All hail the Octopus !

Is it Octopuses or Octopi? I'm never really sure. Regardless of my woeful ignorance for pluralising oceanic tentacled lifeforms, just how intelligent are these creatures anyway?

This one seems to have worked out that a coconut shell can be both utilised as a crash helmet and a handy hiding place. There's clear intelligence here as the Octopus first finds the coconut and then takes it with him to cleverly use later on.

I wonder what he would do if he found something more useful like a Machine Gun. An Octopus with a Machine Gun could really clean up.

Is this Octopus really that intelligent though? If people saw me up our Local High Street hiding under a coconut, I'd be branded an idiot. They see an Octopus do it and suddenly he's a Genius. Octopuses get all the breaks.

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My Tropical Fish Aquarium Suddenly isn't big enough...

Any obsessed keeper of Tropical Fish will be well familiar with the term "Multiple Tank Syndrome".

MTS is where your love of the hobby gets to such a point, that you desire to keep more and more different species of fish. You suddenly find your existing aquarium simply isn't big enough anymore for your new growing ambitions. And somewhat inevitably you buy an even larger Aquarium to satisfy your growing fishy addiction. After a while, the cycle then repeats itself and you are now deep inside the realms of Multiple Tank Syndrome. These pretty glass boxes are soon everywhere.

Anything can trigger the start of MTS. Reading about a fish in a book or the Internet, or often just seeing a larger more impressive tank than your own. Anyway, take a look at this...

I hope this has helped any sufferers out there. You can't beat a tank that's so large, the only way to clean it is to put on full Scuba-Diving gear and jump in with a large underwater Vacuum Cleaner.

Care: This size Aquarium may be a bit heavy for some floor joists.

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