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he does have an eyespot although it does not look quit the same as the pic you posted, the first pic i circled the spot, he has one on each side, its difficult to see, hes always moving around and when he does stay still his spot is usually smooshed so it is still not entirley visible
i dont know much about O. cyanea but i guess anything is possible
as for his pattern hard to tell, kinda looks like a chain but then again sometimes it just looks like a mottled pattern
Can you describe the false eyespot? I can see it fairly well in one pic. There is no chain at all, is there? What colors do you see? Is there any black?
Interesting little octo, but I don't think he's a bimac, so we need to try to identify him.
the spot looks more like a blue spot than a ring with kinda of a brown ring around it his colors are usually a light tan with a black pattern and his skin has a lot of texture, when he starts moving about his skin turns somewhat smooth and he tends to be a golden color
i will try to get a better pic of his spot, kinda tough though with him being small
Well, the Cyanea is given as body to 16 cm (6 in), arms to at least 80 cm (30 in)--
BUT, the article in Cephalopods: a World Guide also says
"This species is recognized by the black false-eye spot (which lacks an iridescent ring) and red-brown arm tips with regular rows of white spots. The dark eye spot is only expressed in some color patterns, however the ring of skin ridge surrounding the spot is still visible in most displays"
This isn't what I'm seeing in the pics posted - or at least, so it seems. I've seen that ring that your octo has somewhere, but I can't find any pic right now.
i hand fed him a little peice of shrimp today, he grabbed my finger as well, but being that i dont yet have a positive id on the little guy i was kinda weary of letting him climb on me hand and possibly beak me
I think that it could be a cyanea if there are eyespots are black. The bimacs will have the iridescent blue sheen to their spots while cyanea will have it them dark. Not recommended but try giving the octo a small shock to see if the colour of the spots displayed .
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