Hello everybody !
I am totally new at everything about octopus and even keeping fish and water animals.
I am going to direct a short movie here in South Korea. To make it short, for the story, a child will bring an octopus from restaurant tank to the sea side. It will be their road trip to the sea side before he freed the octopus in the sea water.
So I knew about this intelligent animal and I was really interested since long time. We are going to shoot the movie at the end of August.
I plan to have an octopus at beginning of July to know more about this animal and to do everything properly for the sake of the octopus during the shooting of this movie.
So I need to know how to make it perfect for the octopus to be good and in good health. In korea they sell 2 kinds of octopus, this one 문어 - 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 which seems to be the Giant Pacific octopus and this one 낙지 - 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 which seems to be the octopus minor.
We will do it I guess with the Giant Pacific Octopus, which is better to shoot image and more intelligent and less scared from what I heard.
It's really hard to get information here to breed one of those octopuses since those octopuses are usually in some tanks from restaurant or market where they await to be eaten. I heard that they live not more than one week in those kind of overnumbered octopuses tanks.
I went to some pet fish and aquarium shop without getting much more of good informations.
Then I went to one of those shops and here is what the guy said (though he never sold any Octopus he seemed to know a bit about it). He said that it should be only one by tank (as I read also here), he said that it is possible to give some dry food (I remembered I read somewhere around here that it was not so much possible) and if we don't have a cooler he said to put a small fan in the water or even use a real fan in front of the water (but I guess the octopus will go out of the tank). He said if we don't have purificater if we change 2/3 of the water one time a week it will be okay. And just to add special salt for this.
So I am a bit scared because there is no way fro me that I do it wrong and something happens to the octopus.
I would like to know what you think about the way he proposes to keep the octopus.
To precise: I would like to get one (from the restaurant shop or fish market) and keep it for one month only maybe and then bring it back and freed in the sea water. And then get one more and this one will be used of the movie, and will be keep also one month. Or maybe I will take only one for 2 months... It depends how it grows fast. It should still be quite small and stay small. So those conditions of living will be for 2 months before to be freed back into the sea.
So all the advices I can get to prepare a good tank for the octopus would be really helpful.
We cannot buy the more expansive materials and tanks and we have to do it cheap but we have also to do it properly.
Thanks a lot
Joumils
I am totally new at everything about octopus and even keeping fish and water animals.
I am going to direct a short movie here in South Korea. To make it short, for the story, a child will bring an octopus from restaurant tank to the sea side. It will be their road trip to the sea side before he freed the octopus in the sea water.
So I knew about this intelligent animal and I was really interested since long time. We are going to shoot the movie at the end of August.
I plan to have an octopus at beginning of July to know more about this animal and to do everything properly for the sake of the octopus during the shooting of this movie.
So I need to know how to make it perfect for the octopus to be good and in good health. In korea they sell 2 kinds of octopus, this one 문어 - 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 which seems to be the Giant Pacific octopus and this one 낙지 - 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 which seems to be the octopus minor.
We will do it I guess with the Giant Pacific Octopus, which is better to shoot image and more intelligent and less scared from what I heard.
It's really hard to get information here to breed one of those octopuses since those octopuses are usually in some tanks from restaurant or market where they await to be eaten. I heard that they live not more than one week in those kind of overnumbered octopuses tanks.
I went to some pet fish and aquarium shop without getting much more of good informations.
Then I went to one of those shops and here is what the guy said (though he never sold any Octopus he seemed to know a bit about it). He said that it should be only one by tank (as I read also here), he said that it is possible to give some dry food (I remembered I read somewhere around here that it was not so much possible) and if we don't have a cooler he said to put a small fan in the water or even use a real fan in front of the water (but I guess the octopus will go out of the tank). He said if we don't have purificater if we change 2/3 of the water one time a week it will be okay. And just to add special salt for this.
So I am a bit scared because there is no way fro me that I do it wrong and something happens to the octopus.
I would like to know what you think about the way he proposes to keep the octopus.
To precise: I would like to get one (from the restaurant shop or fish market) and keep it for one month only maybe and then bring it back and freed in the sea water. And then get one more and this one will be used of the movie, and will be keep also one month. Or maybe I will take only one for 2 months... It depends how it grows fast. It should still be quite small and stay small. So those conditions of living will be for 2 months before to be freed back into the sea.
So all the advices I can get to prepare a good tank for the octopus would be really helpful.
We cannot buy the more expansive materials and tanks and we have to do it cheap but we have also to do it properly.
Thanks a lot
Joumils