Octopus, The Best Pet Cephalopod?
Vložit
- čas přidán 14. 05. 2021
- The octopus is without a doubt one of the most fascinating, intelligent and all around amazing animals on the planet. I would not even be surprised to find out that they aren't from this planet at all, they are like alien lifeforms. But is the octopus a good pet? And is the octopus the best pet cephalopod for you?
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium: thelivingplanet.com/, / thelivingplanet , / thelivingplanetaquarium , / lovelandlivingplanet
====
Live Rock: amzn.to/3qjO0Kh
Conditioner: amzn.to/3nz0ooQ
Salinity Tester: amzn.to/3oJ3Eyy
Instant Ocean Salt: amzn.to/2KgWX7U
Filter: amzn.to/2KIBCnt
Heater: amzn.to/3mwopeP
Frozen Seafood: amzn.to/3qlAzd0
Protein Skimmer: amzn.to/3iiW3V2
Aquarium: amzn.to/3apXOhh
Substrate: amzn.to/3nLG0RD
Test Kit: amzn.to/2LFtk0b
Gravel Vacuum, Water Change Kit: amzn.to/3h1bssk
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium: thelivingplanet.com/, / thelivingplanet , / thelivingplanetaquarium , / lovelandlivingplanet
====
"Variable ring patterns on mantles of the blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata" by Roy Caldwell under CC BY 2.5 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)" by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE under CC BY 2.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
====
Clint is a professional biologist and educator, but above all, Clint LOVES reptiles and he loves to share that love with everyone he meets. Whether you're lover or a hater of reptiles, you can't help but get excited with Clint!
We post a new video every Saturday morning! So stay tuned!
Be sure to SUBSCRIBE: czcams.com/users/clintsrepti...
====
PATREON: / clintsreptiles
MERCHANDISE: www.clintsreptiles.com/merch
SUPPORT Clint's Reptiles by shopping AMAZON here: www.amazon.com/shop/clintsrep...
Schedule a virtual ONE-ON-ONE with Clint! square.site/book/JYBMZXG2X02F...
====
FACEBOOK: / clintsreptilevideos
INSTAGRAM: / clintsreptiles
TWITTER: / clintsreptiles
WEBSITE: www.clintsreptiles.com/
DISCORD: / discord
====
To contact us for BUSINESS purposes: clintsreptiles+business@gmail.com
====
You guys are so RAD!
====
Fan mail? Yes Please!
Clint's Reptiles
770 East Main Street # 127
Lehi, UT 84043
If you would like to send a LIVE animal - FIRST: please send us an email to make sure we can take it in. clintsreptiles+LIVE@gmail.com
Also, I know that the plural of octopus is not octopus, but I didn't know that when we filmed this video. Oh well. Octopoxen. Octopeese. Octopice. It's one of those, right?
I don't think anyone has a good definitive statement of what the plural of octopus is. English is an irregular mess to begin with, and Octopods/octopi/octopobopolises is derived from two different languages who can't help us.
Octopods? Octopeds? Octopi....most correct Latin plural for this multiganglinous cephalopod.
Octopus is Greek, not Latin. The Greek plural would be octopodes.
Actually its occtopi.
Of course it's octopussy
My local aquarium had a similar thing happen with the octopus getting out and eating the other fish, and then going back. They thought there was a Bobbitt worm infestation for a long time until the night janitor caught the octopus in the middle of the crime.
They're so amazing!
caught red tentacled.
They do it in intertidal pools as well, so it isn’t so extraordinary as it initially seems.
What I find so astonishing is that they return to their tank on their own
@@zottelhuehs6375 it makes more sense knowing that they tend to find their own personal safe hidey hole they live in in the wild.
If octopuses lived longer, they'd rule the world
Fact!
It would be really interesting to see where evolution takes them next. Say they gained sapience like us, their cognitive biology is completely different to what mammals have
So would I.
@@tombick9311 "Gained" sapience? They already are sapient.
@@elifia ah I meant sentience. Always get those two mixed up 😅
Where I used to live in California, the Monterey Bay Aquarium had an issue with power shorting out in a whole section of the building. Turned out that the octopus hated the light above his enclosure and decided to spit water at it until it turned off. This occurred several times.
