Hi All -
Forgive me if there is a thread on this already. I couldn't find one. Brand new to this site and octopus keeping. I've got my first (a mimic) about two weeks ago. Been loving it. However, I can't seem to get him at all interested in eating non-live food. (Would like his diet to be a mix of live and frozen for all the obvious reasons.) I've been putting fiddler crabs (the sole source of his current diet) in an open jar to hope he starts associating that with food, but he still won't go near the krill or other things I've put in there. And afraid to leave the frozen in there too long because I don't want it to taint the water levels. Anyone have any tips on how to train the finicky little guys?
Thanks!
Forgive me if there is a thread on this already. I couldn't find one. Brand new to this site and octopus keeping. I've got my first (a mimic) about two weeks ago. Been loving it. However, I can't seem to get him at all interested in eating non-live food. (Would like his diet to be a mix of live and frozen for all the obvious reasons.) I've been putting fiddler crabs (the sole source of his current diet) in an open jar to hope he starts associating that with food, but he still won't go near the krill or other things I've put in there. And afraid to leave the frozen in there too long because I don't want it to taint the water levels. Anyone have any tips on how to train the finicky little guys?
Thanks!