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Hello from Alaska! I'm a marine biologist working as an aquarium curator and educator at the visitor center at the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery, a non-profit facility in Juneau, Alaska. The aquariums provide visitors with a representative collection of local marine invertebrates and fish that I collect nearby. As such, having an octopus or two always attracts attention, but my husbandry experience (and marine biology experience, for that matter since I was trained in fisheries biology) has been basically on-the-job. I have one Giant Pacific Octopus (GPO) that I collected tidepooling last July that is currently laying eggs and I just collected another juvenile GPO about 4 cm total length. So one's coming and one's going.
I needed help to learn how to raise up the new juvenile and discovered your great site while looking for info on feeding little ones. Thanks to you I got some hopefully good ideas. I've collected an assortment of tiny to small clams and some amphipods to give to it. I welcome any advice you might have regarding their feeding and care. I have it housed in a small display aquarium with some artificial substrate and have introduced the clams and amphipods to it a few days ago. So far it doesn't look like it has taken anything. Any suggestions to introducing a new specimen to its food?
I look forward to getting acquainted with fellow cephalopod enthusiasts
I needed help to learn how to raise up the new juvenile and discovered your great site while looking for info on feeding little ones. Thanks to you I got some hopefully good ideas. I've collected an assortment of tiny to small clams and some amphipods to give to it. I welcome any advice you might have regarding their feeding and care. I have it housed in a small display aquarium with some artificial substrate and have introduced the clams and amphipods to it a few days ago. So far it doesn't look like it has taken anything. Any suggestions to introducing a new specimen to its food?
I look forward to getting acquainted with fellow cephalopod enthusiasts