Nautilus

[MacHeath]

Am off to Manado, specifically Bunaken, in a couple of weeks (I can hardly wait).

Two things I would really like to see are a Nautilus and a mimic octopus.

Have any of you seen either of these in Manado? If so where and when?
Please don't say in a restaurant......

Thanks

 

[Evil]

Been to Manado twice but never lucky enough to see those 2 that u mentioned...but the DM from Tasik Ria Resort told us they saw a blue-ringed octopus on 1 of the night dive at their house reef during our last trip in jun this yr...

Good luck & happy diving!

 

[frogfish]

Am off to Manado, specifically Bunaken, in a couple of weeks (I can hardly wait).

Two things I would really like to see are a Nautilus and a mimic octopus.

Have any of you seen either of these in Manado? If so where and when?
Please don't say in a restaurant......

Thanks

I haven't seen a mimic octopus myself but the Dive Guides in Lembeh see them regularly... So if you go to the Lembeh side you have a chance I think.

I don't know about nautilus in Manado

 

[ssra30]

Never been to Manado myself (almost made it there earlier month but plan got canceled at the last minute :-( ). Anyhow, I was told that certain resort may be able to arrange for nautilus trapping, usually from Lembeh side somewhere and they can release it at a more convenient location for you to take a picture. I believe nautilus generally live very deep down so most places that offer nautilus sighting pretty much have to rely on trapping. Mimic octopus sighting is reported in that area but I am not sure how frequent that is. I saw one in Dumaguette, the Philippines last year.

 

[MacHeath]

Never been to Manado myself (almost made it there earlier month but plan got canceled at the last minute :-( ). Anyhow, I was told that certain resort may be able to arrange for nautilus trapping, usually from Lembeh side somewhere and they can release it at a more convenient location for you to take a picture. I believe nautilus generally live very deep down so most places that offer nautilus sighting pretty much have to rely on trapping. Mimic octopus sighting is reported in that area but I am not sure how frequent that is. I saw one in Dumaguette, the Philippines last year.

Thanks

Not sure about having one trapped, it sounds a bit nasty.
Is the animal alright with being dragged up from the depths?

So I guess the answer on the octopus is to be lucky.

 

[diver janet]

Am off to Manado, specifically Bunaken, in a couple of weeks (I can hardly wait).

Two things I would really like to see are a Nautilus and a mimic octopus.

Have any of you seen either of these in Manado? If so where and when?
Please don't say in a restaurant......

Thanks

Nautilus live at about +1000ft so the ONLY way to see them on SCUBA is for the dive operation to bait them in cages and bring them up slowly to SCUBA depth! Then they release them so the divers can see them up close, take photos & the Mike Ball dive operation we dove with in PNG then took them back to around 250' before they released them again....they said they're the prime food for triggerfish at shallower depths, so they wanted to get them back deeper before they released them.