Puffer fish

[SourAngelfish]

I’m in Pensacola Florida right now and I was out collected washed up seaweed today as there seems to be a big storm coming and I found two little baby puffer fish. One is slightly bigger and grey, he also likes to burrow in the sand. And there’s a black one that doesn’t burrow. I know they’re puffers as I found them both puffed up on the land. I originally thought they were smoothback puffers but the darker one looks more like a least puffer and the lighter one looks a bit like a northern puffer fish. Sorry the pics suck. It sounds like a bad idea but I may end up keeping them. They seemed to be very dependent on the seaweed and now that it’s washed up they would most likely die, but I’m not sure.

 

[SourAngelfish]

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[Eva Rose]

You may need to ask reefsquad to get an exact id & best suggestions for what to do.

 

[SourAngelfish]

Help? #reefsquad

 

[SourAngelfish]

I need to decide within like 20 minutes...

 

[DSC reef]

I'm not sure on the species but I'd leave them in the ocean.

 

[SourAngelfish]

Okay I’ll go let them go

 

[SourAngelfish]

Yea I just ended up letting everything go. Even the nice macro algae I found. I would sill like to get an id on the puffers as they seem very interesting.

 

[SourAngelfish]

I don’t want to be the guy with the ten foot puffer fish wondering why I didn’t listen too the people on REEF2REEF

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I don’t want to be the guy with the ten foot puffer fish wondering why I didn’t listen too the people on REEF2REEF

10' puffer would be pretty sweet though [emoji12]

 

[Carterfish]

I️ think you have yourself at least one southern pufferfish. They often burrow in sand and are located around the gulf.