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Hi, uh...again
I figured if anyone could appreciate this information, everyone on this site would, so, here goes *large exhale*
I went to OctoPets after work yesterday. I met Jim, he's a very nice guy. He gave me a guided tour of all of OctoPets. I don't know where to begin and will probably forget something, so bare with me.
I was there to get an Octopus, as the tank is sufficiently mature and the other invertebrates (hermit crabs, shrimp, anemones, copepods, mini-stars, etc,) are doing fine and the ammonia, nitrite, etc, has been at 0 for awhile now. I didn't bring my camera, but I should have.
First, I saw the large cylindrical octopus holding tanks, as well as the long vertical shallow egg hatching tanks. It was very cool!
Jim also showed me the red ball and amphipods he's aqua culturing in separate large tanks. OctoPets is literally right on a saltwater lagoon, and, just past the main road, is the beach and ocean.
He then took me into a locked smaller room where there were clear acrylic tanks housing seahorses! He showed me babies just born (they were about the size of large brine shrimp!), they were so cute just cruising around. Then he showed me larger and larger ones in separate tanks until we got to the full size ones which are currently for sale. I've never seen baby seahorses, or seahorses that small in my life, it was amazing.
(Continued next post...)
I figured if anyone could appreciate this information, everyone on this site would, so, here goes *large exhale*

I went to OctoPets after work yesterday. I met Jim, he's a very nice guy. He gave me a guided tour of all of OctoPets. I don't know where to begin and will probably forget something, so bare with me.
I was there to get an Octopus, as the tank is sufficiently mature and the other invertebrates (hermit crabs, shrimp, anemones, copepods, mini-stars, etc,) are doing fine and the ammonia, nitrite, etc, has been at 0 for awhile now. I didn't bring my camera, but I should have.
First, I saw the large cylindrical octopus holding tanks, as well as the long vertical shallow egg hatching tanks. It was very cool!
Jim also showed me the red ball and amphipods he's aqua culturing in separate large tanks. OctoPets is literally right on a saltwater lagoon, and, just past the main road, is the beach and ocean.
He then took me into a locked smaller room where there were clear acrylic tanks housing seahorses! He showed me babies just born (they were about the size of large brine shrimp!), they were so cute just cruising around. Then he showed me larger and larger ones in separate tanks until we got to the full size ones which are currently for sale. I've never seen baby seahorses, or seahorses that small in my life, it was amazing.
(Continued next post...)