I was curious about this - how often do you feed your Octopus ( Daily -limited ) or free rain ( meaning dump all live creatures in for them to decide when it is time to eat)?
Also I see you mention frozen scallops as a substitute , what about shrimp or fish?
I live in the Central America so salt feeders might be very harder to come buy.
any ideas what else I could feed ( gold fish , crayfish and so on )?
I have seen where I can bulk clams form suppliers at a( reasonably price )but I saw the post mentions crabs ( are these hermits and fiddlers ), and can a person order( bulk ) fiddlers or hermits at a reasonable price -where?
Glad to see you covered the part about introducing your hand , was very curious about that ( so start early - is the best bet with this- can you hand feed them then - with say a gold fish )?
Again I am just trying to gain as much knowledge as possible , before acquiring one.
Thanks,
John

Hi John, Crayfish are accepted by most octo's although I've never tried them. My baby bimac eats live ghost shrimp, baby clams, small hermit crabs, astrea snails, and frozen raw shrimp. He's basically a little pig and eats about anything I'm putting in the tank lately. :lol: I'd be real careful feeding him any type of freshwater fish. You never know if they've been exposed to copper, which is deadly to octo's.

Spring

Most octopuses like crabs and shrimp. They need some live food - I used shore shrimp and fiddler crabs, and both of these can be mail ordered here in the US.

If you can get good quality fresh scallops, they would be good. Most octopuses learn to accept thawed frozen raw shrimp (never cooked) and even frozen fish, although not all like the fish.

They like crawfish, but these are freshwater, so could not be the only food. You also have to be careful of the claws and not overwhelm your octo with too big a crawfish.

Nancy

can you find fiddlers crabs for mail order in bulk at a reasonable priced?
Let say I order 50 - should I let the octopus have free rain of the crabs or feed them 3 times a week?
Thanks again

I and some others on this website have ordered from
http://www.aquaculturestore.com/index.html

I put a few in at a time a supplementary feeding. An order lasted a couple of weeks.

Nancy