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Does anyone here have an octopus? I just found this video on youtube and it is awesome. Makes me want one really bad. YouTube - My Octopus opening a container to get a crab!!
I think they should not be an animal to be had in a home aquarium. it would be really cool, but I just can't see them being happy and thriving to the fullest in a home aquarium.
Even in that aquarium (I have spent a lot of time there as a guest and volunteer), they can't keep the octopi alive longer than 6-9 months. Their lifespans are so short that by the time they are captured, QT'd, etc. they already have 4 or 5 tentacles in the grave. They really should remain in the oceans IMHO.
Wow, I had no idea! I was just being facecius lol I wonder why they don't do well in captivity? I mean, would they even explore half of that aquarium? It doesn't seem to be an issue of they don't like being in a closed environment?
It's not that they don't do well in captivity... it's that they just plain don't live very long, even in the wild. Granted... different species have different life spans, but I know that even the big monsters we have up here in the Pacific Northwest normally don't live more than 2-3 years even in the wild - and they're some of the largest ones ever recorded.