new wild bimac

[Dr. Idso]

Hello,

Here is picture of the "big wild one" cruising over the small captive bred. I have observed the wild one cruise directly over the captive bred. I have even see it "roll" the small one over to push it out of the way with its tentacle. But I have seen no "hunting-type" manuevars made towards it. It almost seems like a big and little sibling playing around with each other. OR perhaps the big one is tenderizing the small one ofr dinner?
Really though, it is playful, not hunting behavior like when it is stalking a crawdad.


Dr. Idso

 

[OctoMonkey]

Hey doc,
can you more specifically get a close shot of the false eys and a mantle shot??? just looking for details...

 

[Dr. Idso]

Hi Colin,

I tried to do a close-up photo using the manual focus. You can see the false eye spot just to the right of the siphon tube on the mantle. I can try to get a clearer photo later when the octos are swimming about. One is resting in a cave in one tank, and this one is resting in the corner, and I don't want to harrass him/her out of it.

Dr. Idso

 

[OctoMonkey]

hi Doc and Chep

Okay, I wasn't sure about it being a bimac just like ChepVegas and that pic settles me more on it. I was also thinking Octopus maya.....

As long as you were on the Carribean Sea side of Mexico? LOL

 

[cephalopoder]

Looks like a bimaculoides too me. It has the correct false eyespot and white spots on the body. All pics show very common color patterns for bimacs. You could have the larger bimaculatus, but I can not tell from the pics. Bimaculatus has longer arms, and a little different false eye spot.

 

[Dr. Idso]

Hello,

Another tip on the identification of these octopuses. An American friend of mine who has a house on the beach told me he found a large clam with 40 or 50 rice-sized eggs attached inside of it earlier this spring. He watched small babies pop out and swim away after placing the clam in a tide pool. So it is likely that this might be a large egg-laying species.

Here is another picture of the mantle and eyespot. I will post two more, one showing a stretching arm, and a close-up of some pigmentation near the suckers on the tentacle.

Dr. Idso

 

[Dr. Idso]

The "long arm of the law" reaching out to touch someone.

 

[Dr. Idso]

Close-up of pigmentation near suckers on tentacle, and one eye peeking out!

 

[hwynboy]

I do have to admit, that looks tasty. Have you ever eaten octopus? Chewy, but delicious.

Octopus or as we call it in Hawai'i "tako" is not chewy if prepared correctly. You have to Lomi (massage) it extensively with Hawaiian Salt before you prepare it. I would love to keep an octopus in my tank but I am afraid when my uncle comes to visit he will bring his spear and ku'i....lol.

I am still baffled why you would take this octopus from some guy trying to harvest it to eat? It's not like he is just killing the octopus he is actually using it for food. Would you go to a forest area and take a deer home if someone is trying to shoot it for food? This baffles me, a lot of locals in Hawaii go diving for octopus all the time, I used to go at LEAST 2 times a week. Man now I'm getting homesick. Anyway just my 2 cents remember different strokes for different folks.

 

[chepvegas]

Stop trolling the boards hwynboy. Just looking to pick a fight.

 

[hwynboy]

Stop trolling the boards hwynboy. Just looking to pick a fight.

Listen chepvegas, I do not pick fights I give my opinions. They come free and often. I do not give opinions on things I do not know of. I have seen many many octopuss in my time and my opinion of them are that they are a GREAT food source. My analogy was dead on. Please do not attempt to beguile me when you do not know anything about me.
k thanks.