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In my attempt to not get another specimen of wunderpus, I have ended up with an other wunderpus. Its actually ceph crazy town at my place because I have a metasepia, two other occys that I haven't ID yet, baby bandensis, and what appears to be S. latimanus eggs. Crazy town.
Here is the original thread:
"Zebra Mimic Octopus"
Someone had one, couldn't keep it anymore, and we worked out a deal for me to take it.
Ethical considerations for these animals have been discussed here:
Zebra Octopus For Sale In The Bay Area (a good thing?)
And I don't generally recommend keeping this species. Like I said, I wouldn't have taken this one or the last one, Medusa, except for odd circumstances. I am humbled that I continue to be in a position to accept these animals and that people think of me when they come up.
This is a small male wunderpus, that acclimated well this morning and ate a frozen bait shrimp this evening. I handed it to him via tweezers and he ate it up.
He is in a 30 gallon long, plumbed into the larger ceph system (approx 200 gallons) with a mix of substrates that seemed to encourage burrowing with other wunderpus - Carib Sea mineral mud and some fiji mud. No burrowing yet.
I will try to keep up on this journal, at least in writing, and I expect it to be very similar to the my original wunderpus journal ( Wonderpus ). I am kinda busy these days so pics and video may be in short supply. I have already taken photos of the mantle for wunderpix ( Wunderpix ).
This male is much smaller than Fontanelle, the mantle being only about an inch.
Some pics soon, any name suggestions?
Here is the original thread:
"Zebra Mimic Octopus"
Someone had one, couldn't keep it anymore, and we worked out a deal for me to take it.
Ethical considerations for these animals have been discussed here:
Zebra Octopus For Sale In The Bay Area (a good thing?)
And I don't generally recommend keeping this species. Like I said, I wouldn't have taken this one or the last one, Medusa, except for odd circumstances. I am humbled that I continue to be in a position to accept these animals and that people think of me when they come up.
This is a small male wunderpus, that acclimated well this morning and ate a frozen bait shrimp this evening. I handed it to him via tweezers and he ate it up.
He is in a 30 gallon long, plumbed into the larger ceph system (approx 200 gallons) with a mix of substrates that seemed to encourage burrowing with other wunderpus - Carib Sea mineral mud and some fiji mud. No burrowing yet.
I will try to keep up on this journal, at least in writing, and I expect it to be very similar to the my original wunderpus journal ( Wonderpus ). I am kinda busy these days so pics and video may be in short supply. I have already taken photos of the mantle for wunderpix ( Wunderpix ).
This male is much smaller than Fontanelle, the mantle being only about an inch.
Some pics soon, any name suggestions?