Here's a pic of him with the cleaner shrimp about to pounce on him. I'll post a couple more pics as I take more.

Very Cool! How can you afford to feed it cleaner shrimp? The ones here cost like 30 bucks a piece. :bugout:

There's a coral banded shrimp and skarlet cleaner shrimp that are his roommates. He doesn't seem interest in them at all. The CB shrimp I caught, the skarlet was given to me. I know they may get eaten, but so far (6 weeks) they seem okay with one another.

He eats live crab and jumbo frozen shrimp. The crab I catch once a week, it's the most fun to watch him eat, but a real pain to clean up the scraps. The shrimp I always put in a bubble gum tape container so he has to work (about 12 seconds) to get it.

I'm confused - you mean that your day octo didn't eat the cleaner shrimp? You said that the photo showed him about to pounce on the shrimp.

Nice octopus!

Nancy

maybe the cleaner shrimp pounced on the octo?

Nice octo!!! Maybe they play?

Carol

It'll be nice seeing the octo getting a clean by the shrimp one day :)

Great Pic!

I meant the cleaner was about to pounce on the octo. He seems to really want to clean the octo, but the feeling is definitely not mutual. Here's a picture of him reaching up for a snack.