Hi everyone,
I was doing a muck dive the other day and my buddy and I came across this guy I suspect it's a young lesser blue ring octopus, but I'm not sure, I was hoping you could help.
Size: 1.5cm "ish"
The bottom: heavy sand with peices of coral rubble, 15m depth
His (her?) reaction to being photographed was to stay still not really changing colours and to crawl slowly away pressing his body close to the sand, after two or three photos changed to white and quickly jetted away approx 1m off the bottom.
I was doing a muck dive the other day and my buddy and I came across this guy I suspect it's a young lesser blue ring octopus, but I'm not sure, I was hoping you could help.
Size: 1.5cm "ish"
The bottom: heavy sand with peices of coral rubble, 15m depth
His (her?) reaction to being photographed was to stay still not really changing colours and to crawl slowly away pressing his body close to the sand, after two or three photos changed to white and quickly jetted away approx 1m off the bottom.