Blue ringed octopus - Page 4

crabbypatty · 06/11/2009, 12:22 AM

Right! no kidding....

shovel · 06/11/2009, 10:14 AM

I meant when the octopuss, is hunting the pepermint shrimp I Just put in the tank. paitently he stalks, sorta just lies in wait up on o rck or wall then whoosh. after I read what i wrote it confuse me

crabbypatty · 06/14/2009, 11:21 PM

got it. have you ever put a fish in their? I put a snail in , he has not eaten it yet, they say they will..i thought mine would of died by now. its gonna live for ever....

gem_nut85 · 06/17/2009, 04:37 AM

i would be more concerned that the bite of the blue ringed is painless! you never feel it until you are sick. With most venomus creatures you stabbed, punctured or bitten and it is very painful, the pain tells you to immediately get treatment, no pain you might delay to get help and end up dead or very sick sitting at home with no clue

crabbypatty · 06/28/2009, 12:16 AM

Rochester ,I may need your help. not too far away,I lost him! water ugly wondering if this baby power head suck him up,I doubt it. but water dirty? I have many open tanks around the octo tank averaging 50 to a 100 each. I cant stick my hand in their till i know. I'd be fine with it if he died. How will I know if he died until I find remains. Im screwed.

ps for last poster if your concerned about the bight means you are considering sticking your hand in their. you never ever stick your hand in their it could kill you period.

except for me I used to pet mine........

crabbypatty · 06/28/2009, 12:32 AM

Is their anyone that has or had a octopus, that can advise at all on this situation . have you seen or experienced an octo crawling to another tank. i dont care if you read about it, has anyone have any experience with this situation. Thanks ahead of time..

Thales · 06/28/2009, 06:53 AM

Power heads can suck up octos. Did you not have the tank covered?

Thales · 06/28/2009, 06:53 AM

Power heads can suck up octos. Did you not have the tank covered?

crabbypatty · 06/28/2009, 02:42 PM

found it your right tiny little power head got em, my tank was a complete jail except one hole in the center top I feed through, and I would cover that with tape with holes just in case I will post all my picks. soon..

Fearlessmoto · 07/01/2009, 11:44 AM

What kind of maniac would sell a blue ring octopus, i would have put it in a tank with a heavy cover and waited for it to die of old age, (which with most cephalapods doesnt take long anyway).
I dont understand how any respectable shop owner would risk a customers life with something like that or a stonefish.

shovel · 07/01/2009, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by crabbypatty
Is their anyone that has or had a octopus, that can advise at all on this situation . have you seen or experienced an octo crawling to another tank. i dont care if you read about it, has anyone have any experience with this situation. Thanks ahead of time..

not my self but it the first few pages of this thread, there is a link to a story about octopuss being known escape artists leaving one tank crawling across the floor up the stand into the other tank eating whatever is in there then returing to there "own" tank. As for not finding him I would put a carbon filter on his tank to clean it up then scoop with a net, most likely the power head got him!

shovel · 07/01/2009, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fearlessmoto
What kind of maniac would sell a blue ring octopus, i would have put it in a tank with a heavy cover and waited for it to die of old age, (which with most cephalapods doesnt take long anyway).
I dont understand how any respectable shop owner would risk a customers life with something like that or a stonefish.

Hmmmm. Simple I wanted one and he had one shipped in that week. What is disrespectable about selling a customer something that is leagal? How many people are killed by car wrecks a year? I don't see you on youre soap box in front of a car dealer ship!

crabbypatty · 07/06/2009, 09:44 PM

Give the customer what they want. you don't ever see them in a shop . the market dictates what to sell threw supply and demand.

No one is crazy just cause you don't understand. My friend bought a python for his kids, im like your nuts. but thats what they did. these shops are built on having animals no one could keep twenty years ago. Including saltwater animals. Many fish died cause we all did not have the education to raise 99 % of them . Now it is completely different due to the pioneers who bought and tried to raise them, which brought more trial and error to the industry. In turn gave us more survivor rate because of it.
But thats just me..