That's super smart
Oh my gosh seriously!? That’s hilarious!
I wonder if it came up with the idea on its own or if it learned from a nearby archerfish exhibit. I'm not sure which would be more impressive.
😆 🤣 😂
Lesson learned
They also like to drench their keepers in the same way 🤣
*clint sees an animal*
This might be the coolest thing on the entire planet!
*Sees otherworldly creature* This might be the best pet alien you could have
And he is right every single time
@@nothingtoseehere5678 I have never agreed with a comment more
@@nothingtoseehere5678except sea horses…
Are they the right pet for me? No.
Are they the right pet for someone else? Maybe.
Are they among the cutest, most amazing animals ever? You betcha!
Most definately
DAMN SKIPPPPPPPPPPY
Agree. I can't be trusted with an octopus. I would lose the octopus. They are probably smarter than I am.
Are they the right pet for me? Yes.
Do I have an enclosure? No.
Do I have space? No.
Will it live in my bed with me and I will love it forever? Yes
I always have a water bottle beside the bed. I'll get him/her one too. That should do right? I'm absolutely enamoured with them.
(I'm bedridden in case the in my bed thing seemed weird to anyone. I also really love octopi and want to snuggle one. I also don't mean anything weird or creepy by any of this. They're just so cute and have so much personality that I wanted it to come across that I don't care what I don't have, I want an octapus anyway and it can live on my love. That's as important as water to aquatic creatures, right?)
What amazes me about that octopus story isn't that it was breaking out to eat - it's that it was breaking out to eat, and then GOING BACK after. They weren't finding it in the other tank, because it was consistently returning to its original tank. Like it was totally chill with living in the enclosure, it just wanted a midnight snacc. That thing was going to a sushi restaurant and then walking home.
Octopuses are so smart that it's actually kind of scary.
it probably knew that its own enclosure was the best one for it, not trying to downplay the intelligence either, i think it just straight up knew that its own tank was tailor made for it with the perfect salinity/temperature etc. and so kept that in mind when it went on its midnight escapades
@@JubioHDXIt likely felt much safer in there too.
That seems to be the consensus from a lot of these comments and stories I've seen: the octopus doesn't hang around. It leaves its enclosure, enters another, EATS the inhabitants and then returns to its own. I wonder if it's a territorial thing, in the sense that it keeps going back to its own? Because nothing is stopping it from just staying in the other enclosures. I wonder what the reason is that they go back. Maybe not the right water conditions?
"Superintelligent muscular silly putty with a marble inside" is my new favorite term for an octopus.
"Modified beetle that they bite with" amazing
Right??
I do appreciate the way that Clint sees the world.
My boss at the zoo used to work at a small aquarium, and has told a story about their octopus. They had two problems happening at the same time:
1. Rock crabs, in the tank above the octopus, were disappearing.
2. The octopus wasn't eating.
They put up a video camera, and turna out everynight the octopus was escaping its tank, eating rock crabs, and returning to its own tank.
Fun fact: The Hawaiians believed that Octopi came from a previous world cycle because of how weird they are
I like that explanation for octopuses XD
Well, considering they evolved well before the Dinosaurs where a thing, they kinda are from a previous world cycle.
@@HilaryCrane Okto (eight) and pous (foot) are BOTH greek. The correct plural for octopus would be octopodes in greek and octopuses in english. "Octopi" is making a latin plural out of a greek word, which is kind of nonsensical.
That's just Ilúvatar got a cough while singing..
I think they got it right
They live such short lives but the amount of stimuli they get from touching essentially gives them hundreds of lifetimes worth of enrichment. And there is something beautiful about that.
Yup, there's also the idea that shorter lived creatures perceive time differently from us, goes by slower
"when it comes to handleability, we give humans a 2 out of 8."
These comments 😂
That’s generous.
Over sharing time! I had struggles with drug addictions in the past, and specifically my jam was psychedelics (LSD, DMT etc) my facination was always "seeing something not of this world" or "experiencing stuff not meant for a human to experience" - all lofty ideas brought on by severe toxication and dehydration from the drugs effect. BUT when I got sober, animals like the octopus and cuttlefish where one of the first "real" things I saw that could compete (and because of my limited creativity for things that are not real) even SURPASS what I had seen while under the influence. So in many ways, octopi and cuttlefish "saved me" by showing me that theres nothing LSD can show me that is more "trippy" than whats already alive on this earth! I should really get a cuttlefish tattoo to commemorate that!
