Safe octopus?

[bassman]

Octopus are NOT coral safe. It's actually the other way around. Corals can and will kill an octopus. I have one now that lives all alone aside from a peppermint shrimp (which he won't eat), a red serpent star and some chocolate chip starfish.
I am will be putting snails in the tank and if they get eaten oh well, I'll put in more LOL, There will be a need to keep the glass clean, however not too great a need as I don't run any lights on the octopus tank so there won't be much algae.

[Kabong]

Well technically that would be coral's aren't octopus safe

Seriously though what kind of corals did your Octo have a run in with?

[bassman]

None, I never subjected him to them. I did my homework first so mine has never come in contact with any.

Pretty much any "stinging" corals could harm or kill an octopus.

[kuatto]

I would love to have a setup for one but the only thing that makes me think twice is how short their lives are.

[Kabong]

Originally Posted by bassman

Pretty much any "stinging" corals could harm or kill an octopus.

Agreed, But you could say the same thing about a lot of fish.
My statement was meant to state that they will not eat corals.

Many Octo keepers do keep some corals in there tank.
Technically due to the low light enivro that's best suited to an Octo I doubt you could keep much other then say mushrooms and zoo's.
which I doubt would be any significant danger anyway.

[bassman]

Originally Posted by Kabong

Agreed, But you could say the same thing about a lot of fish.

Yes, however octopus tend to pull themselves around where as fish rarely touch anything when they move through the water.

I think we're both on the same page here.