Tank Statuses - Week 4
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Day 23(Fri) Found and Fed 2 (Brood Tank: Sitting Bull, Puddles Tank: Sam)
Day 24(Sat) Found (2?) Fed 1 (Brood Tank: Sitting Bull and maybe LateForDinner)
- Sitting Bull was out and ready to eat but when I tried to feed her I touched her with the pipette and she inked and disappeared. Later I found one acting like LateForDinner (crawling the LR) and fed him but I did not see both at one time so I can't be sure. No sign of Sam but I only see him a couple of times a week and he has been feeding himself much of the time.
- Put CaptFish numbers to work
Day 25(Sun) Found(3?) Brood Tank One on the Left side, later One on the right.
- Brood Tank: Fed on each side, guessing the one on the right(where all longer living ones have all been until tonight) was LateForDinner and the one migrating to the left side is Sitting Bull. Left side octo definitely one I have been feeding and not a newbe but it could be the same one I fed on th right since I did not see two at one time.
- Puddles Tank: Found the new guy after very long search times. He was not sure what to do with the pipette but knew there was food attachedd. I had to feed twice before he got his shrimp but I am pretty sure he got fed. No sign of Sam.
Day 26(Mon) Found (4?) fed 2
- I still have not seen two at one time the brood tank. I fed LateForDinner and I think I saw and tried to feed a now afraid of the pipette Sitting Bull. I definitely saw an octo and it climbed the tank wall the way Sitting Bull tends to do but I could not find LateForDinner at the same time to be sure there are two.
- At around 11:00 PM, I found one in Puddles' tank but it ran away from the pipette. At about 5:30 AM I found and fed the sump sock octo (still not named). He is quite a bit larger than the others and identifiable if I see him fully in the open. He still has not gotten the pipette down well but eventually wrangled the shrimp out. Shortly after he disappeared with his prize, I saw Sam but when I came back with a new shrimp I could not locate him.
Day 27(Tue) found 1, fed 1 Brood tank, LateForDinner
- short on time tonight hopefully everyone will be hungry tomorrow
Day 28(Wed) found(4?) fed 3
- Hepzibah showed up in the sump tonight and took food twice. She looks small and I don't know if she will make it but she was doing her upside down trolling. It occured to me that this one may not be Pogo or Hepzibah but one of the ones that I had seen in the nets since the upside down behavior was not an attribute of either.
- Mama Cass (sump filter hatchling in Puddles tank) is looking promising. She is by far the largest and I noticed the pod population is dimishing. It appears her den is the crack between the overflow box and the glass. Still not good with the pipette but reached out and took the shrimp I squited in front of the opening.
- LateForDinner fed early but avoided the light later when I tried offering a second helping. Around 5:30 AM, I spotted one on the
left side of the tank, on the back wall. I went for food but it disappeared, later to be spotted briefly in the LR. LateForDinner is never on the walls when I find him on the right side. This is only the second spotting of a hatchling on the left. Either SittingBull has taken the left side or LateForDinner has differing behaviors depending on which side of the tank he is investigating. I also caught a glimps of what appeared to be an arm in one hole in the LR while I could see the left side hatchling
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Day 29(Thu) found (4) fed (5)
- LateForDinner and whoever is on the left side (I will call it SittingBull but really don't know) both ate. SittingBull had second helpings (about 5 hours apart) but is afraid of the pipette or being out in the flashlight (possibly because it attracks the shrimp). She will duck into the LR and wait for me to put the pipette into the hole and takes her meal.
- Hepizbah was waiting at the tank wall and did not move all night. She took three shrimp about 3 hours apart. I still don't have a lot of hope she will make it but I add food to the sump and into a breeder net that is below the surface.
- I never really saw Cassy but had a good idea she was between the overflow box and the glass. I found a crab that had died shedding its shell and did not have any odor so I put it near the opening (it would have been too large for the others I think) and it was hauled into the crevice. No sign of Sam and the way Cassy dragged in the softshelled crab, I fear he may have suffered a similar fate as she is easily twice the size of the largest of the other three. --- Never mind, I found Sam at about 5:00 AM and he took 2 table shrimp legs. He seems to have a white spot covering the entire top of his mantle though and I am not sure what that means. He scurried off with his prized and I offered a leg to the overflow wall that was accepted by the creature behind (even after the crab). I'm going to need more small crabs I think but if the others will take table shrimp legs, food will be much less of a problem