Congratulations on your recovery! I wish you a healthy and joyful life 😊
@@katelillo1932 Thanks! Life is better sober 😁
🙌🏻
One Philippe K. Dick Seal Of Approval for you !
Here two years later to see if you got that rad cuddlefish tattoo
If I had to own an octopus I’d just be worried about waking up to find it’s transitioned to land, marshalled a cephalopod uprising, and is on the verge of cracking the *theory of everything...*
All in one night
Their tank must be the pet equivalent of a maximum security prison
There's an episode of the new Twilight Zone about this in the second season, if you wann watch this play out.
I heard another octopus escapes-to-eat-its-neighbours story; the octopus memorised the security patrols and timed it's eat out escapes so it wouldn't get caught. It was only confirmed to be responsible for the disappearances after they suspected the octopus might be involved somehow and so installed cameras to watch it in the act. 😂
That's not just an escape; that's a heist.
I want the rat video an almost absurd amount. I have a bunch of rats and they're such good pets. Just make sure to emphasize that they should never be housed alone. That's a bit like keeping a person in solitary confinement in terms of negative psychological effects on the animal.
I won't forget to talk about that!
The only downside to keeping rats is that they don’t live particularly long 😞 they’re wonderful, intelligent and affectionate critters.
@@katelillo1932 Yeah, my ex wife and I used to keep rats. I loved them so much, but after a couple generations it just got too heartbreaking. They always seem to die just as they start feeling like part of the family.
@@jasonblalock4429 yeah. For my part I instantly bond with a tiny little baby rat as soon as I look in their eyes. But the life span is the big downside with rats. It's the kind of pet where you need to be comfortable with mortality being common even if you're an amazing keeper. Three years just isn't very long. A big reason I'm really excited by emerald tree skinks is just they have a really rat like personality but with the life expectancy of a skink.
It really is also just worth saying though, rats love people more than almost any other animal I've ever interacted with if they're socialized. They're the only animal I've ever had that not only begs to hang out on your shoulder all the time and when you're done and put them back, tries to grab your hand and drag you back into the cage with them.
"My Octopus Teacher" is the nature film that made me really appreciate them.
Great film! Really shows how closely they can interact with humans.
I cried so much 😭
I kept my brothers pet octopus while he went on vacation. Now my piano is slimy and my Netflix password has changed!!
I met a tiny orangeish octopus at the beach as a child. A boy ,with the sweetest smile (my age) ran up to me with the octopus in his hands. I will never forget how tiny and perfect the octopus was. It wrapped its tiny arms around my finger. I remember it like it just happened. Octopus are so awesome!
Absolutely do a video on rats!!! Octopuses have always been fascinating, but I’ve never really thought it would be a good idea to try to keep one as a pet. Pretty sure I’d find it outside its enclosure building a spacecraft to fly home and that would really just be too much.
This comment killed me, so funny lol
Give it enough enrichment to keep it occupied and it'll skip the spaceship.
I bet a video titled "Do Octopuses Hold the Secret to Antigravity?" would get 10 million views.
The story that the octopus escaping to eat things in other tanks is incredible for many reasons, but the most amazing thing to me is that it would go back to its tank. Logically, you’d think it would stay in the tank where it found food, but it went back anyways. Why? Did it know it would get “in trouble” and want to avoid arousing suspicion? It seems that might honestly be the case, as it would wait until night time to go on these adventures. Honestly just unbelievable.
One special thing about an octapus IQ is that theyre smart enough to understand how and what other animals perceive things. Lol they observed no one was around at night, they know that if something isnt present at the moment it wont know what happened in its absence. They understand how animals learn and how to trick them etc. They dont do all that at random.
I wonder whether there’s a connection with being such an extremely specialized stealth predator, and the high degree of problem solving and social awareness.
A video about huntsman spiders would be cool. underrated spider
I'm down!
