Feeding a Giant Pacific Octopus at New England Aquarium! OctoNation Octopus Fan Club 

I agree..why don't they live longer?

Agreed!

@@shanesmith9820 1 yr. - 5 yrs. Females basically live, to give birth up 200k eggs & protect them , 6 - 10 months and then Die -

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Me too! Stay safe

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Fabulous story. It was very affecting.

The octopus's suction cups are equipped with chemoreceptors so the octopus can taste what it touches!

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Awesome! Welcome in Kathy!!!

Totally! Just wait until you see our next visit with Godzilla from aquarium of the pacific! He was GIGANTIC!

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Sy Montgomery is SO amazing!

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Major Old Lady aka, Mom love it. If this miserable disease ever gets a real vaccine that I and my friends trust I will be up visiting as fast as my car can take me. I’m not good at going alone to places and my housemate isn’t into the things I am. I can get her up there, but her daughter, son in law and the second cutest grandson on the coast (mine naturally comes in first) live there and aren’t into Oceanography, or Flight such as the Air and Space Museum at Boeing!

Thanks for joining in!

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Really appreciate you! I renewed my membership there even though I live in texas! Love NEAq!

Welcome in Wanda!

Seattle here. We got rain and cleared out most of the smoke a few days ago You? Love Oregon! Better litter laws and public behavior about it, but both still facing public unrest. Ugh!, right? Spent many weeks skiing at Mt. Bachelor, grandparents used to live in The Dalles, family just outside of Portland, many vacations in Astoria, Cannon Beach, rented some dune buggies on the Dunes. Picked sand out of my ears and teeth for 3 days, lol!

Major Old Lady aka, Mom: lived in Pendleton for 23 years before going to see the world. Came Home to Oregon 30 years ago and have no desire to leave again. If we could get a media blackout I think our Protests would work out, but after Trump sent his Brown Shirts to kick the bees nest over we were doomed for the nightly entertainment crowd and the penis waivers to kick in . If the normal rainy season would start maybe we could find some cooler heads on both sides who don’t see compromise as cowardice!

Absolutely.

Yes. Their suction cups are amazing sensors, and can smell via them, as well.

Tatoosh is approx. 6 months or so old. He hasn't tried to leave the exhibit... octopuses live very solitary lives, so he'll eventually learn that bill is safe and stay and interact longer.

OctoNation - The Largest Octopus Fan Club the trouble with calling him a giant Pacific Octopus is I keep expecting to see something out of the old Disney “Voyage to the bottom of the Sea!” Next my imagination with all of these “Thank Heaven they don’t have something like hands with opposable thumbs, or mammals would be swamp creatures” is the Twilight Zone story of the people who plan and work hard to get out of their round slick sided prison until one makes it and discovers they are Dolls in a Christmas gift barrel. So he is really a baby Giant Pacific Octopus! Do they live near the top of the water column and slowly seek the depths if they survive to be larger? How long will he stay in your exhibit? Until he gets too big, or until you feel he needs to go out and learn to be an octopus?

Solving Politics - 3-5 years

@@octopusfanclub why so short lived?

Yup, he's brand new to the aquarium!

Because octopus hatchings aren't reared well in captivity (nearly impossible) they will not mate them.

Major Old Lady aka, Mom Mom, watch MY OCTOPUS TEACHER on Netflix. 🐙

@@lizannewhitlow1085 That was SUCH an incredible documentary!

@@octopusfanclub Have you contacted THE DIRECTORS (don't play w the small fry, right?) at both the Seattle Aquarium AND Point Defiance State Park and Aquarium in Tacoma WA? They both may have info for breeding programs and or contacts around the World, that you might find helpful. That little guy is only a juvenile, a baby. He needs to get used to his new home/environment, but can and will eat you out of house and home when he gets familiar w his new environment (the Aquarium) meaning the other animals, crab, sea urchins and any other thing that he deems an appropriate snack or meal. My first SCUBA Certification was at the Edmonds, WA, under-water Marine Sanctuary. Go down 30 feet, drop the weight belt and all gear 30 feet down on the depth meter guage. Interestingly enough, the SCUBA gear at the top of the tank is called an Octopus, depth gauge, always an extra regulator, temp sensors, tank pressure gauge, etc. Pop up, give the ok (👌) sign, swim back down 30 feet and find your gear. First stop? The Regulator/air supply. 3,400 psi tank, then the weight belt, strap that on, find the tank, roll it over your head w your BCD (Buoyancy Control Device) secure it all, and pop up to give the ok sign to the Master Diver Certified Instructor. I was wearing an Offshore dry suit w a sheepskin liner. I was in shorts and a t-shirt in water that ranges between 47 and 52 degrees f, at 2 atmospheres below sea level. Puget Sound. Every 3 feet is an atmosphere, below water level, pressure to the body. Advanced Open Water Certification was on Alki Beach, SW of Seattle, around the curve of Elliot Bay (Seattle, a major International Port City). Snorkled on my back w the Master Diver Instructor and went down w full gear this time. Amazing. Someone had dumped some porcelain toilets, and there was a group of octopi that made them their home. That's how I knew that your octopus was so young. Hope this helps. Please contact them. They are all amazing. Will help you? Not kidding, just like a teenager, they will eat your other Aquarium animals. Guaranteed. I know. I have one. He is a Soldier and has a ton of Barracks Battle Buddies that pop in and clean the cupboards out. Ditto, for Tatoosh. Is Tatoosh a Native American Indian Tribe name? I think so. We have many Native Tribes in Washington State. Very small part Cherokee... 12%?

Donna Adams British Columbia

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You can schedule a meet and greet at aquarium of the pacific!

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@@octopusfanclub Lol! Says you... Depends upon what else he can find in his new fishbowl. Mark my words, my friend. 🤗 Don't want to wag this Major Old Lady's (aka, mom's) arthritic fingers and say "Toldja so"... I'm sure you know what you're doing... 🤗 Many blessings. Next vid? Fundraiser for new aquatic life, cuz Tatoosh got comfy... and hungry? Lol?

Grammatically speaking, the plural for octopus is octopuses. As the Merriam-Webster dictionary points out, people use three different terms, however: octopi, octopuses, and octopodes. While “octopi” has become popular in modern usage, it's wrong. qz.com/1446229/let-us-finally-resolve-the-octopuses-v-octopi-debate/#:~:text=Grammatically%20speaking%2C%20the%20plural%20for,in%20modern%20usage%2C%20it's%20wrong.

@@octopusfanclub Thank you! You can't put a Latin "I" on a Greek word!