Pics of Octavius!

[Krakilin]

Finally got pics of him/her

Here is Octavius accepting and devouring a piece of shrimp:

And before anyone is like "you stole that name from another Tonmo member!" my friend and I made it up before I even saw that someone had named theirs that :P His full name is Octavius Aurellius Caesar. hehe.

I'm wondering about the reason why he's always chilling upside down. Maybe he doesn't like the substrate? I originally had a thick layer of crushed coral but later added a 10 pound bag of aragonite on top of it. Maybe even that is too coarse for him.

 

[DWhatley]

In the top and center pictures, what is the white mass on "his" right side?

 

[Brock Fluharty]

The shrimp that he is eating.

 

[drakanorn]

as far as i know octopuses like fine sandy substrate. Coarse substrate might irritate their sensitive skin. adorable octopus by the way ^-^

 

[Nancy]

That does look like pretty rough substrate and wouldn't be very comfortable - maybe you could cover it with very fine aragonite sand.

Young octos do sometimes hang upside down, but he should also be moving about on the sand.

Nancy