I just got a huntsman spider from the Utah reptile expo a couple weekends ago. Im a spider guy personally. I love the huntsman. It is super cool.
spiderbros
Also maybe a golden orb Weaver spider or a Sydney funnel web spider
I just watched Petko's video about rehousing 3 of his Huntsmen and omg can those critters run fast! Actually, one of them got loose and immediately disappeared while he was making the video. So it turned into this huge ordeal of him trying to catch the silly thing and her doing her best not to be caught, lol. So if anybody is interested in tarantulas and spiders his channel is called The Dark Den and it is excellent viewing.
The 1 dislike is a jealous cuddlefish.
He just wants to cuddle
So close to getting that heart maybe next time
that cuddlefish must be
a jellyfish
I find it very sad that they have such short lifespans. They’re so intelligent and beautiful, charming and peaceful under the best circumstances. They deserve to live longer.
Can we always admire the escape-ability of the octopus. I’ve heard so many stories of non aquariums or even aquariums having an octopus escape and get real far
Nobody:
Clint: Would a Kraken be the best pet for you?
This aren't kraken, it's the giant & colossal squids that are the krakens.
upfront costs are a zero out of 5, you need a monsterous tank that will Absolutely Not release the Kraken
How about a pet Cthulhu?
How about a pet moth man
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 all you have to do is scratch his belly,Cthulhu loves that.
The truly impressive part of that lab story is that the octopus was smart enough to go back to it's own tank. It indicates some understanding that the humans won't be happy if they figure it out.
I laughed so hard when he said “we need to keep them occupied!”
It's true. Like all intelligent animals, they get bored easily (I hear this is also a big issue for pet parrots).
@@erickpoorbaugh6728 I meant it as pun with the words octopus and occupied! But it is true that parrots get stressed out without a friend and/or entertainment which I believe leads to the plucking of their own feathers although I am definitely not an expert!
“Did you see that sea turtle?” Clint always has the best energy in his videos! 😆
I had an octopus once, and I would give a higher score in handleability. Octopuses don't use their beaks, like, ever. Unless you really are scaring them, and completely and repeatedly ignore the very obvious signals they send about them being annoyed, being bitten is basically impossible. I myself was "tasted" many times by my octopus, but he only used his radula to do that. He basically licked me. Ok, well, the tongue of an octopus is abrasive, so he was actively trying to eat my hand, and it did scratch my skin a little bit... but a cat playing with your fingers can do much more damage than that. And even if you were bitten, the only octopuses with a medically significant venom are blu-ringed octopuses.
I would say they are much easier to handle than any aquarium fish, as, you know... at least octopuses *can* be handled, while most fish are just there to be watched.
As a young Oregonian in the 1960s school girl I went to an aquarium as a field trip. There was a large pacific-something octopus in a cramped tank with rushing cold water. We could all touch him. I remember seeing his eye and being surprised that he was looking at us. Noticed his cage was really small.
Antisocial alien sea rat is not a string of words I ever thought I'd be hearing together
But it fits so intuitively now that I hear it said.
That story about the fish poaching happened in my oceanography class. The octopus was opening the tank, going to other tanks, eating the residents, going back to its tank, and closing the top like nothing ever happened. Our teacher only figured out where the fish were going by setting up a camera.
"I've been looking forward to this" -Count Dooku
your a jar of pickles how are you able to comment?😐
@@carlbrooks90 Yes
I had a pet blue ringed octopus for a short while. Very interesting pet and made short work of mantis shrimps and crabs. The crabs figured out pretty quickly who their tank mate was and would often turn up at the swimming pool after walking across the yard.
The octopus was released when we had to go away for a few weeks for work and went back where we caught her, no doubt with stories to tell the others.
“Should we make a video about rats we’ve never done that”
I was literally thinking they should do a video on rats right before he said this.
Yes please cover rats! I'm constantly telling people what great pet rats make. Really the best pocket pet in my opinion. It's amazing how smart and teachable they are; I've had rats that could walk on a harness and were litter box trained.
They are so lovely and full of personality! They're more interactive than any other small mammals I've kept. I have 13 of them. But I always try to warn people that while their upkeep costs are not very high, their medical costs can be tremendous (which could happen with lots of other animals, too, but rats are sadly particularly prone to a lot of problems).
I had an octopus about 10 years ago. It was an amazing escape artist and such a cool animal.
Ants Canada mentioned you in his newest video about retics 😄
Really? I'll have to check that out. We might do a collaboration in the future.
