Coconut Octopus

Found singly, on sandy bottoms, often buried in the sand or in receptacles like coconut shells, over bays and lagoons. Colour varies to blend in with surroundings.

This wonderful Octopus found hiding inside coconut shells, covered in shells, empty snail shells in bottles or just buried in the sand with only the eyes showing, it has the ability to walk away on two arms.

Octopus make their homes in holes in the reef or bury in the sand.
They can often be found by the tell tail debris outside the holes.
Octopus feed by grabbing their prey with their tentacles or by spreading their skirt (the webbing between their tentacles) over the reef and hoovering up underneath.
They have a beak for biting their prey, the bite quickly paralyses their prey.
Some of the smaller Octopus are venomous to humans.

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