New Porky!

[andywg]

I am currently leaning towards believing this little fellow is a burrfish rather than another porcupinefish (still Family Diodontidae) but with the space to grow him out, we just couldn't leave him in the shop.

He is currently about 1" at the moment, so has plenty of growing to do before we see how he gets on in the bigger tank.

So without further ado, the pictures!:

On the pic above you can really see the spikes which come out from just above the eyes.

There was also a baby porky even smaller than this one, their eyes just look huge at this age!

 

[CFC]

awww funny looking little fella

 

[angelmouse]

ahh such a cutie, the eyes just add to the appeal. be good to see what he looks like when adult
regards Angel

 

[kewskills]

Awesome little fella

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Awesome little fella

Gah, I love him lol. How much he set you back ?, he looks really cute on outside but a devil on inside

 

[three-fingers]

That is one of the cutest fish I have ever seen, nice find .

 

[cheesy feet]

hehe, his eyes are bigger than his body.
Should look amazing when he's grown a bit.

 

[puppyjess123]

CUTE!

 

[paul_219]

Very nice porky. WOnderful

 

[mark7616]

Looks sweet mate I would say its a tiny Chilomycterus schoepfi is that what you was leaning towards r did you think it was the Chilomycterus antillarum although at 1" long it would be very hard to tell the difference.

 

[Amunet]

Holy crap, that is frackin adorable!!!

 

[andywg]

Looks sweet mate I would say its a tiny Chilomycterus schoepfi is that what you was leaning towards r did you think it was the Chilomycterus antillarum although at 1" long it would be very hard to tell the difference.

I had only really narrowed it down to the Chilomycterus genus. The differences between many of the species from there are, as you say, somewhat difficult to tell on such a small specimen.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

WANT ONE!!!!! oh what a beautiful fishy

 

[SJ2K]

Superb, ive often had the urge to set up a marine FO to keep one of these guys.

 

[Esfa]

WANT!