Blue Porcupine Puffer
Also keep in mind the trigger will grow much faster than the porcupine puffer so you ll probably want to start out with a porcupine puffer much larger than the trigger.
Blue porcupine puffer. Updated august 6 2019 author. It may be aggressive at times nipping the fins of tank mates and leaving a circular hole as its mark. On the other hand the porcupine fish and most other species of their family are thick and large external spines while their beaked teeth remain arranged in just one row.
The tank is occupied with a long horned cowfish porcupine puffer dogface puffer queen angel and blue spotted puffer. A 180 gallon or larger fish only aquarium with a good protein skimmer is a suitable home. Approx 8 5 inches rare and gorgeous.
Records exist anywhere and everywhere that marine waters are warmed by the equatorial sun from south africa to japan and east towards mexico. The pelagic pufferfish is about as widespread a tropical fish as there is. If you are in the nj nyc area check it out in person.
Rare blue porcupine puffer fish most porcupine puffers diodon holocanthus are a shade of brown yellow but absolutely fish currently has a rare blue specimen for sale. What s more the puffer is an irresistible 1 5 juvenile. The spiney porcupine puffer fish is an odd looking fish that has the obvious ability to inflate with water when threatened.
Blue porcupine puffer diodon eydouxii hawaii. The pelagic porcupine puffer diodon hystrix is a mysterious fish that is a gorgeous steely blue when young but little is known about this mysterious species. Uploaded by zoa collector on 2017 03 10.
I quickly removed the dogface from the tank and placd him on a. This dogface has never attacked anything before so i am doubting their compatibility. The puffer fish has thin spines visible only when they inflate.
Porcupine puffers can also inflate with air if removed from the water and this can damage them internally. Once the boxfish entered the tank the dogface immediately attacked it. In the aquarium world the blue porcupine puffer has only appeared a handful of times.
That is if it hasn t already sold. The porcupine puffer lacks pelvic fins but has learned to use the pectoral fins to move about. That should also help from a cost standpoint as large porcupine puffers are relatively inexpensive and small picasso triggers are much cheaper than large ones.