new octopus!

[chevster]

hey everyone, been so lon since i posted a thread here!

anyways, i just bought an octopus at my LFS.. gr8 place! well anyways, they had an octopus for $30! so i directly bought it.

i placed it in my 45 gallon tank that was suppose to house a mantis shrimp, but since now this octopus amazed me so much i bought it. even b4, it was always between mantis shrimp or octupus, and ive done some research bout both..just looks like the octopus beat the shrimp...

now, after the acclimation process, ive let it out in my tank, and since then he hid under a rock... how long do you think will this take? i want him to come out and move around.. yes i know patience is a virtue, and im still learnin... anyways, i can;t w8 till he gets out and about in the tank...

P.S. i dont know what type of octopus it was, but by the looks of it, it doesn't look like the ones ive seen that are grey.. its red... looks like a giant octopus, but its still a baby..

heres a pic of an octopus i saw on the internet that looks like same, except for size...
http://k43.pbase.com/o6/34/564334/1/73420712.S1zS99bU.20061118octopus01bcomp.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?img....microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA_en&sa=N
by the looks of it, it looks like these red octopus, which are giant octopuses! i mean, Fish Stores don't sell giants! do they? lol..

 

[Koshmar]

I'm no ceph expert but I don't think color is a really good base to identify a species off of. We have a GPO at the aquarium I volunteer at and she changes color multiple times a day. Most of the time she is red but she will change to white, gray, and God knows what else. Then again you might know more about cephs than I so I'll shut my mouth.

 

[Animal Mother]

Very unlikely you would get E. doflieni. It's a very cold-water species and I don't know of any tropical fish dealers collecting fish on the NW coast. Could be O. rubescens, or O. mercatoris, or a number of others. Without pictures it's just a guessing game.

How small is it?

Without knowing what kind it is, there's no way to give you an estimate on how long it will take them to become active or even interactive. If it turns out to be a dwarf O. mercatoris (which are "baby" sized and usually red) you will most likely never see it out during the daylight hours and perhaps even with too much ambient light in the room. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be one of the larger mid-sized octos as it would need a larger tank. Most of the day active/interactive species come out within a couple of days, although they might hide from you for a couple of weeks before they stay out in plain sight when you're around.

Finding out where it came from would help if you can ask the LFS. Caribbean, Pacific, etc.

Pictures please!? If possible...

 

[chevster]

k ill try to get a picture tonight or tomorrow night or the weekends! it came out last night! so maybe it'll come back out tonight again...

uhh finals week! ill try my best to get that pic!

thnx for da reps