Recently on vacation we stopped in the dowtown denver aquarium and this guy was on the website as a new arrival so we had to sit next to him in the restraunt...by far the biggest puffer iv ever seen and iv seen some big ones..
the BIGGEST porcupine puffer iv ever seen!
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Awesome pictures and a gorgeous puffer. I'm with groovitudude though it doesn't look like a porc?
It's a porcupine, the spikes are on the back moreso than the underbelly due to its size i believe, they also have it on their website to have added this porcupine puffer to the restraunt.
That's massive. Loven the lookdowns. I've always wanted a massive tank with a couple dozen lookdowns.
There are 2 kinds of "porcs". Diodon holocantus (the common one you see everywhere that grows to around a foot) & the Diodon histrix (the one in the above pic--grows to about 3').
These are Histrix Puffer's. I work for a Aquatic Trading Company, and we have six or more of these in stock a the moment. As a matter of fact I just moved our largest(over 3') into our lookdown tank an hour ago or so =) Really cool fish and quite the personality! And very intelligent.
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Here is one of the smallest:
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Here is one of the smallest:
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