i'm free oh you gorgeous little guy girl sorry oh whoa look how big this one is
good morning hope you slept okay i know i didn't sleep a wink
i was too stressed out worried about the fish and if they're gonna be okay or not check this out
oh my cats uh let's get some lights on and see how everybody's doing
yes sir so if you guys don't remember we got two octopus last night uh one for me
one for a friend uh they had terribly bad shipping um not terribly bad but it was about it was a long
long flight 40 hours and one of the first things i got to do it's so bright i'm tired sorry guys uh
one of the first things i had to do was i had so many things that
you know and in a timeline of events that are all stressful one will they survive the shipping too
will they survive the first 24 hours of being at home and if they do the first week can i get them
to eat today we're taking them from the holding containers which i think was a really good idea so
i'm able to really see what's going on here um and from the looks of things everybody's live i'm
just gonna give you guys a look so we put them in uh the shark eggs are in their own container
floating there they're gonna be perfectly fine like that however if you guys remember
we looked at inside all the eggs the other day and they're further along than i could have imagined
let me see if we could get this guy or girl i should say they're both girls
look at that isn't that incredible hello beautiful look at you so this
one will get released to the tank today this is a common octopus uh although
now that i've had it and it's starting to kind of color up it's starting to look like
a red octopus as well and maybe i took home the wrong ones either way
um they're so difficult to kind of identify at this size and
washed out and whatnot but we'll go and look at the other one you can see the difference
this one you see it's um you see it's tentacles it's tough to see but you can
see the white spots so i call it the red octopus but technically well it's the octopus macropus but
it's technically the white spotted atlantic octopus it's going to look like this or this
pretty cool huh and this one keeps getting a white stripe right down its head
but they're healthy they're doing fine it'll be interesting to uh add them to the tanks we're
going to do that right now i don't want to do it i don't want them in their containers anymore
but you know with the lights on and they're being active that is an incredibly uh positive
um look see is see the top of his mantle is that white stripe now is that we'll just have
to see him get him out of here it's so hard to kind of see through this plastic container
what an incredible animal absolutely fascinating i can't believe we've got one
and then you guys are going to come along for the ride i cannot wait
dangerous to have it with the sharks but it's not going to be able to get in there
i'll show you what i'll do i'm going to i'm going to fix the sharks up right now yeah so just to
make sure that the sharks have like a continuous fresh water in their little container here
i just dump out what's in there for the most part and fill it up with fresh tank water
i'll likely do that i said i was gonna do it like once a day but i'm out here so much and
i'm out here all day long i'll likely do that a few times a day like four to five times a day
which is not required but um we'll do it anyways the reason being they've got to stay in this
container because for as long as this guy's here and i'm starting to get attached to him
i know it's only been a day but for as long as he's here they've got to be protected and
once he's gone we can take these out and uh have the mountain about more
wow what a gorgeous animal can you guys even see that i'm so selfish just me looking
isn't this incredible let's get okay let's start by getting this guy out um we'll just let him
crawl out i don't know how to position the camera what would be the best angle for you guys to see
all right maybe something like that obviously i should be more professional with my videos but
i'm not i shut off the ambient lights yeah that should be better okay so this will be an easy one
we'll just let him come out on his own i'm not going to pour him out
there he goes look his tentacles out he's already coloring up look he's already happy
i'm free oh you gorgeous little guy girl sorry
i wonder if that's ammonia burn though that stripe on its head uh neither one of these guys
inked oh my lord i can't believe this is happening neither one of them inked but it
looks like they might have released a little bit of mucus into the tank
which is normal the mucus is just a melanin and or i'm sorry there's when they ink it's just uh
god i'm sorry i'm getting so distracted um it's simply a melanin and a mucus
uh it's non-toxic it's meant to confuse and and get away from other animals
uh it is thought that it might cause issues with uh like some of the sensory organs in other fish
to the point where uh mostly they're scent so it puts them off the trail you can remove
it from an aquarium with water changes and or carbon or it's not that big of a deal but isn't
