Hello,
So I am looking into the Octopuses for a while, but never really on the care or anything, and now I'm at the point where I am thinking of getting one I have signed up here.
My S/W experince is rather large. I've had many tanks before, and messed up countless times. My 'system' has been going for about 7 or 8 years now, although I've only owned it for 5. I bought a pre-setup tank from someone locally, and that was my crash course into the salt-water arena.
I have had tanks between 5g (Stomapod) up to 90g (reef), although for the most part I've kept smaller tanks, 20g / 12g. At one point I even had 12 Anenome's in my 12g. The 12g & 20g are still up, the 20g now has a large Stomapod, and the 20g has a clown fish. About a year ago I had a tank crash, (cat stepped on the power outlet while I was on vacation and my roommate didn't know wtf happened and didn't call me or anything.. (he's gone now), and the fish tanks were without light / heat for approx 5 days which killed all the anenome's, most corals, and a fish. Since then I got the tanks both back into good condition, but haven't really done anything since then. The tanks are connected, so the total water is 32g.
So I am considering getting an octopus (dwarf). I did read though that people said that an 18g was too small for an Octo, at least for a beginner. Is that because of the size of the tank is too small, or that the water volume isn't large enough? I would ideally like to put one int he 12g cube, as it is very secure and the octopus wouldn't be able to escape after a few 'mods' done to the tank, however that is rather small, and I can relocate the stomapod into the 12g if needed, although he won't be happy (both are acrylic don't worry.. ) The 20g has a nice skimmer attached, and the 12g has the 'surface skimmer' / very small wet / dry. I have a ton of live rock, approx 40lbs between the two tanks, and that's even after I gave away about 60lbs last year to local reefers.
So yeah I am just here to learn more and see what my options are.
Background about me: 24 years old. Always loved animals, I have a ton to be honest. I have a dog & cat. My gf / I have 5 tortoises, but they are located at her mothers house in a tortoise garden we (I) built. (2 Sulcatas & 3 Russians) And I also have a Veiled Chameleon. So I can never really leave the house as you can expect with all these animals so vacations are rare... (why go on vacation when you can bring the vacation to you? ) Work wise I work at NASA as a Robotic Engineer, so I am fairly technical with everything I do.
Wow this was long...
So I am looking into the Octopuses for a while, but never really on the care or anything, and now I'm at the point where I am thinking of getting one I have signed up here.
My S/W experince is rather large. I've had many tanks before, and messed up countless times. My 'system' has been going for about 7 or 8 years now, although I've only owned it for 5. I bought a pre-setup tank from someone locally, and that was my crash course into the salt-water arena.
I have had tanks between 5g (Stomapod) up to 90g (reef), although for the most part I've kept smaller tanks, 20g / 12g. At one point I even had 12 Anenome's in my 12g. The 12g & 20g are still up, the 20g now has a large Stomapod, and the 20g has a clown fish. About a year ago I had a tank crash, (cat stepped on the power outlet while I was on vacation and my roommate didn't know wtf happened and didn't call me or anything.. (he's gone now), and the fish tanks were without light / heat for approx 5 days which killed all the anenome's, most corals, and a fish. Since then I got the tanks both back into good condition, but haven't really done anything since then. The tanks are connected, so the total water is 32g.
So I am considering getting an octopus (dwarf). I did read though that people said that an 18g was too small for an Octo, at least for a beginner. Is that because of the size of the tank is too small, or that the water volume isn't large enough? I would ideally like to put one int he 12g cube, as it is very secure and the octopus wouldn't be able to escape after a few 'mods' done to the tank, however that is rather small, and I can relocate the stomapod into the 12g if needed, although he won't be happy (both are acrylic don't worry.. ) The 20g has a nice skimmer attached, and the 12g has the 'surface skimmer' / very small wet / dry. I have a ton of live rock, approx 40lbs between the two tanks, and that's even after I gave away about 60lbs last year to local reefers.
So yeah I am just here to learn more and see what my options are.
Background about me: 24 years old. Always loved animals, I have a ton to be honest. I have a dog & cat. My gf / I have 5 tortoises, but they are located at her mothers house in a tortoise garden we (I) built. (2 Sulcatas & 3 Russians) And I also have a Veiled Chameleon. So I can never really leave the house as you can expect with all these animals so vacations are rare... (why go on vacation when you can bring the vacation to you? ) Work wise I work at NASA as a Robotic Engineer, so I am fairly technical with everything I do.
Wow this was long...