Ah, nice to see a picture of your mom. I totally see you in her!

I used to have a blue-ring octopus back when I lived in CA and had a salt water tank. We would collect shelled crabs (not hermit) for him at our local tidepools. My boyfriend had a bigger octopus at his place, and it would climb out of the tank and scoot across the room. He once ate my bf's clown fish, which upset him very much. He loved that fish.

Octopi (?) are cool!