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Hi everyone,
I've now had a gorgeous little bimac, Andy, for about four months. She has been eating fine on frozen squid and the occassional clam or snail I throw in. My concern is that she seems to hide more now than she used to. She used to cling to the glass everyother day, which was her way of telling me she was hungry. Now she just hides in her cave and only seems to come out when I manually place the food next to her. Am I overfeeding her and she just knows she doesn't have to work for her food? I thought octopus were supposed to be voracious. She gets fed a piece of squid the size of her mantle every other day. The water parameters are near perfect, the NO3 or is it NO2, the second nitrogen in the cycle, is measurable at 0.3 ppm. Otherwise Ammonia is 0, pH is 8.0, S.G. is 1.025, phosphates are 0. Any suggestions?
I've now had a gorgeous little bimac, Andy, for about four months. She has been eating fine on frozen squid and the occassional clam or snail I throw in. My concern is that she seems to hide more now than she used to. She used to cling to the glass everyother day, which was her way of telling me she was hungry. Now she just hides in her cave and only seems to come out when I manually place the food next to her. Am I overfeeding her and she just knows she doesn't have to work for her food? I thought octopus were supposed to be voracious. She gets fed a piece of squid the size of her mantle every other day. The water parameters are near perfect, the NO3 or is it NO2, the second nitrogen in the cycle, is measurable at 0.3 ppm. Otherwise Ammonia is 0, pH is 8.0, S.G. is 1.025, phosphates are 0. Any suggestions?