want to keep octo in 55g reef

[Kyle_RR]

Alright i have gotten over my idea of the 55g because the guy i was going to buy it from sold it the day before i was going to pick it up .....
But i was in luck. The other day my dad took a trip up to my great uncles house to go surf...He called me and told me he has a 70g tall RR glass tank that hes trying to get rid of. he told him that i wanted it , so next weekend hes going to bring it down to my house. I am buying 2x 250w HQI pendants to give light to the new addition to the house. I want to put an octo or two in it ,if i can.
I still want to get some more info on the aquascaping in the tank. for example(How much filtration...how much rock... large sand bed? Should i put macro algae in it? If so what kind? Also will the octo be ok under that intense of lighting.(2x 250w HQI).

Oh ya i was planning on getting ether a bimac or blue ring.... which one would be better in this tank? i know that blue rings come from australia and there more warm water.so if so if bought him would he be fine with zoos and shrooms/rics. im not saying crazu zoos and rics just a few scatterd around?


thanks for any info

Kyle

 

[jwalters103]

if you go with the blue ring and get bitten, you will have enough time to run to the phone to call 911 before you die----i would definately advise against it. Also, Ive put more than one octo in a tank and one of them will get eaten. If you go with that bright of light, you might not see him much when the lights are on. there is a specific octo from florida( cant remember the name off hand) that is sometimes called the day reff octo. It is my favorite as it is very active during the day and seems to have the best personality

 

[jwalters103]

day reef octo*

 

[Kyle_RR]

where could i find one?

 

[jwalters103]

I know beldts aquarium here in st. louis has them quite often and they do wholesale business too. I dont know if they will ship it to you, but if your lfs ever orders from them, or could be convinced to place an order through them, you might be able to get one that way. they refer to them as florida octopus. you can see a pic of one in sprung's invertabrates on page 131. The main physical difference that i have noted is that their heads are rounded instead of pointed

 

[DemonHunter]

LISTEN UP!

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Blue ringed octopus could be kept as a pet! The primary toxin from the blue-ringed octopus, maculotoxin, was determined to be in fact tetrodotoxin, the first instance of tetrodotoxin being identified as a venom component. Envenomation causes acute respiratory failure through paralysis of the respiratory musculature due to tetrodotoxin being a highly specific Na+ channel blocker in excitable tissues. This affects only the nerves of the voluntary muscles such as eyelids or lungs, leaving the involuntary muscles such as cardiac unaffected. If you get bitten by this VENOMOUS (not poisonous) animal, it would be painful, but not immediatlely life threatening (besides dying from the lack of air).

 

[moggyhill]

so you won't die immediately, your brain will die after 4 minutes without oxygen which you get from breathing. Hum, oh yea, you show me first what happens when you get bit and let me know so I can watch and let others know.

 

[frogman182]

i'm going to take the chace of being dosed in gas and flamed to death by admitting that i have kept a blue-ring before. actually i have had two. becides the fact that they will kill you, they do have other drawbacks. they are very shy, you usually only see them at night. the beautiful blue rings that they are famous for are only present when they are stressed. and stress= shorter life. not good when you only have about 6 months to live anyway. there are some dwarf octos out there and i would look into those instead.
a quick note on corals. there are very few LPS corals that can go with them, the sting can kill an octo. i have heard secondhand accounts of a frogspawn eating a baby octo.

 

[Brad524]

could some of you check my (octopus_?) post?