Some new updates- Lennon's doing really well as of late. He (even though I think he's a she) has been starting to come out a lot more often to play and eat. I'm starting to feed him a fiddler crab every 2 or 3 days of the feeding stick around 7 PM. Every time I do I place about 4 or 5 inches or so away from his den and wait for him to come get it. We've been starting to play tug-of-war with the stick, and any guests that come over are amazed. He's not as shy as he used to be. After tug-of-war, he usually goes back to his den for five minutes or so and eats his food, then he'll come back out for a little while. When he comes back out, he seems pretty cautious, but he also has been playing follow the hand (very cautiously). His color changing remains amazing, however I never really see too much texture change with this species (I'm just about positive he's O. luteus) His mantle changes shape from round to a football type shape.
Here's a newly developed problem- I've discovered some bristle worms in his tank. At first glance, I thought they were just his tentacles coming out under a piece of live rock because they're the same color. Then I fed him and he was in a different spot. I've had bristle worms before in a tank, and to get them out I just put some frozen mysid shrimp in pantyhose and the worms try to eat it and the bristles get stuck, it works pretty well. My question is, how harmful are bristle worms to octos? I'm assuming they can sting the octos, but how worried should I be?
Here's a newly developed problem- I've discovered some bristle worms in his tank. At first glance, I thought they were just his tentacles coming out under a piece of live rock because they're the same color. Then I fed him and he was in a different spot. I've had bristle worms before in a tank, and to get them out I just put some frozen mysid shrimp in pantyhose and the worms try to eat it and the bristles get stuck, it works pretty well. My question is, how harmful are bristle worms to octos? I'm assuming they can sting the octos, but how worried should I be?