Are these not the coolest eyeballs in the animal kingdom?!?
This is a mother peacock mantis shrimp, holding her clutch of red eggs.

#stomatopod #mantisshrimp #muckdiving #underwater #scubadiving

Two very different-looking ghost pipefish.
Sometimes it can be very difficult to determine the exact species, as there’s a lot of visual overlap between halimeda, robust, and velvet.
#ghostpipefish #tulamben #tulambenbali #muckdiving #scubadiving

Flamboyant cuttlefish, at Anilao. This creature is about the side of a bumble bee. #flamboyantcuttlefish #cuttlefish #scuba #UWphoto #muckdiving 🦑

My first hairy #shrimp!!! Suuuuuper stoked to see this rare holy grail species!
The #hairyshrimp (Phycocaris simulans) aka the #AlgaeShrimp, is a nearly impossible to see tiny tiny tiny little varmint.

#phycocarissimulans #🦐 #calimari #muckdiving #tulamben #tulambenbali #bali

The Mimic Octopus - perhaps the most amazing and sought after creature in the South Pacific.
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#mimicoctopus #🐙 #octopus #thaumoctopusmimicus #lembeh #lembehstrait #muckdiving #indonesia #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater

Catch of the day!
📍Amed, Bali
#scubadiving #muckdiving #macrophotography #underwaterphotography

Found this cute little 1” #goby living on a feathery #SeaPen today while looking for something completely different. Tomorrow will be my first day not diving in 3.5 weeks - gotta head to the city to restock “supplies”🍷

#tulamben #muckdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater

fishies of lembeh, Indonesia!

#lembeh #manado #lembehstrait #lembehdiving #diving #art #illustration #indonesiadiving #turtle #stingray #shark #muckdiving

Lovely video by @Pacificklaus about SEA URCHINS and the critters that love them! #echinoday youtu.be/b2ORxEkWJ00?...

Philippines Fire Urchins and Big ass Sea cucumbers! by @PacificKlaus youtu.be/1HCQ2psb0MY?...

... it just vacuums up the prey whole, so incredibly fast it's hard to even see (6 milliseconds?). The muscular esophagus then clamps shut & digestive enzymes break the prey down.

The frogfish crawls along the floor, but it can also expel water through gill openings to jet forward.

Critters of Ambon #underwatermacro #scubadiving #indonesia #nature #wildlife #muckdiving
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The most Thanksgiving turkey-looking creature in the sea! This is the Pegasus #SeaMoth that I shot last week in #tulamben. Super easy to shoot, but impossible to shoot well - I still don’t have any shot of them that I’d call “good”.
#pegasusseamoth #Eurypegasusdraconis #muckdiving #tulambenbali

reading replies from this person and i have no clue what fucking muckdiving you have to be doing to encounter a terf who ever discourses on that shit

This is why divers fly across the world to Dauin, Philippines 🇵🇭 Critter Republic

Black sand. Tiny critters. Endless wow. 🐌🦐
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#scubadiving
#scubalife
#divinglife
#underwaterworld
#oceanlovers
#marinelife
#underwaterphotography
#dauin
#dauinphilippines
#dauindiving
#macrodiving
#muckdiving
#ph

Muck-diving magic 🐍✨ Spotted a crocodile snake eel on a night dive and captured this stealth predator in action.

👉 scubahanknyc.com/2023/01/14/t...

#scuba #muckdiving #underwater #photography #scubadiving #macrolife

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