@@ClintsReptiles omg yes, you both have amazing energy and a contagious love for your subjects! 🤩
Are they the right pet for me? No
Do I plan on getting a tattoo of an octopus one day? Yes, they are beautiful and amazing
I’ve been waiting for this video for 6 months!!!
I hope it was worth the wait!
I love the idea of octopus being sapient one day, but they’re gonna have a hard time discovering fire.
@Artelian I love koseman, im gonna buy that on amazon right now if I can find it!
On this vein of uncommon sea creatures, I'd love to see a mantis shrimp video!
No need, mantis shrimp are pretty easy to care for, just the same requirements as every other saltwater critter, except it's an absolute killing machine that will kill and eat anything in its tank and trying to handle it in any way seriously might end up with broken finger bones & nasty compound fractures.
No I am not joking, of the two kinds they both use their claws, one to pinch the other kind to punch, to excert the energy of roughly a .22 caliber bullet. Due to the nature of the claw though, it's arguably a lot more damaging since a clean passthrough is very very unlikely, due to the mantis shrimp probably thrashing about while repeatedly "shooting" you.
If you want a cool salt water shrimp, a pistol shrimp is a safer, more sociable alternative. Could even pair it up with a shrimp goby to see a cool symbiotic relationship where the shrimp digs out a hidey hole for the two, while the goby holds a vigilant watch for safety since pistol shrimp (contrary to mantis shrimp) don't see very well.
@@Goofygooberston oh, I keep multiple mantis shrimps. I just would live to see him talk about them.
@@Goofygooberston they actually don’t all kill everything they see… I’ve had a few that left other things alone
They would get a 0 for handleability lol
@@hadla Exception doesn't make the rule :) there's a reason they're notorious hitchhikers on live rock
Is it really 3.4 overall? I thought it will be 2.4, but maybe you gave it an extra point somehow. Love the channel and octopi anyway. :)
"super intelligent silly putty" is the greatest description of an octopus I've ever heard.
ohhh, how lucky i am to catch this vid a minute after its release! i love octopuses, i'm excited!
Clint, your boundless enthusiasm and personal charm make every video a joy to watch. Thank you for your content!
How have you not done rats!? Yes, do rats!!! They are great pets!
Best ever!
It’s on my list of animals to get someday 😂
I second this! Please do rats; would love to get the rundown on them from you.
no
Worst.
I thought pet centipedes were the masters of escape, but perhaps there’s something even better at it. Why do all my favorite animals have these absurd qualities 😂 Newly subscribing by the way, you seem like an incredibly passionate, educated, and most of all nice guy! Love your videos!
Probably the most incredible creature I've ever worked with,And I'd absolutely love to keep one.
I don't know if I'm sad or relieved that octopuses didn't evolve to be social. With how we treat the ocean I doubt we'd be on their good side xD
Yet...
Octopodes are so whimsical and delightful 😌 one of my very favorite creatures 🐙
I just adore Octopodi! they are definitely one of the coolest beings on the planet
This channel is my comfort food.
I love this, octopus are 100% my favorite animal. I always wanted to keep one but unfortunately cant. But seeing this video makes me very happy thanks Clint!!
Definitely make a video about rats! I had two until recently, and they form such strong bonds with their owners. It's also worth mentioning that if you're going to get male rats, you should make sure they're from the same litter or you might end up with rat battle Royale
I observed an octopus for about an hour ( I had diving googles) at a beach on vacation in Greece and it was awesome. I even touched it and yes they are very slimey. I don't think it was seriously threatend by me, but in the end it was a little annoyed I think. It was really cool seeing them change colour and shape. They are truely alien creatures.
Hey, I’m wearing my Loveland Living Planet Aquarium hoodie as I’m watching this! Nice!
The octopus is my all time fav animal! They may not be the best pet but they are one of the coolest living organisms. If they lived any longer I'm convinced they'd have advanced communication and language skills and would quickly become our cephalopod overlords. Which I would rapidly welcome. Also, yes please cover rats. Rats are amazing pets and I'd love to see a video about them! 💓🐀🐙❤️
Nice little aliens you got footage of there!!
