Some of its relatives are Unusual facts The color of an octopus can be brown, red, or white. The size of an octopus can be about 24-36 inches. An octopus looks like a spider in the water.
Most octopuses live singly in small rocky crevices or other protected places on the ocean bottom.
They catch their food-primarily shellfish and small fish by ensnaring it with a suckered arm as it swims past. It eats crabs, fish,and other marine creatures. They eat their prey by biting them and spraying the wounds with poison before devouring their prey. Their enemies are humans, eels, lion fish, and other octopuses . It sprays toxic ink at its enemies to confuse them.