this isn't this i wish you guys were here with me and i'm kind of trying to film it as if you were
i know i've been doing youtube for so long and sometimes the quality of my videos are
so horrible but i'm not a great youtuber i've never been oh my i think this is a
is it oh it is look he's going into the sand right so the man the atlantic white spotted octopus
they do bury themselves in the sand they more they are more of a nocturnal hunter and eating at night
so this is going to be interesting look at them going this is insane
this one's a little whiter and it's not looking as good so i technically i'm a little nervous
about adding it to the tank oh it's way bigger too my lord
oh whoa look how big this one is
oh my this one's way bigger
yeah i think they're both the atlantic red spot or the atlantic white spot
i don't think these are i don't think the other ones are common
there was an order and there was another uh octopus there and i think they they got the common
and i think i got two two of the uh white spots which are fine they just get a lot bigger
uh and have different needs how dark this one's gotten already go in your house little
guy that's what i got it for you'll come out and explore like your buddy when you're ready
get in there where'd your friend go
he's all over the tank he's over here though or she they're both girls this one's way
smaller probably half the size and then we got this guy in here oh he's looking at me
you should come out and play
you can explore look what i've built for you
take your time step one
after a i think approximately a 40 hour flight i could be wrong there could have been longer
could have been shorter but after we got them and as soon as i was at the store i
knew i had about two hours before i could get them home so i had immediately at that time
changed the water at the store and rebagged them that was like step one can they can they
survive a couple more hours in there i didn't know do that do that rebagging get them home
and can they survive the first 24 hours yes they did oh there's there's crabs in this tank too
they did survive the first 24 hours the next step is will they survive the week and if they do
can we get them to eat once we get these animals to eat
it's all downhill from there it's going to be far more enjoyable less stress i'll actually be
able to have a good night's sleep maybe sometime this week but we don't know check this one out
it's so it's this one's so much more curious now i got to give them names ah
man i kind of want to keep them both the sharks would technically do okay in here with it for a
short while but so long as i continue to uh do what i've been doing which is replace the water
in the tank uh and they're holding wild tank for a while but i don't know now that we can see their
tentacles though so center one two three there's tentacles all the way to the end of that one
and one two oh this one's kind of ripped off but i would definitely suggest it's a female
and the other one
it's just it's still hiding in here which is fine this is what these rocks are for somewhere's for
you to go to hang out and hide for a little bit until you feel like you want to come out oh he's
looking he positioned himself to or herself do you see her eye she positioned herself to be
able to see us i'm going to shut off ambient lights let them relax look at the tentacles
coming out everywhere this is hilarious now they're going back in a little nervous an
octopus should always have like a lot of the times it's tentacles outreached and exploring
unless they are nervous or scared or hiding which is normal for a fish that just got added to a tank
but i would suggest this guy's tentacles are probably at least a foot wide and they do get
up to like i think with tentacles four feet but the mantle isn't that big so sizing an aquarium
to an octopus is much different than you might think isn't this just absolutely incredible the
stuff we're going to learn over the next couple of years on these guys is just going to be absolutely
mind-blowing and phenomenal and here's the thing this is my personal introduction to cephalopods
i also would love to have cuttlefish and other types but octopus of course absolute dream
this is my chair
seriously guys this is insane i am sitting in between two octopus in my gallery that
you guys have followed along for four years and this is just such an incredible i can't believe
i just turned around and we have an octopus right there
i'm out here every morning i'm going to be sitting here drinking my coffee editing
videos filming feeding i spend more time out here than i do in my house this is like my man cave
i think for the time being though i won't be facing that way that way for a while wow
ah okay i'm gonna wake up i'm gonna be out here for the next probably eight hours or so
and i guess i guess that should be it for today i mean it could take up to a week
for me to actually uh get it on camera where they're eating and doing much better but
let's see how this goes long-term um and that'll be it for today's video unboxing and adding
the octopus as well as the well the sharks were easy they're already there but what an
what a hobby what a hobby oh weird