Hi
@qiazopus; thanks for posting!
Lesions / sores / infections are fairly common. Sometimes they heal; sometimes they are lethal. Examples:
I hope this is an okay picture. Mr Kraken also is refusing to come out of his hidey hole lately
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I need some help with a reoccuring issue we are having with our GPOs. The last animal we had died shortly(within weeks) of getting this quarter sized sore that looked like something had desovled a small pit into its flesh. The animal didn't seem to be bothered by it. There were also small,dime...
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Hi, Im Eric Lum from hawaii. Is it possible that anemonie can sting the octopus? can this be fatal is some cases? im having trouble figuring out why my octopus isnt responding to anything the past two days. After reading a forum i thought about the hermit crab i had introduced to my 25gal tank...
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Of course, there is senescense, a lot of the Journals you read unfortunately end this way; often after the mother lays eggs. This can sometimes be mistaken for general stress, which also causes an octo to appear white or pale.
Sometimes reclusive octo behaviors are concerning, but they can just as often be octopuses just being octopuses.
Hi! I haven't really been on the forums in a very long time after my last octopus, Kim Jong Un, escaped and died. I got myself a new octopus and named him Karl Marx, and he have seemed to thrive a lot. I'm almost certain it's a male abdopus, possibly aculeatus, but not sure about that. Hes been...
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Lastly (and I don't mean to suggest this is a complete list!), there is autophagy, where an octo bites / eats its arms, this is usually coupled with stress:
Do Octopuses Commit Suicide?
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