Octopus, The Best Pet Cephalopod?

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?

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[ClintsReptiles]

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?

[sampagano]

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.

[ProceedMortal]

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.

[TitoTitoTitoTito]

If octopuses lived longer, they'd rule the world

[neilchace]

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.

[rosspasse]

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!

[Sabuuchi]

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.

[fionnmonstyr]

*clint sees an animal*

This might be the coolest thing on the entire planet!

[JasperCatProductions]

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!

[LordofFullmetal]

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.

[cs]

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.

[shemariguess]

"Modified beetle that they bite with" amazing

[mooniejohnson]

"Superintelligent muscular silly putty with a marble inside" is my new favorite term for an octopus.

[shadowjewel]

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. 😂

[duybear]

"My Octopus Teacher" is the nature film that made me really appreciate them.

[sampagano]

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.

[klausgartenstiel]

"when it comes to handleability, we give humans a 2 out of 8."

[darkhumour]

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

[shemariguess]

A video about huntsman spiders would be cool. underrated spider

[Aegisdex]

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