I just got back from octopets located in Carlsbad, CA.

Since I live less then 15 minutes away I choose to go there and save my new guy a lot of stress, OMG was that place so cool, its located on a ocean lagoon that I have been surfing by for all my life and never even knew about what was done there, there main cash crop is clams and mussels for resturants. Jim showed me all around there facility, thast place was so intresting and jim was so nice, answered every lil question my girlfriend and myself asked. He showed us all the hundreds of little cuttlefish they now stock, all the octopus, from a few different batches, the mothers that where tending there eggs, the seahorses the grow and the abalone, along with all the food things the raise. Then Jim thought of a cool little thing, so we went down and caught some wild crabs for my octopus and 1 for a little show, he put the crab in the cuttlefish tank and about 15 cuttles went in for the kill, was 1 of the coolest things i have ever seen.

Plus we got a awsome local deal, way below online cost. Along with getting to hand pic our guy.

-Travis :D :D :D

All of us landlocked are positively :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: with envy...way cool !

Yes, it's really nice to hand pick your little octopus!

Hope to visit Octopets someday, too. Everyone who's gone there has been very impressed. Jim says that there are bimacs in the lagoon and out there in the water, so it's a perfect place for an octo facility.

Nancy

tjohnson, I envy you :)
That really sounded like a cool experience 8)

Awesome experience!!! Soooo....is your new buddy home? Do we have a name?

:mrgreen:

Carol

So be sure to put your little guy on the Octo Database (see above) and we wecome photos and reports under Journals and Photos!

How old is your little bimac?

Nancy

Nancy, I'll get photos ASAP, he pretty shy at the moment, I am not sure what day he hatched, but I do know that group just younger then him, hatched on 06/13/04 so I'm guessing just over 8 weeks maybe. He's still small mantle right around 1 in. He was the largest in his range, out of about 10 we looked at. As for a name, we are accepting ideas, I am ultimately leaving it up to my girlfriend, but she really likes Ollie's name. But I don’t want to bite, so we need something else.

It was so cute to see the little octos that where less then 1in. total including their lil legs.