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Octopus cyanea? If so, you are lucky, they are active during the day
Don't these get quite large though... ?
Octopus cyanea? If so, you are lucky, they are active during the day
I have seen dozens of photos/videos but have not yet seen one in person. With a big enough tank, I know I would love to keep one (yours may be too small but I believe Roy has kept them in lab tanks that may not be larger). They are quite the wanderer so I don't know how well the acclimate to aquariums. The Tentacles exhibit in Monterey (also see the Monterey O. cyanea blurb) has them on display and I am told they display quite well. Really beautiful animal. I wish our local aquarium would keep them instead of/in addition to the GPOs.
Here is one of @Nick Hopes clips for some nice action and Googling Cyanea will produce quite a bit of info.
@Neogonodactylus has a few posts about them that may be helpful:
Cyanea-Shooting for need to know facts.
and this one that talks about tank size:
Octopus Cyanea 55 gal???
and this one about the difficulty of keeping them:
O. Cyanea vs O. Rubescens
You said, was. Did it escape or just not acclimate? I am guessing the former as they are pretty hardy.
This may or may not sound "extreme" but one of the things I am very very interested in ATTEMPTING, is simply to try and lure the animal not necessarily ALL the way out of the tank but like 1 tentacle, to reach out and grab food from my hand.