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I have several questions. I'm brand new to owning an octopus, it's a briareus and I've had it for around a month now. It seems to be doing great and has been eating frozen krill, live ghost shrimp, and emerald crabs. However, within the past four days has decided to not eat at all. I'm really getting concerned. Nothing seems to interest him. I've even tried throwing some other food items in there, but nothing yet.
Then the people at the pet store start asking me questions like, what's your salinity? What's the temp. of your water? What kind of lightning do you have? My point is, everything was fine. Why now?
However, my salinity was .22 and they told me it should be .20. Is that correct? That's my first question. Second, What should the actual temp. be? They said colder water. Well, my water is 74 right now, is that cold enough? How do you make the water colder if need be, but what is the temp suppose to be?
Third, I don't know about the lighting. I have two strips, one with a 100% actenic light, the other is white light, usually running them together, because I have a carpet anenome. However, they said to kill the white light and they may help. So, as of two days ago, the while one is not on.
I know this is a lot, I just don't want to be doing something wrong. Can someone help???
Thanks
Matt
Then the people at the pet store start asking me questions like, what's your salinity? What's the temp. of your water? What kind of lightning do you have? My point is, everything was fine. Why now?
However, my salinity was .22 and they told me it should be .20. Is that correct? That's my first question. Second, What should the actual temp. be? They said colder water. Well, my water is 74 right now, is that cold enough? How do you make the water colder if need be, but what is the temp suppose to be?
Third, I don't know about the lighting. I have two strips, one with a 100% actenic light, the other is white light, usually running them together, because I have a carpet anenome. However, they said to kill the white light and they may help. So, as of two days ago, the while one is not on.
I know this is a lot, I just don't want to be doing something wrong. Can someone help???
Thanks
Matt