Octopus for my Aquarium

From what i have heard octopus are mostly coldwater. I was wondering if they would do fine in a reef with anemones and gorgonians. My guess is they would. But what about the fish? I know next to nothing on octopus. I do know they are invertebrate eaters though and feeding them crabs wouldnt be a problem.

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Octopus will eat anything else in the tank. Period. If you want one then you really will need to get an octopus tank. One with a tight lid!

Getting the octo should be easy. Find your local pier, octopus often come up in crab traps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-67mBYW-Ewk

Watch this!

octopi live well with some aggresive fish. Mostly It will consume live fish

Would it be able to live with an Ornate Boxfish?

Thanks for the video Michael.

Seriously, don't put it with anything you will miss. I am thinking out an octopus tank of my own too. I hope to set it up in a side tank on the same water system. Perhaps that would work for you? I would populate the tank with little things that are easy to replace. I'm sure algaes and nems, really little stuff should be ok.

Yeah, having a separate side tank might work. Or maybe, since my fuge will basically be another tank, it could go in there.

I really want an octopus now too,

Look at this persons octo vids!

https://www.youtube.com/user/elai001#p/u/8/MfabzsuLBVs

Sick video!

that's real nice. I wish I had one

~ocean wrote:that's real nice. I wish I had one

ME too. I'm pretty sure that I will branch off my system to include an octopus tank!

I've been thinking about doing the same thing with my 50 gallon cube tank but I keep going back and forth that it may be to small Its 27x27x13ish, what do u guys think? To small for a single octupus? My brother said he was pulling small ones up at the docks in Newport, OR.

I think that is a great octopus tank!

AquaticEngineer wrote:Its 27x27x13ish, what do u guys think? To small for a single octupus?

For a small octopus those dimensions would seem fine.

I am really into this now. I'm working really hard on incorporating it into the tank.

There is a guy on nanoreef that keeps a temperate octopus tank, he has posted in several of my threads over there. You should look him up.

I believe you're talking about "C-Rad." He's actually a member over here but posts very infrequently. I really like his tank though.

Any news on the octopus?

Not as of now. I am working on a design in the tank where possibly I could seal off a section with a piece of glass and just have holes in it for circulation between both sides. Of course, it might be easier to do something like a nautilus.

I think that a I might do a 20 gal next to the main tank. I can have an overflow feed the "OCTOgon" (as I am calling it). Then the OCTOgon with have a return pump to either the main thank or the trickle filter. The least amount of parts. Now all I need is a octopus! lol I want to make remake my
PVC overflow anyway. I made it with 3/4 in tubing because it would interface well with the 1" vinyl line I had. I much more flow so I can open up my pump and REALLY start moving water!

The 3/4" in sounds great for running into the 20gal (or what ever).

Sounds plausible. My problem is I want more then just an Octopus in my tank. A short list would be something along the lines of...

2 Catalina Gobies
1-2 Navanax
1 Gunnel
3 Sculpins
1 Ornate Boxfish

Pufferfreak wrote:

2 Catalina Gobies
1-2 Navanax
1 Gunnel
3 Sculpins
1 Ornate Boxfish

Any octopus would LOVE a tank like that!

Just because it would eat everything . Which is my dilemma.

The Navanax might be ok.

But if you want an octopus you need an octo tank. Perhaps sea stars?

Maybe. Unfortunately I think I'll just have to seal part of the tank off, with only small holes to allow for circulation.

Quite a challenge there PF. I think I have an idea on how/if you can do it without seals but I will def have to put more thought into it.