👽
Ok with a notification that cool you seriously can't expect me not to click it immediately xD
It's like watching Calvin, from "Calvin & Hobbes" all grown up and now a RAD! animal expert!
"So it's essentially a modified beetle that they bite with." God this is why I love these videos.
Dang, didn't realize y'all were so local! Love that Arapaima exhibit at the aquarium
Come to Clint's Reptile Room in Springville on Monday!
I already want an Octapus SO badly. I haven't started this video but I can bet money it's already my favourite.
Love 7:10 "hey, what are you guys doing? OK bye"
You could make a video on the blue whale being a good pet and I would still be very intrigued.
Actually, now I really want to see that happen. What have I done?!?!
Hey this is a great video! I am a grad student in a lab that researches the neuroscience and behavior of nudibranch sea slugs, which are gastropod mollusks, and I have learned a lot about octopus neuroscience research thanks to their shared ancestry in the mollusk family (well, technically phylum). Now I want a pet octopus, although it does feel like taking the first step to becoming a supervillain.
I love that you kept a tab in the left hand corner to explain what part of the video we’re on. This makes it so much easier. Love your content.
When I was a kid living on an Air Force base in Hawaii I got to hold and release a wild octopus. The lifeguard on the beach found a fairly small octopus stranded in a shrinking tidepool he caught it and was showing the kids on the beach. I was the eldest kid present so he let me hold it and entrusted me with releasing it back into the ocean. It was an orangey-brown color and about a foot and a half in size. Holding one was an amazing experience and what you said about them holding you was definitely the truth though that one was extremely gentle. Even after I got it back in the ocean it took it's time checking me out before it slowly wandered off.
Yes!! I hoped you'd do this, these guys are so cool and I love hearing about how intelligent they can be. I didn't know they couldn't see colors, somehow that makes them even cooler.
I'm now only calling octopuses "antisocial sea rats"
🌊🌊🐀🌊🌊
I'm so happy I'm alone!
I think a video on African Fat Tailed Geckos would awesome!
They’re unbelievably adorable looking.
I love that ze franc calls them "floppy-floppy spiders of the sea." 😂
Super excited for this one! I've always wanted you to do an episode for them! They've been a dream pet but as I get older, the more I think to myself about the complicated logistics behind keeping one so it got me pessimistic but you doing a video on it is really turning me around :D
Make a video about rats? Yes, absolutely!!! I always hear that they are wonderful pets, so sweet and full of personality and also very intelligent. I would love to see your take on them. I know it would be a really interesting, as well as funny video. Also thank you, Clint for the fascinating video on octopus. They are one of my favorite marine creatures.
I wish I could find it, I remember an interview of notable oceanographer who was talking about the ocean and sea life, cephalopods in particular and was pushing a theory that basically says because of the way octopuses can change color to match other things in the ocean despite not being able to SEE that color that our entire understanding of eyesight and what allows creatures to see color may be incredibly flawed and incorrect. Granted, recent research has suggested octopuses can see more colors than previously thought, but they still shouldn't be able to see some of the colors they match because they lack the proper rods and cones.
They're such amazing creatures! One of mother nature's most amazing & intelligent creations for sure.
Some corrections:
1. Octopodes do have a rudimentary shell (a small "bone"), just like snakes have legs.
2. Octopodes probably DO see in color. Instead of utilizing color-sensitive cells, they use diffraction. Their W-shaped eye causes diffraction of light near the edges and different colors diffract a bit differently, allowing octopodes to see the colors of objects without having any color-sensing cells.
The thing about their eyes is super cool! That really explains the shape.
I read the paper on the eye shapes, but in octopodes is more like a u than a w, in cuttlefish is clearly a w
@@patax144 Any shape with complicated slits will work, actually.
"People are eating people, I don't know..."
Had me cracking up 🤣
7:10 stingsray : hey there
Thankfully I live on the coast, so most fish stores in my area usually have natural sea water available on tap. The one my dad went to had a giant tank in the corner, bring in a water jug, then pay like $10. Helpful when you have a 50 gallon live tank with coral.
Ah yes, my favourite reptile: The Octopus aka the 8-legged Snake.
