Octopus to control aptaisia?

[Melanie]

While browsing ebay today I came across this interesting listing.
live coral,1 Octopus briareus. med size.saltwater - (eBay item 220174244258 end time Nov-26-07 07:14:07 PST)

Interesting quote from his listing.

If you have a saltwater tank these guys are a must. Very reclusive habits, but useful in that it will kill aiptasia and other nuisance pests.Peppermint shrimp are very interesting to watch, but adding them to a reef tank is, in my opinion not a good idea.

 

[michael_cb_125]

Octopus are very hard to keep. Why would someone sell them to rid tanks of aiptasia.~Michael

 

[panmanmatt]

Yeah, like I'd trust an octo in a reef tank more that I'd trust peppermint shrimp.

 

[BigAl07]

Well I've been doing it ALL wrong all this time!! I'll toss my shrimp on the "Barbie" tonight and get one of those for EACH of my tanks

 

[Melanie]

Yeah, I think I'll get two because I heard they clean hair algae **wink**

 

[BigAl07]

I'm going to cancel my Sea Hare order and change it over to this!! That would be MUCH cooler than a Sea Hare anyway

 

[CATALYST]

My neighbor stuck a little tiny octopus in his tank. It ate everything in his tank, got loose, and died.

 

[boozeman]

it is truly amazing the way an octopus can squeeze thru the smalest openning

 

[cracker]

Have You folks seen the "Shark versus octopus" video? I think it's from the Monterey Aquarium.

 

[JFK_Jr]

My Peppermint says....

 

[JT101]

Yeah, I can't wait to get one so it can squeeze out of my tank, roll around on the living room floor and scare the living crap out of my wife :bouncebox !

 

[Dentoid]

My Peppermint says....

:laughroll Love the Amy Winehouse track!

 

[vdituri]

Ah, the octopus!
Nature's cure all. It slices, it dices, it plucks aipstasia.
But wait there's more!
Order now and receive the free miracle mud.
Cures what ails ya.
All for $1.99. Sound too good to be true?

Well, yeah, it is. We haven't worked out all the bugs yet.

Octopus version 2.0 coming soon. lol

 

[prow]

i hear certain sharks will eat anything. how about a shark to replace my cleaner goby for the upgraded tank i bet it eats ich

 

[AQTCJAK]

I have kept Octopi even the deadly blue ring they are no hard to keep just very good escape artists a sealed tank is a must. They are varocious eaters as well. Here is a video of what this mear inverabrate can do

Video: Giant Octopus Battles Shark

This almost sounds like the guy that was selling apitasia on ebay

 

[kathywithbirds]

WOW quite a video Jack!

Geez, now I gotta go return my octopus. ... hey, where the *^$ is Spot???

 

[Doot77]

Nice find on that video, the Shark didn't even see it coming.

 

[wonderloss]

I will have to keep that in mind if I ever have to deal with shark overpopulation.

 

[lcstorc]

A couple of weeks ago my lfs had some very very tiny Octopi. I forget what he called them but they were really tiny and he said they stay tiny. Has anyone else seen these? Well other than Cat who was with me.

 

[wonderloss]

Blue-ring octopuses stay very tiny. However, I would be reluctant to keep such a critter.