Vee;109831 said:
my octopus died this morn, it chewed off one of its legs a few days ago and had been acting weirdly since, i was told they can repair their legs. is there anything i could have done? like melofix? any ideas much appreciated.
I don't thinks so, it may have been near the end anyway, they can do this when they are senescent. The other possibility is autophagy disease, there is NOTHING you can do about this (except euthanasia) the jury is still out but it seems that it may be caused by a prion (like mad cow disease) it is always fatal and extremely infectious to other cephs. Did your octo chew the arm off close to the body? This is a symptom of autophagy (if it didn't it was old age or some other reason) if this is the case you MUST thoroughly sterilise your tank and anything you use in it, get new substrate, everything else soak for about a fortnight in a 10% bleach solution, followed by a fortnight in freshwater, then a fortnight in fresh saltwater......only THEN can you begin to recycle your tank. You can't miss a step in this or shorten the time.......we tried with horrible consequences
Sorry, hope it wasn't autophagy
The Bobtail sounds like old age, this is how all ours went (when they didn't eat each other!) and there was no problem with our water......course it never hurts to check!
J