All octopus are short lived, they grow breed and die after breeding. usually one year a very few live to be two years. I think there is one from the Arctic ocean that lives a few years but it lives so slow due to cold water that may be the factor. I am familiar with Octopus vulgarious. I catch them quite a bit here on the coast of NC, they can get to be a couple pounds in weight and are very strong animals. they are not very bad about inking and I've caught them on hook and line and they didn't ink. Transferring them to a tank from a bucket was just done by dumping them in the tank as soon as I got home from the ocean. no ink usually but if they did protean and skimmers and activated charcoal removed the ink fairly fast. It' been many years but they were the best wet pets i ever kept, they had big personalities, and did lots of strange and interesting things. But their short lives makes them kinda sad too, like getting a smart dog and then having it die in a few months. I haven't kept them in a long time.
