Blue Heron Bridge Trolls

[mntlblok]

I guess it ain't gonna happen. Doesn't want to upload for me from this puter today. Did see a full sized nurse shark whiz by on the west side late yesterday afternoon. Oh, and one of those oddly colored, dark, juvie (scrawled?) filefish just before the nursey went by. Oh, and a grand total of one dully colored little seahorse just before exiting. Oh, and a very active octopus hunting on the west side of the west wall. Biggest octo I've seen out here and he was constantly changing colors, especially as the damsel fish kept attacking him. Oh, and an octo who seemed to be trying to find a way to get his clam inside his beer bottle.

Looks like the uploads are working, again. Here's a start.

I'm getting a hint, now, for why they call them orange spotted filefish (juvie).

 

[mntlblok]

spot eared octo

This guy was significantly larger and "different" looking (and behaving) to me (somehow) when I found him hunting on the west wall. I now note an "ear spot" as I go through the pics. Don't know much about octo ID. Seemed to turn white whenever the cocoa pecked at him.

 

[djtimmy77]

Here are a few shots from friday:

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

DJ.. is that a little shrimp in the froggies mouth?



Bimini, thanks for being a buddy yesterday. AWESOME dive! woot!!! Too many nudis to count. Some of my photos turned out OK, nothing really good enough to get real excited about. may need to go back and reshoot.

 

[djtimmy77]

I think it is....I wish I would have noticed it while I was taking the photos and I would have taken a closer photo of it.

 

[Biminitwist]

Jenny
Thanks, it was a fantastic dive.
I lost track of how many cool thing we saw.
Will post pics if we have time but are going again tonight so need to prioritize.
Don't tell Kevin about the micro orange frogfish, it will just make him crazy
John

Yes, the striated are covered in those tiny aphid - skeleton looking shrimp if you look closely.......

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

we didn't see no pygmy frogfish.. nope. not at all... don't know what you're talking about.

 

[D2Diver]

This guy was significantly larger and "different" looking (and behaving) to me (somehow) when I found him hunting on the west wall. I now note an "ear spot" as I go through the pics. Don't know much about octo ID. Seemed to turn white whenever the cocoa pecked at him.

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Kevin,
Great find. This is the 4th documented one seen at BHB that I know about. They have probably been there forever but with so many octopus photos taken have probably been overlooked. It is a Caribbean Two-Spot Octopus: Octopus filosusi. This ID from the Humann/Deloach Reef Creature ID book. I have seen them but not yet at BHB.
Hope you had a good long weekend diving
Deb

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DJ.. is that a little shrimp in the froggies mouth?

Yes it is an amphipod. Not sure the species.
PS Joanie they do exist as hitchhikers

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

So need a diopter.. surprised this came out at all.
Hypselodoris ruthae "Gold-line Sea Goddess" REEF Creature ID book puts at Ocassional Caribbean, rare Bahamas. woot!

Not identified. so for now it is a Jenuchis babilonia

Not really worth of posting, so Kevin don't look

 

[Popacork]

Here's some lucky finds I had on my trip with Kevin (mntlblok) this weekend