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I've never had issues with Nugward trying to escape, with one exception. I didn't know that other fish in the same aquarium would stress octopus out, and I caught glimpses of Nugward hanging upside down, outside of the water, on the ceiling of the quarantine box. This was a few hours after she arrived. It was at this point I found one of @Thereefdoc 's videos mentioning the fish-stress factor and I had the idea to glue blackout tint to the box (and slice holes in the plastic tint sheet for flow), and Nugward was fine after that. She arrived with one arm missing, but it was almost totally grown back one month later.How long is Nug by herself with you at work? Never tries escaping?
Oddly enough, I had this same thought. It was one of the reasons I had 2 paralarvae in the same container when trying to get them to feed. That and it increased the chances that I would at least see one feeding. Unfortunately, they don't seem keen on eating each other (or anything else) from what I've observed.I know eventually they would kill each other but not sure when that would be. Maybe try a few together and cannibalism might help for one to survive if they aren't eating the food provided.
No - octopuses are semelparous creatures, meaning that after they mate (males) or lay eggs (females), they die.* More specifically, they stop eating, don’t move much, and slowly waste away (amongst a few other symptoms). They produce hormones upon laying eggs that cause them to do these things, so to prevent them from wasting away (and caring for the eggs), you have to remove the gland (called the optic gland) that produces the hormones.**Do you think that she would have continued eating if immediately separated from the eggs? Would she would have died, of old age, regardless of eating or not?