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Captive octopuses can spray jets of water out of their tanks, hitting people and sometimes ruining lab electronics.

Earlier this year, a little one-pound octopus at the Santa Monica Aquarium spent a night spraying so much water dismantling its water valve and flooded several rooms:

The Aquarium learned the hard way that eco-friendly cork is not the ideal flooring for a saltwater aquarium housing a strong and curious little two spotted octopus. On February 26, 2009, the staff arrived and discovered a one pound two-spotted octopus in the Kid’s Corner had flooded the visitor gallery and staff offices with at least 200 gallons of saltwater.

More about octopuses—including why they’re not “octopi”—here.

And your daily dose of NSFW octopus porn is below the jump.

UPDATE

Because my reading-comprehension is poor, I misunderstood exactly how the octopus flooded the aquarium. It didn’t squirt water, it tore up its water-recycling system (another popular octopus hobby). I hang my head in shame.

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(Image from here.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

15 replies on “Octopus Facts/Porns of the Day”

  9. While it’s true that octopuses can squirt water themselves, the Santa Monica octopus was messing with the water recycling system:

    “The guest of honor in the aquarium’s Kids’ Corner octopus tank had swum to the top of the enclosure and disassembled the recycling system’s valve, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater.

    “It had grabbed the tube that pulls out the water and caused it to spray outside the tank,” said aquarium education specialist Nick Fash. Judging by the size of the flood, Fash estimated that the water flowed for about 10 hours before the first staff member, Aaron Kind, showed up for work.”

    Way to go little octopus!

  10. “what on earth could be NSFW about octopuses mating?” i says. “surely it’s something i can peek at even though a dozen coworkers can readily see my screen at any given moment,” i says.

  12. Back in Olympia, I was friends with this girl from Japan. Her boyfriend moved back to Japan and left all this porn. One was really fucked up. It was a girl, strapped to an operating table, naked. Her feet were in stirrups. Then a “doctor” came in. Starting with a pencil, he put objects in her vag and pull. She’d hold the object in as long as possible. Each object was larger than the last. The final exercise came when a “nurse” wheeled a large tank of water over with a large live octopus. The nurse held the girl’s vag open while the doctor pushed the whole octopus into it. She held it in a good 15 seconds before the first tentacle came out. Then it extracted itself.

    I was about 19 when she showed me that. I was never the same.

    You’re all welcome.

  15. Commenters: The octo-porn is old. Good, but old. I hope this prompts all y’all to be more pro-active in seeking out terrible things on the internet. If it weren’t for Slog, you may have never even seen this! Ever! You could have died, unknowing.

    Brendan: Excellent post & article!

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