Impulse Octo Buy Journal

[Jack_Lucas]

Hello all!

My name is Jack!

Been an aquarist for a long time. But after my divorce, i moved from florida to ny and left my 170 gallon and many other small aquariums behind...

for the past month ive been getting a small aquarium ready, no fish only 6 hermit crabs, some live sand, some live rock...

well today all that changed, I just received a baby octo! Its acclimating in the tank now, will probably only do a 45 min acclimation. Have the lights off...

any idea on the species?

 

[DWhatley]

I've had a couple of little ones find their way to the sump but in most tanks I have a guard that fits into the bulkhead that precludes all but hatchlings from making the trip. One tank has a potential overflow problem if I use a normal guard and I failed to remember to block it once with a new small octo. Fortunately, I found Yeti alive in the sump but with arm damage from an exposed pump. Any dark place attracks them and I have even used white night lights over this particular tank's overflow to make the area less interesting.

 

[Jack_Lucas]

Mike, maybe 1.5 cm - 2?

TINY!!

Dude, that sucks! Sorry to hear that. How small was the hole that he fit through?

 

[CaptFish]

They can fit through holes roughly the size of their eye. The beak is the actual determining factor but the eye is close enough in size that you can go by it..

Sorry for your loss