Octopus Update!!!

thanks for the concern baugherb!

 

So how is that octopus doing ? We would like some update pics !

 

I know that there probably wont be anyone here that can help me with this question but maybe the tangsters or omards can help me out, my octopus' eyes have turned completely white. At first i thought he may have been suffering blindness but when i reached my hand towards him he reacted so i dont think that is it, that almost make me more nervous though because i am concerned that he may have some type of infection, seeing as any copper based medications will kill him does anyone have any advice?

 

anybody?

 

Godbert, no experience with Octopus but two things.

I have had a few fish get cloudy cataracts, sometimes in both eyes soetime in one. I assume it us the same condition we get but there isn't anything to cure it oter then transplants(none on octopus I bet).

Secondly fish have at least two other ways of reacting to things around them, smell and turger(sp?) pressure. The later is how they react to changes in water pressure, the fish have something in the lateral lines that they can sense movement nearby... it is how they school and all move together. That's probably why he is reacting to you...or it just see's a shadow and is reacting to that because it can't see so well.

I don't know about the copper but they also don't have a very long life span even in the wild.

 

the octopus has officially moved on, their lifespan is about six months

 

Damn, that sucks.

 

thanks for the kind words

 

Sorry to hear about your Octopus! I am a little late as I don't know how I missed your thread.
Not that it matters much but the white on your octopus' eyes may have been due to excess nitrates and low oxygen levels. They, like many other messy and voracious eaters like Groupers, Moray eels and Lion fish are big watse factories and without pristine water and effective skimming will die in short time.
That stinks!!!
I lost a Yellow Tailed Stingray not to long ago, so I can understand what you are going through!

 

Thanks for the info! it may have been nitrate buildup seeing as it is damn near impossible to have a cleaning crew with them but i do not believe it was oxygen debt because I was running an airstone, congrats on being promoted to mod!