Here in Germany we had an octupus named Paul, he predicted every football Worldchampion- and Europe-Championship match of the german national team with an almost 100% rate IN ADVANCE (win/loss)! They truely are out of this world. Sadly Paul passed away a few years ago
Long ago (70's) I had a pet Octopus. Caught him off the back of our boat. Size wise it was perfect and we had been working with a 50 gallon Salt Water tank (we live in West Palm Beach Fl.) and had sought out some advice from some guy named Jacques Cousteau who was visiting Port Everglades in his ship Calypso. All of our previous attempts of starting a tank failed as we were using just artificial salt water. He recommended to go and get about twenty gallons of sea water and mix it with 30 of the artificial stuff so that we could get the micro organisms started in our tank. We had about 2 months of practice and had established a good tank. Then came the Octopus and the fun started. We had literally taped every hole and gap we had. Found out that our Octopus had a personality and wanted to decorate the aquarium his way. The more I tried to put stuff back the funnier it was. Needless to say the Octopus won. We also found out that he would on occasion dine other occupants of the tank (like Clown Fish). He would recognize me from across the room and go to the side of the tank so that we could interact with each other as he loved shrimp that were shelled. I would pet him and he would gently hold my finger. He did not care for my mother for some reason. On occasion I would bring home small crabs for him to eat and that was fun to watch - though cleaning up the shells was at times difficult unless he wanted you to do so. He last a couple of years and died. However it was an interesting 2 years though.
the backdrop alone is one of the best things i've ever seen
Great video and yes please make a video about rats ive kept them before and found them very intresting pets
Rodent vids would be cool. Especially chinchillas or capybaras
I'm loving this Cephalopod series Clint! Keep at it!
Octopus is my favorite animals! i love them they are so intelligent and fascinating in every way.
I'd love to see a video about rats!
First! 🐙
It’s so annoying when people say fir... oh, nvm.
Thanks for this video. Octopus are my favorite animals on the planet. Have been debating keeping one. This isn’t taming the temptation for me any less.
Omg yes, I've been waiting for this for ages! Thanks!
YES MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT RATS 🐀
Are you actually gonna be doing a video on rats? That would be amazing, I've got a lot of pets and my rats are among my top 5
The enthusiasm of this man is infectious I adore this channel
You're a delight, sir
That nautilus joke is great! You're one funny monkey, Clint!
I worked at a pet store years ago. Octopuses were the new popular but ridiculous pet to have. We got some, each one was in a tiny plastic egg like candy comes at Easter. Here is what I consider important to know. THEY ARE ESCAPE ARTISTS!! It was fascinating to see those little Hiudinis at work! The egg wasn't even a slight challenge for them. Getting them out from the salt water filtering system on the other hand..(.or 8 hands if you like) without killing them, was. It was my week to clean all the aquariums... all 60 of them. No sooner had I grabbed 2 slimy lil escape artists and put them back in the tank(I didn't even care about those stupid eggs by then, I'd just plop them back into their "home" and start cleaning again and SLURP I could hear one landing on the floor. I was AMAZED they didn't die on impact. Then I thought about it.... they have no bones to break and they are rubbery.... what ever it was besides being another mystery, the could take a fall of about 3.5 feet without turning into slimy yet adorable Cephalopod (I know that looks wrong but it's right). They are abundant here in Washington state where the record holder 🐙 Giant Northwest octopus hails from. I was certified as a Scuba diver in the mid-80s. You must go through a few tests out in open water. Our instructor knew a great place to take us to become certified. Whitney Island had a beautiful jetty. Down we went about 15 feet and Bud sort of patted the wall of life and OUT POPPED A FREAKING GIANT OCTOOUS!! He/she recognized Bud and the show began! She was all over him, "hugging" him and playing with his mask. You don't want water getting into your mask under water. It's a pain in the butt to get it back to normal. "Shelly" obviously knew this and they started playing Tug-of-war with his mask. He would hug her and she would sit on his head with all of her arms all over him. Mind you now, this is an octopus similar to the one behind Clint but Shelly was a bit larger. Bud named her "Shelly" because when he first met her, she was out of her den and was using shells as her "Costume" to hide from Baracuda. It was an unforgettable moment in time. Sadly, octopus only live a short amount of time anywhere from 2 to 3-ish years. In captivity they do a little better but not much. Bud said Shelly was probably in her 2nd year when he met her. He even had her picture on his desk.☺🐙