jar with paint, (use only 3 colors for the six faces and pain each face one color.)
- make 2 or 3 different stencils of your octs favorate food, these should be styalised a each quite different
- cut your A4 paper in 1/2
- do 1 stencil per 1/2, and do the same stencil on the 3 different colours of card, make sure you have some blank peices left
{ now here comes the fun )les say you used yellow, red, and black paint and card
and your favorate octo foods are crab and shrimp
(this by the way asumes you octo can easy open jars)
all you do is assign a food to a color.
e.g.
shrimp = yellow
crab = red
just water = black
you fill all the jars with water and
add your shrimp to the 2 with yellow lids.
add your crab to the 2 with red lids and
add just water from the tank to the 2 with black lids.
place at the fornt to the tank so the octo can clearly see them
yellow card with a stencil of a shrimp
red card witha a stencil of a crab
black card with nothing on it.
introduce the feeding toy to the tank, keep doing this a number of weeks ? i really have no idea as i am just making this all up as i go along. if you get a good responce and find that your octo always gos for his favorate food first then try swapping the food aruond
eg
crab = black
shrimp= red
nothing = yellow
you will then need to change the cards a feeding time to relect this.
my theory is that you octopus should work out that the cards and colors are directly related to the food he can choose.
i hope i have explained this all ok. let me know what kind of responce people get back from their octos.
Adam
