new octo ( henry )

[monty]

This thread reports that chocolate chip starts cause more problems than others... Zombie had a chocolate chip starfish kill his octo, apparently.

 

[big fish]

heres the video.

plenty more to come now that i know how to do it.
i dont know how a star fish could kill an octo. lol. but ok

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[DWhatley]

Good video, Henry is definitely the same species as Octane.

How bid was the starfish? Because chocolate chips have a reputation of killing and eating fish (as do green serpents but I have learned there are two kinds and Mr. Green Jeans looses his arms regularly but doen't hurt anything) I have avoided them so I have no direct experience but if it attacked the Octopus, it may have been killed in self defense or killed as an expected preditor that was too small to do damage at its current size. You mention it was not eaten, was any part dismembered?

 

[big fish]

the star fish was about 2.5 inches across. one of his points was broken in half and hardly hanging on. i had noticed he had a few bite marks a couple days ago. i think henry just decided to finish him off. lol

 

[joefish84]

what size tank is that ... might want to start looking for a larger tank if its as small as i think it is

 

[big fish]

right now hes in a 12 gallon bio cube. i have a 55 gallon that i just set up and getting it ready for him.

 

[Animal Mother]

Maybe it was annoying Henry.

 

[SandV]

I looked at my octo (what I am pretty sure is a bimac) and he doesn't have that yellow ring around the blue

 

[Nancy]

O. bimaculatus has a yellow ring and perhaps O. hummelincki too.

Look at Cephbase and search for O. filosus (now O. hummelincki)

Here's the link to a Cephbase photo that shows O. filosus:

http://www.cephdev.utmb.edu/imgdb/i...D=&CephID=531&Location=&Keywords=&LowestTaxa=

 

[Animal Mother]

Observing my hummelincki's eyespots, the ring in the center was actually several orange/yellow dots making a circle. 2 on each side: top, bottom, right, left. These were not always prominent.

 

[slothboy77]

lol, just watched the video of him vs the giant shrimp, hes grown a lot since then! great looking octopus!