Tank Pic Second Shipment

[kp1917]

Thanks everyone for the support during my hellacious cycling process.

Here is the tank.


KP

 

[kp1917]

That was my first attempt at sending a picture. It looks kinda small, I'll retry later.

KP

 

[jeffbrig]

That's in a 50 gal tank, right? Is that a complete 50g package, or less?

 

[kp1917]

That's a 50 with one large rock in the octopus tank.

KP

 

[kp1917]

OK. here goes a larger image.

 

[kp1917]

Another

 

[Slatts]

Looks great KP, now its time to enjoy.

 

[Bax]

KP

Looks great. How's the octo doing? I have read they can be hard to keep and really hard to keep in the tank.

 

[kp1917]

The Octopus is not eating, but he's not been in for even a week yet. He has 5lbs of sand and a very nice rock (home). I have a feeder goldfish ready to go and I've thrown in 2 blue legg hermits in and he just hangs in his tank.

I moved the rock around last night and will have a much better picture tomorrow.

 

[hdtran]

Very nice job, Kyle! Beautiful shot!

Sad news, our hitchhiking octopus finally expired. It had stopped eating about 1 month ago, and floated up a couple of days ago. I was traveling, but my wife gave me the news. According to Richard & other various folks, octopi are pretty short-lived (1-2 year life span from egg to old age), so you never know how old the one you've got hitchhiking is.

I'm going to tear down the 5g nano now (home to 1 mantis, destined for the Great Toilet Bowl In The Sky. My wife is not at all squeamish about sending the bad crabs to the GTBITS).

If you can find a hitchhiking red emerald crab, toss it in the octopus tank. The octopus won't go for your goldfish. (Shouldn't feed freshwater fish to salwater animals anyway). You might try skewering a garbanzo-sized piece of raw shrimp or fish on a bamboo kabob skewer, and waving it in front of the octopus, in a dimly lit room. That's about the only way we could get our octopus to eat if he didn't hunt the emerald crabs.

 

[docklink]

Great pics, KP. Looking good. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the Octo.

Hy, sorry to hear about your Octo.

 

[kp1917]

Hy,

I think that I have two hitchiking porc. crabs. Good catch but I'll try the shrmp waving technique. I moved around rock in the big tank last week and was away this weekend. I have more pictures but I will have to send them from work this week.