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Ocho!

Phuntoon

By Phuntoon

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"Ocho" is a completely nocturnal Octopus, so every shot I've ever gotten was at night with a flash. After doing some extensive research, I found out I had an unidentified Octopus. The only other known photos are from Dr. Roy from UC Berkeley While diving at night on the Island of Moorea off Cooks Bay collecting Stomatopod larvae. His only sightings were of paralarva during the month of October and never saw an adult except for the paralarva that he reared to adulthood. His pictures were published in Norman's Cephalopods: A World Guide, on page 255. He said "Until now, my photos were the only record of it." So, here is one of the better shots I was able to get of Ocho........at 4:42am.

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mandelbloom

is it just me or does this look photshopped? His tentanle hangs over the side of the aquarium past the substrate and his eye appears to be drawn in. Never the less he does look cool :)

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Phuntoon

No photoshop, that would be cheating in my opinion for a photo contest. Ochos den was underneath the undergravel filter. He would squish his entire body through that little crack that the arm is still in....which is amazing to watch! The eye looks drawn in because of the flash. Octopus have eyes very similar to ours except their pupil moves in and out to focus instead of getting larger or smaller like ours. They prefer low light and Ocho wasn't used to the flash yet at this point.

 

(Thristan) It's not all that hard to take care of an octo if you know what you're doing. I'd say, if you can successfully maintain a healthy reef aquarium for an extended period of time you could take care of an octo. They require the same amount of time and care as a reef would....but they have completely different requirements.

 

For Ocho's thread (with lots of pics including more shots of him squishing down that small crack) go here:

 

http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8702

 

This website will give you all the info you need to take care of an octo or any other Cephalopod for that matter.

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toastii

WOAH!! working in the invert exhibit at the national zoo LOVE THIS SHOT!!

 

octos are one of my favs

looks kinda like a caribbean octo. but i dont really know much about identification, i will ask at the zoo!

oh also try not to flash at it so much the flash is super irritating to their eyes, their vision is better then ours, and we dont even like to have a camera flash in our eyes

 

does it have suckers on all 8 arms?

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