My haul from night collecting last night: Pipe fish, Octopus, Tubesnouts......

Video I took of some of the new stuff


Highlights were lots of Bay Pipefish and a perfectly sized juvenile Octopus. Theres a 50/50 chance its a baby giant pacific octopus, since theres only 2 species of octopus found up here.

Caught a couple pounds of little 1" -2" shrimp also, most of which became food but at least half of them found a good hiding spot or buried into the sand.

For size reference of the Octopus, thats a 2 liter bottle cap in with him where his dinner is hiding Other that him missing one leg he's in perfect health













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Nice collect ,how big are the pipes ? mine are 4 inch max ,and how you going to keep the septopus in his own area or own tank?

In picture 7 it looks like you got some tubesnouts (aulorhynchus flavidus) aswell.

Some is an understatement,lol. My school of them is near 20 or so.

snapperhead wrote:Nice collect ,how big are the pipes ? mine are 4 inch max ,and how you going to keep the septopus in his own area or own tank?

My largest are close to 12" my smallest are 3" or so.

The "septopus" ( lol, had to use that on my facebook page, it was too funny ) is in a tupperware right now. He's going into a temporay tank today while I work on a small display tank for him that will go in the house.

4PacNW wrote:In picture 7 it looks like you got some tubesnouts (aulorhynchus flavidus) aswell.

Yup sure did Caught at least 20+ of them. This picture is a top down shot of my school of Tubesnouts

Great finds! Thanks for the video.

What's the idea for the octopus display? Better yet, you should start a thread for that.

Will do when I start the real tank for him. For the time being I set up a 15 gallon ish acrylic tank on top of my display tank and used a power head from the lobster tank to make it a flow through system. I used some plastic mesh to cover the return, a small overflow strainer, and covered the top. Tossed a bunch of live shrimp in with him and ripped the pincers off of a small beach crab, so he should have plenty of food when he's ready to eat.

Also, most all of the pipe fish are taking frozen cyclop eeze already

Do you know the life span of your pipes ? Its great there settling in and taking food .

I hope you have a heavy lid on that 15gallon:D

From what I have read and seen online they live about 3 years or so.

The lid on the octopus tank is an oversized piece of acrylic, I'm going to cut it down to fit correctly and put some slide lock screws on it.

Finally saw my Red Pen Point Gunnel last night

Cool fish! How long is it?