What the heck is that???

[Waffle toaster]

So I was at a fish store looking at the fish, when I saw this thing.















It looked so strange to me. Does anyone know what the heck it is?

 

[Unicorn1]

It's a puffer fish!!! I'm not an expert on puffers by any stretch, but it could be a full grown Green Spotted Puffer.

 

[Waffle toaster]

I didn't know that pufferfish could have teeth. Also, this was in the same tank as it.


Anyone know what that is?

 

[azmodan]

Looks like you were in the salt water section.

 

[cmaxwell538]

It's definitely some kind of puffer. Our LFS has one as well in their 500g display tank. Looks exactly the same!

 

[ddodad]

From what I know from being a scuba diver is that for sure those are salt water. I think it's a dogface puffer and a snowflake eel to be exact

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

From what I know from being a scuba diver is that for sure those are salt water. I think it's a dogface puffer and a snowflake eel to be exact

Correct!

 

[bettaowner]

The puffer looks like the saltwater fish known as arothron hispidus. The eel is indeed the snowflake eel ( echidna nebulosa)

 

[Jsk8tes]

I wonder how long they've had that puffer? Are their teeth supposed to look like that?

I've only read a little about them, and decided against it due to tank size limits when I started a saltwater tank a while back. Had to break it down and rehome but Love these social fellas! Maybe one day...

 

[Buu]

From what I know from being a scuba diver is that for sure those are salt water. I think it's a dogface puffer and a snowflake eel to be exact

Hello fello diver! Lol I run into you alot on these threads! All this is correct- love dog face puffers =P (to look at. Not as pets. Never had SW so couldn't input there!)

 

[bettaowner]

Puffer fish have beaks like parrotfish and triggers. In order to prevent it from growing too long, you need to feed them snails and clams.

 

[ddodad]

Hello fello diver! Lol I run into you alot on these threads! All this is correct- love dog face puffers =P (to look at. Not as pets. Never had SW so couldn't input there!)

There are quite a few divers around. I also dive salt and keep fresh water tanks

 

[Waffle toaster]

I think it was a display tank, because I don't think they were for sale, and all of the display tanks there had fully grown fish. The oscars in the cichlid display tank were almost a foot long!