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Won't be a good long-term diet. Good that it's eating though. Try Fiddler and Hermit crabs, or Shore Shrimp. You can order Fiddlers and Shore shrimp from this site... www.aquaculturestore.com They are very reasonably priced and include shipping in the item price. 10Fiddlers for $13 and some change, shrimp are a little more expensive. If the mantle size is about the size of a golf ball it will probably eat one Fiddler per day, maybe every other day. At this point I wouldn't worry about feeding it long-term because even with your filtration on that small tank, not being cycled, you have much bigger problems than diet issues.
Again, you can find several threads on this forum in which people who did not wait out the cycle period lost their octopus regardless of the advice given. This is your chance to do something different and everybody wins. Why not return the octopus and buy another one when you have a proper setup? There is no good excuse for not doing the right thing.
Again, you can find several threads on this forum in which people who did not wait out the cycle period lost their octopus regardless of the advice given. This is your chance to do something different and everybody wins. Why not return the octopus and buy another one when you have a proper setup? There is no good excuse for not doing the right thing.