101 - #29 - Go to the Seattle Aquarium for Octopus Week

[dirtylibrarian]

Today I finally made it to Octopus Week at the Seattle Aquarium.  I've been wanting to go to this for years, and while it wasn't mind-blowing, it was fun.  Like the hundreds of children there celebrating their day off from school, I went with my mom.  We went to the aquarium a few years ago together, so it wasn't all that new for either of us, but we still had a good time. 

They do have a gigantic new tank near the entrance we hadn't seen, and some divers brought in an octopus to show off to everyone.  Apparently they generally aren't left with other fish much, as they tend to eat them...including: sharks! 

Overall, not too much above and beyond for adults, but being around a bazillion other octopus fans made for a lovely afternoon.  Until I got claustrophobic and had to get the hell out of there.  Happily, my mom then took me out to a nice lunch, and then I made her buy me huckleberry ice cream, because I am seven when I am around my mom apparently.
                                          

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I just read about octopus week tonight in the paper (or maybe on the paper, I was surfing). It sounded like fun. Yeah!

[rebellibrarian.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great day!

And I love the pix - very cool.

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gryph.livejournal.com]

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!

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

I think it is so cool that people have octopi as pets!

I've heard before about them getting out to eat other things...an aquarium worker told me a similar story after stuff kept going missing from the tide pool, they put up a camera and caught the octopus sneaking out! I'm impressed they can survive outside of water like that.

Did you ever see it do it?

[gryph.livejournal.com]

I myself never saw him do it, but my boyfriend caught him on his way to the crab tank, and put him back in his own tank. I don't know if he would have gone back to his own or just stayed in the crab tank and had a king's feast. I'm going to guess feast!

The clown fish he ate was in his own tank. Maybe he didn't get fed soon enough and went for a fellow resident.

We had a bunch of other really cool fish too. I had a cow fish and a brittle star fish. The cow fish ate all the legs off the brittle star until it was left a stump. Still, it managed to survive without legs for quite some time. Oh, and I had a snowflake eel too. Ah, the good old days.

Here's a cow fish. Mine started out as a "dingleberry" (seriously, that's what they are called as babies), no horns, and about the size of a sugar cube!

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Oh I love cowfish. They are so boxy!

[gryph.livejournal.com]

I was looking for a picture of a blue ring octopus and came across this site: http://www.didyouknow.org/animals/octopus.htm

You have to see the video there on octopi, it's amazing!!!