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Arent octopi hard to keep in tanks because theyre good escape artists? pretty sure i remember reading that on a thread here when some bloke tried keeping 1 in a bucket. what happened to that octopus? if anyone knows
 
I've yet to see a credible timeline on envenomation. So much stems on body mass, hydration, age, health, and allergies. However, each blue-ring octo holds enough venom at one time to kill 26 adults within minutes of envenomation.

Thanks for the info Oddball...

Arent octopi hard to keep in tanks because theyre good escape artists? pretty sure i remember reading that on a thread here when some bloke tried keeping 1 in a bucket. what happened to that octopus? if anyone knows

They are, even the pacific giant octopus got out of his public aquarium setup once he worked out how to un-plug the stopper in his tank...



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I think they inject it with their bite, as for being a danger to humans, only if they pick one up or step on one by accident... Since i think they sometimes get trapped in small rock pools by the beaches etc...


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The octopus pictured is indeed a blue ring, but Octopus mercatoris does in fact exist and is harmless. I've had one. Before the Army started bouncing me all over the country, I kept cephs in my saltwater tank. Mercs need at least a 29 gallon to be successful. NO ceph species does well in confined spaces. They make 10x the waste of a fish the same size. Plus, they need a lot of things to keep them stimulated. They are every bit of a wet pet, in every sense of the word. My Abdopus aculeatus would beg for food and actually enjoyed being petted and playing with me when I would stick my hand in the tank. It's like having a dog that's stuck in a fish tank!

My merc was much more reclusive. Typical of small octopuses, he was STRICTLY nocturnal. All he really succeeded in doing was obliterating my cleanup crew when I wasn't looking. When I first got the merc, I kept him in a tupperware with a bunch of holes punched in it. Sure enough, he wasn't able to escape. Eventually I got tired of not being able to get a good look at him or to take good pictures of him, so I transferred him to a critter keeper. He escaped his first night in the CK. Sure enough, my cleanup crew got scarce in short order after that. Eventually he managed to escape the tank and I found a small piece of octojerky on my living room carpet.

Anyhoo, here's some pics of my mercatoris:

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^ extremely jealous... I would love to have one some day...


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