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| Hi Kelly, While in the grassbeds yesterday, my wife caught this little guy and put it into her tank, of course you popped into mind when I saw "puffer"...lol I thought you might enjoy the photo and be able to tell me what species it is. Its just a bit bigger than an inch long which hopefully means it has some time to grow before my wife is forced to put it back in the ocean as her tank is only 20 gallons, and it sure is not going into my reef tank...lol 
oh, and if you ever need a blurry photo of a fishes tail, I have lots of them...lol Chuck
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| Chuck, Thanks for sharing the picture of the canthigaster puffer - I believe it is a papau. According to my texts and fishbase.com - They can get to be 10 cm, so looks like your little guy will be with you for a long time......be careful, it starts with one puffer, then there are two and before you know it - you'll be building 1000 gallon ponds  These puffers are found: "Indo-West Pacific: Maldives to eastern New Guinea, north to the Philippines and Palau, south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia." "Occurs singly or in pairs in clear, coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward reefs." I have lots of fins, tails, and back ends if you ever need some  Thanks for sharing!
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| Thanks Kelly, the wife will be glad to hear that news. She gets so attached to each fish. oh, and that clam just visible in the photo, I had to lay claim to it and put it into the reef tank as I had noticed it will not open now because the little goomer nips at its mantle when it does try to open. Should have thought of that yesterday when she added the fish. Chuck
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| Chuck, Make sure there are no sponges - live ones or ones covering powerhead intakes as they become favorite chew toys as well. Keep us updated on "your" new friend.
Kelly
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| Gotcha, thankfully her tank tends to be my "experimental" container..and has only basic, stripped down live rock, her little sebae anemone and of course her pair of "nemos". Have to say though "her" little grass bed looks like in due time, it may actualy become a grass bed, by such "experiments" I have found that the paddle weed would make a great addition to my reef tank's sandbed, which I just added a bit of it yesterday, the other grass requires far too much organics in the sand which I refuse to deal with in my reef tank, her tank, plenty of such "dirty" sand though..lol Chuck
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Charles-
These little puffers are called "tobys' in the hobby. The more famous one is the valentini puffer, but the spotted toby like the one you've identified is also a beauty.
They are very personabile fish, but that have many traits of big puffers. They chew on lots of stuff, they sample everything, and they nip fins of fish w/ long flowly,showy fins. The cool news is every fish is an individual and some fish can be more rambincious and othe rmuch less so.
You discovered their love of clams, but also expect sponge, featherworms, and anything soft to be sampled more than once.
Enjoy the fish
frank
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Thanks for the info Frank, have already noted its "taste everything' habit. As you mentioned, I see alot of "toby" species doing their growing up in and near the grass beds, I can not help but to have puffers catch my eye now and I blame Kelly for that..lol, I did see one the other day that I would love to have gotten a photo of, it was a "toby" looking type, probably in the six inch range, but its coloration / pattern really stood out, amost looked like a six line wrasse but with alot more lines than six. I was tempted to catch it just to show Kelly. But it was a bit too large for any tank that I could hold it in for a few days. Thats the "problem" with being in the most species diverse area, you do alot of "oooh oooh!!! Thats beautifull!!"... oh, and alot of "what the heck is that!" also...lolChuck
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| Chuck, "Will work for puffers" I have 3200+ gallons so a six inch puffer wouldn't be a problem  Look forward to more pics. And as always, thanks for sharing.
Kelly
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| To be honest Kelly, If I was rich and it wasnt a permit nightmare to do so, I would love to spend my day catching and collecting specimens to send to everyone. Being able to just ship a large rock to Dr. Ron and ask him "okay, what did you find?" would make adding to my hitch hiker page alot easier...lol Chuck
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