Calling all Tonmo octo keepers....
You need to be keeping an octo journal, so that you have a good record of your octo as it grows, its behavior, eating, problems, tank conditions, etc. This will help you in the future, may help others with their octopuses, and will help if problems develop. Besides, you'll forgot all those fun things your octo did, or get the dates mixed up if you don't keep a record.
This is what I did with Ollie:
I tried to write a paragraph a day online - but realistically, it was 4 or 5 times a week. This was a descripiton of what she was doing, what she was eating, her color changes, play, etc.
For the tank conditions, water changes and quick notes, I used a nice spiral bound journal with heavy blank pages. I wrote in the results of all tests, water changes and made notes of things to put online. Sometimes it was easier to write a paragraph there, so I did. There was room for sketches, too.
I also tried to take photos every week or so, but when she was doing something worth a pic - so I have over 100 photos. You've seen many of them.
I hope you all will all make some attempt to do this as well, even if it is in an a less-detailed form. Be sure to keep reporting on your octo here, too.
And a request - last year a couple of our sibling owners just stopped reporting in. We never knew what happened to their bimacs. For the sake of the present and future members of our Tonmo octo family, please keep reporting in, even if the news is sad.
So enjoy your octopuses and write down a line now and again!
Nancy
You need to be keeping an octo journal, so that you have a good record of your octo as it grows, its behavior, eating, problems, tank conditions, etc. This will help you in the future, may help others with their octopuses, and will help if problems develop. Besides, you'll forgot all those fun things your octo did, or get the dates mixed up if you don't keep a record.
This is what I did with Ollie:
I tried to write a paragraph a day online - but realistically, it was 4 or 5 times a week. This was a descripiton of what she was doing, what she was eating, her color changes, play, etc.
For the tank conditions, water changes and quick notes, I used a nice spiral bound journal with heavy blank pages. I wrote in the results of all tests, water changes and made notes of things to put online. Sometimes it was easier to write a paragraph there, so I did. There was room for sketches, too.
I also tried to take photos every week or so, but when she was doing something worth a pic - so I have over 100 photos. You've seen many of them.
I hope you all will all make some attempt to do this as well, even if it is in an a less-detailed form. Be sure to keep reporting on your octo here, too.
And a request - last year a couple of our sibling owners just stopped reporting in. We never knew what happened to their bimacs. For the sake of the present and future members of our Tonmo octo family, please keep reporting in, even if the news is sad.
So enjoy your octopuses and write down a line now and again!
Nancy