how rare are flamboyant cuttlefish?

[Spoon]

guys was doing a 4rth dive yesterday and saw the weirdest creature i have ever scence. looked like a crawling technicolored/tie dye cuttlefish. was about palm sized and had a neat trick of sticking out a long harpoon/tentacle/tounge out of its mouth to catch small fish. i knew i should ahve brough my camera, after that i describe it to friends and they say i have just scene a flamboyant cuttlefish. which is supposedly very rare in the philippines. i know of people who have been diving for decades and havent seen one.

 

[Vie]

Don't know how rare they are in the PI, but they are relatively easy to find around Lembeh (N. Sulawesi, Indonesia). There are two species of Flamboyant: Metasepia pfefferi and Metasepia tullbergi.

Distribution of Metasepia pfefferi is from Indonesia to eastern Papua New Guinea and across northern Australia. Metasepia tullbergi (aka Northern Flamboyant Cuttlefish) can be found from Hong Kong to southern Japan.

 

[Spoon]

Don't know how rare they are in the PI, but they are relatively easy to find around Lembeh (N. Sulawesi, Indonesia). There are two species of Flamboyant: Metasepia pfefferi and Metasepia tullbergi.

thats good to know coz i seriously wanna take pics of these amazing critters.

 

[Vie]

Yeah, I love 'em. Have only seen a flamboyant cuttlefish on three separate occasions, all in Lembeh Straits - once at Larry's Crack and twice at Hairball.

 

[Mike Veitch]

Yep, pretty much rare non existent out of PI, Indo, and PNG

 

[Spoon]

Yep, pretty much rare non existent out of PI, Indo, and PNG

i should have brought my camera! only time i brought it down was in that horrible first dive i had!

 

[Mike Veitch]

i should have brought my camera! only time i brought it down was in that horrible first dive i had!

I never leave home without one....

 

[Spoon]

I never leave home without one....

i used to bring em down on all of my dives til a group swore they were entanglement points when clipped

 

[Mike Veitch]

i used to bring em down on all of my dives til a group swore they were entanglement points when clipped

Doing it so silly...

 

[Spoon]

Doing it so silly...

amen to that