Nine Month Update
I have been trying to capture a photo of Onn to show the length of his arms but he won't hold still for the camera when he is spread out! Here are a couple of my attempts but they don't provide the information I was trying to capture. Each half of the tank is about 22" long and about 24" tall (below the hood about 23" to the water line). The connecting tubes are 4" long and we feel certain that he would not have to do much stretching to touch both ends while sitting in the tube if it ever occurred to him to try. His mantle remains on the small side but, oddly I have noticed it growing in the last month or so. I would expect this in a 10 month old female (he is somewhere between 10 and 11 months old having arrived quite young 9 months ago today). He has started to lose muscle in his arms but has only slowed slightly in his food intake. We did notice yesterday that he drilled a crab claw and liquified the contents instead of his usual method of breaking it at the joints. I have offered him skinned fresh salmon and small scallops this month and he ate both where he has occasionally rejected his normal shrimp so I will buy more of the softer food.
I did manage to get a night, red light video that shows the grace of these animals. The speed is actual.
I have been trying to capture a photo of Onn to show the length of his arms but he won't hold still for the camera when he is spread out! Here are a couple of my attempts but they don't provide the information I was trying to capture. Each half of the tank is about 22" long and about 24" tall (below the hood about 23" to the water line). The connecting tubes are 4" long and we feel certain that he would not have to do much stretching to touch both ends while sitting in the tube if it ever occurred to him to try. His mantle remains on the small side but, oddly I have noticed it growing in the last month or so. I would expect this in a 10 month old female (he is somewhere between 10 and 11 months old having arrived quite young 9 months ago today). He has started to lose muscle in his arms but has only slowed slightly in his food intake. We did notice yesterday that he drilled a crab claw and liquified the contents instead of his usual method of breaking it at the joints. I have offered him skinned fresh salmon and small scallops this month and he ate both where he has occasionally rejected his normal shrimp so I will buy more of the softer food.
I did manage to get a night, red light video that shows the grace of these animals. The speed is actual.