Octo babies

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Dusty2
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Octo babies

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I saw this on facebook. It is the most awesome octo egg picture I have ever seen.
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Awesome!!

I heard a rumor that there was a hatching at Sund Rock this past weekend... north side, in about 60' of water... :joshsmith: :joshsmith: :joshsmith: Maybe that means some of the other nests are hatching soon too? there were I think 2 nests to the north and another 2 or 3 the south when we were over there first weekend of December, all in the 40-60' range.

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great picture! I've seen the eyes before, but never the whole octopus
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Way cool. I wonder what it was taken with? It would be difficult to get a large camera rig w/ strobes back in a den to get that detail. It may be cropped a bit, but they had to get their camera pretty close.

Also sounds like a trip to Sund soon is in order :-)
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Wow -- where did that picture come from?

There was a series a while back on ScubaBoard of a red octo's den and eggs, and the divers went back repeatedly to document the eggs maturing, but I don't remember if they got any shots with the baby octos as well developed as that.
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I'm failure sure this came from a series of photos of octopus eggs in a biology lab (not in the wild). Beautiful nonetheless
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