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I finally got my first octopus (Caribbean 2 spot) yesterday and as of a few hours ago it has died. I'm going to try the to get one again but I'm wondering if I should do anything better this time.
Here's a list of what i did:
-got octopus (already had tank set up for year)
-set it in the water inside its bag for a while
-slowly integrated my own tank water into the bag
-realeased into the tank
(At this point it goes up to the around the top of the tank and just stays there)
(Has moved but is still at the top of the tank next morning)
(Return from school and it is on ground looking like it's about to die, I go into panic mode)
(Change water, salt, test tank, lots of stuff but octopus eventually dies)
I'm mainly just wondering how I should have set up the tank better because I probly should have been more prepared and don't a water hangs before I put in the octopus.
I was also wondering if anyone has any ideas of why it died, when I tested the water I did have a NH3 (nitrate) level of 20ppm if that did anything plus I had pretty low salinity that morning and added some more salt.
A side question is if you guys have any good sites to recommend we're I could buy a Caribbean 2 spot because my fish store took a year until they finnaly found this octopus.
Thanks for any help of any kind.
Here's a list of what i did:
-got octopus (already had tank set up for year)
-set it in the water inside its bag for a while
-slowly integrated my own tank water into the bag
-realeased into the tank
(At this point it goes up to the around the top of the tank and just stays there)
(Has moved but is still at the top of the tank next morning)
(Return from school and it is on ground looking like it's about to die, I go into panic mode)
(Change water, salt, test tank, lots of stuff but octopus eventually dies)
I'm mainly just wondering how I should have set up the tank better because I probly should have been more prepared and don't a water hangs before I put in the octopus.
I was also wondering if anyone has any ideas of why it died, when I tested the water I did have a NH3 (nitrate) level of 20ppm if that did anything plus I had pretty low salinity that morning and added some more salt.
A side question is if you guys have any good sites to recommend we're I could buy a Caribbean 2 spot because my fish store took a year until they finnaly found this octopus.
Thanks for any help of any kind.