I’ve had this little fellow for just under a week, thanks to @Tomh - arrived in excellent heath if quite skeptical of me. He’s quite a ham and on day three decided to check me out (I definitely left it to him to make contact, of course) he is surprisingly strong even though I knew they are stronger than they look. I am 90% he wanted to try to eat my finger, but I still love him. I’ve seen him every day but definitely still panicked many many times that he somehow got out or died…. I was going to call him Sherlock (or Agatha if my working assumption he’s a boy based on what I think is a “specialized” arm turned out to be wrong), but he leaves crab carapaces and shells all over—in his wake, if you will—so Moriarty seemed more fitting.
I’ve got him in a Red Sea Reefer 250 right next to my 900xxl mixed reef, with a chiller, glass top, and mesh over return and overflow, among other bells and whistles. I set it up last year and waited very patiently to get him. My first octopus after about 4 years of reefing, and a lifetime of loving animals, and bothering everyone I know who eats octopus about how smart they are (octopuses, the people who eat them are idiots, obviously
)
I’ve got him in a Red Sea Reefer 250 right next to my 900xxl mixed reef, with a chiller, glass top, and mesh over return and overflow, among other bells and whistles. I set it up last year and waited very patiently to get him. My first octopus after about 4 years of reefing, and a lifetime of loving animals, and bothering everyone I know who eats octopus about how smart they are (octopuses, the people who eat them are idiots, obviously
)
)
sorry for your loss 
