Burrfish Puffer Pics...

[salt nate]

I just got this rad little bridled(thanks AquaKnight) burrfish. Hes about an inch and a half. Hes eating about 8 mysis shrimp a day.
Any body have a burrfish with some feedback?

 

[salt nate]

 

[ponyta810]

it kind of looks like a porcupine puffer on roids

 

[salt nate]

I think he's a little too small to be "roiden out" on us

 

[aquaknight]

Yea, still a bit skinny. Keep up the feedings and let us know what other foods he takes to.
Soon enough, you'll have a little piggy on your hands too

 

[salt nate]

is that yours? that looks like a bridled burrfish, like mine(but bigger)

 

[aquaknight]

Yep, he's my Spiny Burrfish -- Chilomycterus schoepfi. We caught him off Bonita Springs in the surf, the size of a pea, on Mother's Day (May 11, 2008), and has grown over 3.5" in 7 months!

 

[salt nate]

thats cool, what tank's he in?
I live up in melbourne beach, I caught some damsel like fish with stripes and blenny-like fish around the coquina reefs here. Nothing really great looking

 

[aquaknight]

He's in my 55gal QT with my Lei Trigger:
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=337588

 

[truefishman]

very cool i like the spines

 

[salt nate]

AK- yeah, I saw that thread, very cool sargassum