Octopus tank

[bassman]

Originally Posted by tranvictor

I was recently at Gold's, and they have a beautiful zebra octopus there. Made me salivate, I wanted to buy it on the spot, unfortunately I have no ideas how to design an octopus proof tank.

Anybody have any ideas on how to keep these little Houdinis in the water? Anybody tried to plumb up an overflow system for an octopus tank? If I tried to plumb up a tank to my existing system, how capable is the critter going to be at eating all my reef fishies?

If anybody has any ideas out there as to how to build the perfect octopus proof system let me know.

I just finished making a octopus tank. It has a sump and and sealed lid.

I would not recommend plumbing a octopus tank in with your existing tank. If your octopus were to ink it would be hazardous to your entire system.

I am pretty sure the octopus they have at Golds is a wonderpus or mimic, very hard to keep. Actually very, very hard to keep.

Most octopus will eat any and all fish kept in the same tank.

As for building a tank and plumbing it safely one option is to use nylon screen on the drain and return lines. You could also make a lid using screen as well but it would need to attach to the tank. Some people use velcro. I used nylon screws and wing nuts.