so i go to get an urchin, and this is what i come back with...

[saltyESQ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10016763#post10016763 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by glaudds
Actually that is a "mimic blue ring octo" in the picture....it takes on the characteristics of the blue ring so that predators will avoid it.

now I actually cant tell if you are joking or not......

 

[glaudds]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10016793#post10016793 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltyESQ
now I actually cant tell if you are joking or not......

Hmmmm......

 

[Scissorhand]

alright guys, it's getting lame. let this one die pls.

 

[sonnyofoster]

Blue Ring ID

Blue Ring ID

http://helium.vancouver.wsu.edu/~lindblad/blueringedoctopus.html

Although there are many types of blue ring octopus, the one as a subject in this tread is also a venomous blue ring octo.

Maculotoxin is a venom found in the salivary glands of the blue ringed octopus. It is the venom version of tetrodotoxin, which is found in the pufferfish. It is the only form of tetrodotoxin to be found as a venom (Sheumack, Howden, Spence & Quinn, 1978).
The effects of maculotoxin are the same as tetrodotoxin. Animal victims of the blue ringed octopus are often fully conscious and paralyzed as the octopus consumes them. Humans can also be harmed by this neurotoxin, but only when they disturb or step on one of these octopi.
The blue rings on the octopus flash and change shape to warn predators that they are deadly to eat.

Please let me know where to find him. I have a hermit crab i would like to itroduce to him.

 

[LANDINI]

Dude this thread is almost as funny as the soy sauce guy