Please help id this little puffer

[JFishburn]

Hello does anyone know what the common name for this puffer is? Anything i should know about him? Is he going to eat all my corals?

 

[JFishburn]

try this one more time

 

[MBuck]

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Hope this works for you!! He appears to be a type of dog faced, which get about 15"...if that's the case, he'll have a party with your snails, crabs, shrimp, and corals, eventually....

Nice puffer by the way!!

 

[JFishburn]

I cought this little guy in the intracoastal waterway down here in FL and there were tons of them. None of these were any bigger than three inches or so. It could be that they are all juveniles but I have a hunch that they dont get much larger. Thanks for the response. Any more ideas??

 

[XtrmCHoPZ]

THat is definitely NOT a dogfaced puffer. Dogfaces only come from the PACIFIC, you said it came from Florida. There are many different species of puffer in the ATlantic but no dogfaces, try fishbase or wait for another response.

 

[mm949]

its actually sold as a brackish puffer for FW....little guy has BIG balls...will eat everything including fish....no go for REEF...sorry...stays small 6"-...

 

[JFishburn]

Wow really? he seems very timid and spends a lot of time burrowed in the sand. He hasnt shown any interest in any of the crabs or snails in the tank so far.

 

[Dischirm]

green spotted puffer?? I'm not sure of that, but seems to definately be a brackish water puffer.

 

[oicu2]

You have a green spotted puffer. They start off in fresh water, but in order for them to stay healthy they need to eventually be moved to brackish water. They will get up to 6 in and will live up to 20 years in brackish water. Here is a picture of mine. I puchased him at Wal-Mart over a year ago and he is about 3 inches long. He lives in a brackish water tank with my Mono and freshwater moray eel.

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[JFishburn]

I really dont think it is the same. I have seen the freshwater puffers you speak of in walmart before and looks very different from this guy. I live very close to the inlet so the water is not brackish. There were porcupine puffers in the same spot.

 

[Hunter21]

Although I saw that green spotted puffer at a new walmart they built near my house and asked them for info about him(big mistake on my part) the employee said they live in freshwater, and eat flake food! lol Well petsmart sells dwarf puffers, no bigger than a dime and they said puffers that aren't saltwater are brackish puffers. so I knew the lady from walmart didn't know what she was talking about, but then again, it's a new walmart, so she prolly was just hired into the dept, not really to give advice.

Erin

 

[The Fish Finder]

These are the alantic puffer's that i know that i collect in ny. This may help you or maby not. I copied it from my list of fish i collect up here.

Web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum)
Striped burrfish (Chilomycterus schoepfi)
Porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix)
Smooth puffer (Lagocephalus laevigatus)
Northern puffer (Sphoeroides maculatus)
Bandtail puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri)

 

[oicu2]

Freshwater puffers usually start off in freshwater as juvenilles. As they mature, they will move closer to the ocean into brackish water. Most employees at WalMart will not know this because they are not trained to know every detail of their fish. It is up to the employee to go further and learn more on the fish they sell. I will agree that my fish does have differences to your. There is another puffer similar to the green spotted called the eight figured puffer. It needs are the same as the green spotted puffer.

 

[oicu2]

By the way, my puffer just loves river shrimp in the can and live ghost shrimp. They need to east crunchy food to keep their teeth from getting too long. Yes, they have teeth. It is shaped like a beak. At least mine has them. I'm not sure of the other types of puffers.

 

[JFishburn]

Fish Finder thanks a lot after looking you at your list I was positive that the puffer was from the Sphoeroides genus. after a little further research I have Found it at last the Sphoeroides testudineus or checkered puffer. Check it out here http://research.myfwc.com/gallery/image_details.asp?id=9671

Now does anyone know anything about the checkered puffer? lol

 

[0pius]

it does kinda look like a takifugu ocellatus puffer which if memory serves is very difficult to raise in a aquarium environment, as they sometimes just stop eating and die.