[bravoreefer]

I am going to be doing research for one of my professors at Illinois College and need to find a secondary food source to keep the Octopuses alive. The primary food source is going to be freshwater crayfish. I found only one paper at my library talking about diets of octopuses and it stated that frozen marine shrimp provided the best growth rates. I was personally considering marine snails or some type of fresh water fish such as Tilapia spp.

I would appreciate suggestions for a food source and what kind of success with growth they provided. Any scientific articles to support your ideas would be excellent!

Thank you for your help!