REEFBRONCO · 07/24/2009, 07:57 AM

Crustman · 07/25/2009, 05:36 PM

And I thought that Octopussy in James Bond was the only person that kept these. Silly me!

shovel · 07/26/2009, 06:32 PM

looks swwet

crabbypatty · 08/04/2009, 09:36 PM

awesome !

dwculp · 10/25/2009, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shovel

to harbor or sell any poisenous animal without proper documintation is illeagel fedral law. The reason being anti venom, and if said person who buys it decides to poisen people they can track the poisen back to the owner

Please provide a link or documentation for this federal law as I believe this is false. I used to keep snakes as a hobby, although I would never own a venomous snake and did not condone their keeping many other would keep very exotic and very venomous snakes. The laws varied by state and even by local municipality regarding venomous animals but there were no federal statutes.

Going strictly by your information Lion fish would qualify.

ginger7286 · 10/26/2009, 06:22 AM

okay, I feel sorry for the octopus. A creature this beautiful and deadly should never have been taken from the Ocean to begin with shame on the collector. Double shame on the LFS and triple shame on the purchaser. Why do some in this hobby have this need to perpetuate the collection of things that should never be collected? Hopefully someday, someway we will earn.

shovel · 10/26/2009, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwculp

Please provide a link or documentation for this federal law as I believe this is false. I used to keep snakes as a hobby, although I would never own a venomous snake and did not condone their keeping many other would keep very exotic and very venomous snakes. The laws varied by state and even by local municipality regarding venomous animals but there were no federal statutes.

Going strictly by your information Lion fish would qualify.

*EDIT*~dc

shovel · 10/26/2009, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ginger7286

okay, I feel sorry for the octopus. A creature this beautiful and deadly should never have been taken from the Ocean to begin with shame on the collector. Double shame on the LFS and triple shame on the purchaser. Why do some in this hobby have this need to perpetuate the collection of things that should never be collected? Hopefully someday, someway we will earn.

Just because it is dangerous? Please with the exception of coral everything in your tank is better left on the reef. why is that fish grow smaller in captivity because it is not the optium enviroment!

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dc · 10/26/2009, 08:35 PM

Shovel, you need to step away from this thread if you can't take conversation you don't agree with.

nanobuds · 11/04/2009, 06:30 PM

lol

MrMoses · 12/26/2009, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dc

Shovel, you need to step away from this thread if you can't take conversation you don't agree with.

Weird you say that, I didn't find that disrespectful at all.

MrMoses · 12/26/2009, 06:35 PM

I would get one of these after having experience with other octopus first.

06/11/2009, 12:22 AM	#76
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	blue killer Right! no kidding....

06/14/2009, 11:21 PM	#78
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	ooh got it. have you ever put a fish in their? I put a snail in , he has not eaten it yet, they say they will..i thought mine would of died by now. its gonna live for ever....

06/17/2009, 04:37 AM	#79
gem_nut85 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: DeForest, WI Posts: 20	i would be more concerned that the bite of the blue ringed is painless! you never feel it until you are sick. With most venomus creatures you stabbed, punctured or bitten and it is very painful, the pain tells you to immediately get treatment, no pain you might delay to get help and end up dead or very sick sitting at home with no clue __________________ I am who I am I'll Be Who I'll Be No one can change that No one but me Current Tank Info: well established 46 bow,and all the creature in it!

06/28/2009, 12:16 AM	#80
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	michigan man Rochester ,I may need your help. not too far away,I lost him! water ugly wondering if this baby power head suck him up,I doubt it. but water dirty? I have many open tanks around the octo tank averaging 50 to a 100 each. I cant stick my hand in their till i know. I'd be fine with it if he died. How will I know if he died until I find remains. Im screwed. ps for last poster if your concerned about the bight means you are considering sticking your hand in their. you never ever stick your hand in their it could kill you period. except for me I used to pet mine........

