Hello All,
I bought one of the dwarf O. mercatoris from KP Aquatics. He just came today so I don't have much to report. First of all, I am not happy with the Fedex guy. The box was prominently marked "Live Fish", "Careful Handling" and when they finally got here, almost an hour late, he was tossing the box between his hands. I told him to please be careful that there was a live animal in there and he replied, "ya I know".
Their packing was great with a small clear plastic water-filled bottle in a bag of water, enclosed in 2 more bags. Unfortunately, I did not know the bottle had a lot of holes in it for circulation and when I took it out, bang, water all over the place and the bottle almost "bled out". Haha. I acclimated the octopus to the tank but I can't figure out how to get him out of the bottle. I put a piece of shrimp in the bottle with him and he did settle on it so that is a good sign.
There were a couple of pretty big hermit crabs in there that I put in the 75 gallon tank just to make me feel better. Forget a picture, he is so little.
I thought about cutting the bottle in half but it is a pretty sturdy one and I don't want to traumatize him anymore then he probably already is.
I am still looking for an O. briareus though for the 75 gallon if anybody comes across one.
I bought one of the dwarf O. mercatoris from KP Aquatics. He just came today so I don't have much to report. First of all, I am not happy with the Fedex guy. The box was prominently marked "Live Fish", "Careful Handling" and when they finally got here, almost an hour late, he was tossing the box between his hands. I told him to please be careful that there was a live animal in there and he replied, "ya I know".
Their packing was great with a small clear plastic water-filled bottle in a bag of water, enclosed in 2 more bags. Unfortunately, I did not know the bottle had a lot of holes in it for circulation and when I took it out, bang, water all over the place and the bottle almost "bled out". Haha. I acclimated the octopus to the tank but I can't figure out how to get him out of the bottle. I put a piece of shrimp in the bottle with him and he did settle on it so that is a good sign.
There were a couple of pretty big hermit crabs in there that I put in the 75 gallon tank just to make me feel better. Forget a picture, he is so little.
I thought about cutting the bottle in half but it is a pretty sturdy one and I don't want to traumatize him anymore then he probably already is.
I am still looking for an O. briareus though for the 75 gallon if anybody comes across one.