My aculeatus squirted me for the first time a couple of days ago.
He goes to the top of the tank where the access door is and sits and waits for thawed shrimp. As soon as I open the hatch, tentacles usually come out feeling around
I handed him his shrimp like usual, he grabbed it, tucked it under him, then held onto the edge and squirted me in the face, twice!
Then started slowly climbing back down the wall toward his favorite eating spot.
Only label you could really put on the behavior is MISCHIEF!
I say that cuz he held on to the top, stuck his syphon out and blasted me twice!
Eager is quite a character, with lots (sometimes TOO much) personality.
It's is amazingly intelligent! This isn't the first odd thing Eager has done. I read stories about Octopus leaving their aquariums only to return to them during night. So we placed Eagers aquarium w/out it's lid in the emptied jacuzzi, with a wire-mess cover. We placed live crab outside of Eagers aquarium and sure enough the next day we find crab bits in the jacuzzi AND Eagers aquarium. A friend in LA has a night-vision camera we'd like to use to view this.
I recommend if you haven't a cephalopod yet, that you begin researching and building a habitank fitting your desired octopus.
He goes to the top of the tank where the access door is and sits and waits for thawed shrimp. As soon as I open the hatch, tentacles usually come out feeling around
I handed him his shrimp like usual, he grabbed it, tucked it under him, then held onto the edge and squirted me in the face, twice!
Then started slowly climbing back down the wall toward his favorite eating spot.
Only label you could really put on the behavior is MISCHIEF!
I say that cuz he held on to the top, stuck his syphon out and blasted me twice!
Eager is quite a character, with lots (sometimes TOO much) personality.
It's is amazingly intelligent! This isn't the first odd thing Eager has done. I read stories about Octopus leaving their aquariums only to return to them during night. So we placed Eagers aquarium w/out it's lid in the emptied jacuzzi, with a wire-mess cover. We placed live crab outside of Eagers aquarium and sure enough the next day we find crab bits in the jacuzzi AND Eagers aquarium. A friend in LA has a night-vision camera we'd like to use to view this.
I recommend if you haven't a cephalopod yet, that you begin researching and building a habitank fitting your desired octopus.
