Sing it !!
I am sooooo sooooo jealous! I am always intrigued by groupers, clown fish, blue tangs, and especially squirrel fish. Angels are so neat in the way they come right up to you if you make that ripping sound with the velcro on your BCD. And I am fascinated with tube worms, and generally spend some time waving water at them with my fingertips so they pop back into the brain coral! I think those flounders that hide themselves on the bottom are cool too, with both eyes on one side of their head like a weird Picasso painting, but since Steve Irwin's death, I will be more wary of ones that hide in the sand. We used to go to Stingray City in the Caymans, but I don't know if I would be comfortable with that right now, despite what the "experts" say.
One of the all-time cutest things I've ever seen was a baby octopus curled up and trying to nap in a smokestack on a wreck dive. Oh and baby sea turtles with their little smiling faces.
In case you hadn't noticed, I miss diving.
Now I haven't tried that ripping sound with my BCD, but I can get the clown fish to come up to me when I rub my fingers together (it looks like I'm doing the gesture for "give me some money" or "it's expensive"). I love tube worms only I call them Christmas Tree worms. I make them pop back in the coral, too. Also, the spaghetti worms, if you gently stroke or pull one strand, the whole slides back into it's hiding place. Cool!
When I was learning to dive and practicing my fin pivots, I lay on a flounder! As I rose the first time, it scurried forward but not very far and I lay on it again. After that I had trouble doing the pivot because I was playing with the fish!
I forgot to list the octopi that I've seen. But no babies.
I was doing a wreck dive in Bali and the guides put a relatively inexperience diver with us. JT and I spent a lot of the dive pulling him up away from the floor and away from the sting rays down there. He almost swam into them several times.
For me one of the saddest parts of that is that it adds to a prejudice I've developed. Every time I've been swimming with someone from his country, one of their nationals has had to be rescued. I don't know what it is, usually they've seen someone younger or more wimpier doing something which takes training and they've attempted it too, only without the training. The worst was when three early elementary kids were playing and treading water in the deep end of a pool. The guy must have assumed it was shallow because the kids were "obviously" too young to be able to swim well. So, without thinking, he walked off the side of the pool. The guy had no idea how to swim at all! He was unconcious when we pulled him up, but started breathing on his own and was revived. PTL! Now, I've not had to rescue everyone of this nationality, but just one from each group when I've been around them. It gets tiring and you want to say, "Okay, all _____ STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER!"