06/28/2009, 06:53 AM	#82
Thales Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: bay area Posts: 3,808	Power heads can suck up octos. Did you not have the tank covered? __________________ The reefer formally known as Lefty Ink is the way; the way is ink. Current Tank Info: 150 mixed reef with a 180 remote sump • 250 gallon fish breeding system • 200 gallon cephalopod breeding system • 212,000 gallon reef tank at work

06/11/2009, 10:14 AM	#77
shovel Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: rochector hills michigan Posts: 136	I meant when the octopuss, is hunting the pepermint shrimp I Just put in the tank. paitently he stalks, sorta just lies in wait up on o rck or wall then whoosh. after I read what i wrote it confuse me

06/28/2009, 12:32 AM	#81
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	Is their anyone that has or had a octopus, that can advise at all on this situation . have you seen or experienced an octo crawling to another tank. i dont care if you read about it, has anyone have any experience with this situation. Thanks ahead of time..

06/28/2009, 02:42 PM	#84
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	found it found it your right tiny little power head got em, my tank was a complete jail except one hole in the center top I feed through, and I would cover that with tape with holes just in case I will post all my picks. soon..

07/01/2009, 11:44 AM	#85
Fearlessmoto Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Saranac,NY Posts: 44	What kind of maniac would sell a blue ring octopus, i would have put it in a tank with a heavy cover and waited for it to die of old age, (which with most cephalapods doesnt take long anyway). I dont understand how any respectable shop owner would risk a customers life with something like that or a stonefish.

07/06/2009, 09:44 PM	#88
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	give them what they want Give the customer what they want. you don't ever see them in a shop . the market dictates what to sell threw supply and demand. No one is crazy just cause you don't understand. My friend bought a python for his kids, im like your nuts. but thats what they did. these shops are built on having animals no one could keep twenty years ago. Including saltwater animals. Many fish died cause we all did not have the education to raise 99 % of them . Now it is completely different due to the pioneers who bought and tried to raise them, which brought more trial and error to the industry. In turn gave us more survivor rate because of it. But thats just me..

07/24/2009, 07:57 AM	#89
REEFBRONCO Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 28	local store in NJ

07/25/2009, 05:36 PM	#90
Crustman Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Mobile, Alabama Posts: 941	And I thought that Octopussy in James Bond was the only person that kept these. Silly me! __________________ Tom Current Tank Info: 65 gallon reef with 8 T-5's, ATI Blue Plus, Blue Special, KZ Fiji Purple, Vertex IN 100, phosphate and carbon reactor Coralife Turbo Sea Pump

07/26/2009, 06:32 PM	#91
shovel Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: rochector hills michigan Posts: 136	looks swwet

08/04/2009, 09:36 PM	#92
crabbypatty Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Great Lake state Posts: 60	cool awesome !

10/26/2009, 06:22 AM	#94
ginger7286 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Lake Worth, Florida Posts: 728	blue ring okay, I feel sorry for the octopus. A creature this beautiful and deadly should never have been taken from the Ocean to begin with shame on the collector. Double shame on the LFS and triple shame on the purchaser. Why do some in this hobby have this need to perpetuate the collection of things that should never be collected? Hopefully someday, someway we will earn. __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out shouting "Holy crap...what a ride!" Current Tank Info: 125 Reef Tank, Precision Marine equipment with a live rock/sand filtration. 30G. Nano with 2 percs and a beautiful little Flaming Prawn Goby.

10/26/2009, 08:35 PM	#97
dc Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wyoming Posts: 44,684	Shovel, you need to step away from this thread if you can't take conversation you don't agree with. __________________ Debi ~60 Cube~ Why? Because I said so of course. -Sent via Tapatalk Smoke Signals-

11/04/2009, 06:30 PM	#98
nanobuds Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 93	lol __________________ -Ryan, the Teen Reefer

12/26/2009, 06:35 PM	#100
MrMoses Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Posts: 60	I would get one of these after having experience with other octopus first.