Hi everyone!
I would like to share with you the story of Itza, (English is not my first language, so I apologize in advance for my writing and grammar)
After a rocky start, you can read about that here:
Growing an Octopus maya (inexperienced green novice)
...I think I am ready to start a journal about this beautiful Octopus maya named Itza (means water wizard in Mayan language)
We choose Itza in the octopus farm in Sisal (Yucatán México) its a 40 minute drive so he was in a bag inside a bucket with no pump, he is one month old (we think he is a he, but its to early to be sure)
I did a drop by drop acclimate for two hours I guess and then I released it in the fish tank, he is quite bold because the other octos were inside a pvc elbow when we put them in the tank, Itza didn’t hide so my boyfriend just catch him in the net, he immediately tried to get out, I got so scared that I didn’t get that in video ...luckily he moved very fast otherwise Itza would have landed on the floor, instead barely landed on the tank after a long dive, he proceeded to check out all the tank and finally found a spot he liked under the slide, after that he moved to several spots until he found his favorite in a broken shell, this was his favorite spot for the first week
I would like to share with you the story of Itza, (English is not my first language, so I apologize in advance for my writing and grammar)
After a rocky start, you can read about that here:
Growing an Octopus maya (inexperienced green novice)
...I think I am ready to start a journal about this beautiful Octopus maya named Itza (means water wizard in Mayan language)
We choose Itza in the octopus farm in Sisal (Yucatán México) its a 40 minute drive so he was in a bag inside a bucket with no pump, he is one month old (we think he is a he, but its to early to be sure)
I did a drop by drop acclimate for two hours I guess and then I released it in the fish tank, he is quite bold because the other octos were inside a pvc elbow when we put them in the tank, Itza didn’t hide so my boyfriend just catch him in the net, he immediately tried to get out, I got so scared that I didn’t get that in video ...luckily he moved very fast otherwise Itza would have landed on the floor, instead barely landed on the tank after a long dive, he proceeded to check out all the tank and finally found a spot he liked under the slide, after that he moved to several spots until he found his favorite in a broken shell, this was his favorite spot for the first week