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surgeonfish 02-03-2007 10:42 PM

Found an octopus in my pocket!
 
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Just thought I would share a little story from my Mexico trip last week.

On the first day of our holiday I took my little girls down to the beach for a walk. While exploring a tide pool, I found a seashell. I checked to make sure it wasn’t alive, than placed in my pocket. A few minutes later I put another shell in my pocket. To my surprise, there was something wet and slimy in my pocket. I thought it was going to by the foot from the live shell. However, it turned out to be a small octopus. I tried to place it back into the shell, but it just sat on the rim giving me the evil eye. I gently put him back in the ocean. I’m not sure how well he will survive that close to shore, but maybe he will swim out to deeper water.

I,m glad I was in Mexico, 1000 miles away from home, because I would have been so tempted to put him/her in my tank (although I know what caos that would cause).


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deep_six 02-03-2007 10:50 PM

that is too cool!:biggrin:

Neil 02-03-2007 11:28 PM

good thing it was mexico and not australia. A little blue ring in your pocket would certainly suck any fun out of your vacation.

akos21 02-03-2007 11:32 PM

well being dead kind of does that to any vacation, now doesn't it.. :razz:

surgeonfish 02-03-2007 11:33 PM

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I agree. If I was in australia I definitely would not have taken it out of my pocket with my hands.

justinl 02-04-2007 12:56 AM

hahaha cool story. it's so cute! We have a baby octopus in my lab at work who i named squiggles.

Delphinus 02-04-2007 02:32 AM

Wow that is very cool. Not something that happens every day!!

When I was 11 and visiting my sister (who lives down under) I picked up a shell from a beach near Taronga Zoo and put it in my pocket. Although it wasn't a bluering octopus that turned out to be hitching a ride, just a hermit. :lol:

Farrmanchu 02-04-2007 02:19 PM

Very Cool, It'll be fine. He probably feasts on stuff trapped in the tide pools, and never goes out to the big open Sea.

Murminator 02-04-2007 05:19 PM

Glad it was no blue ringed octo :mrgreen:

Coldwater 02-04-2007 07:56 PM

It didnt bite you? When I was on the west coast of the island I picked up one in a tide pool and it was about the size of a quarter and started to feast on my hand. Little bugger wouldnt let go and bit me about six times:redface: ... so now he is in his own little aquarium.

Matt


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