Coconut Octopus giving birth
Amphioctopus marginatus
This week we went to a dive site I had never been to before, in the south of Lembeh, on the mainland. It was very mucky but, as seems...
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Mimic Octopus – includes a fight
Thaumoctopus mimicus
Mimic Octopus are one of the most iconic critters we have in Lembeh. They are on most of our guests ‘wish list’, not surprisingly, as they are an amazing...
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Blue Ring Octopus hunting
Hapalochlaena sp.
I managed to film a very interesting sequence of some Blue Ring action that I hadn’t seen before. As I was filming this one it started to hunt. After...
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Occellate Octopus
Unknown
I was starting to think I had seen pretty much everything in Lembeh, but yet again was proved wrong. This is a video of an Occellate Octopus. This is the...
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Hairy Octopus
Octopus sp. 1
This is a wonderful find, the incredibly elusive Hairy Octopus. These are another very small little octopus and this was the first one I have seen. They are probably the...
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Mototi Octopus
Octopus mototi
This little guy is similar in size (though perhaps a little larger) and shape to it’s cousin, the Blue Ring Octopus, It is also similar in that it can produce...
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Blue Ring Octopuses Mating
Hapalochlaena sp.
I was lucky enough to find these two Blue Rings mating this week!! The male is holding on to the female, and you can see that slowly he starts to...
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Shaggy Octopus
Abdopus aculeatus
I thought that I had finally found the very rare Lembeh Hairy Octopus. It wasn’t, sadly, but a very interesting octopus none the less, and one we hadn’t seen before....
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Coconut Octopus
Octopus marginatus
This Veined, or commonly know Coconut, Octopus, decided that it was interested in my housing. After enveloping the lens it decided to sit on top of my housing!! A...
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Blue Ring Octopus Eating
Hapalochlaena sp.
I was lucky enough to catch a Blue Ring octopus making a kill. The Blue Ring was sitting on a small rock and a crab, nearly the same size...
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Blue Ring Octopus
Hapalochlaena sp.
This is a Midringed Blue-Ring, only found in Lembeh, Sulawesi. They spend most of their lives under rubble, so are very rare to spot. This one we found at...
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