Hello all!
An idea that I am toying with for our aquarium's Giant Pacific Octopus is to create an adjunct aquarium that would essentially be a playground/hunting grounds that the octopus could access at certain times throughout the day. It would access this by leaving the water and crawling over a small rocky shelf to get to the other tank.
My idea is that this would add a level of interaction for the GPO... like taking a dog to a dog park... and this allows husbandry to hide toys, live critters so that the octopus has to actually hunt around for them.
I an vetting this idea here before going to the husbandry staff with it so I have my ducks in a row (I am the exhibit designer).
Thoughts??
An idea that I am toying with for our aquarium's Giant Pacific Octopus is to create an adjunct aquarium that would essentially be a playground/hunting grounds that the octopus could access at certain times throughout the day. It would access this by leaving the water and crawling over a small rocky shelf to get to the other tank.
My idea is that this would add a level of interaction for the GPO... like taking a dog to a dog park... and this allows husbandry to hide toys, live critters so that the octopus has to actually hunt around for them.
I an vetting this idea here before going to the husbandry staff with it so I have my ducks in a row (I am the exhibit designer).
Thoughts??