This puffer has circling slender lines that are its major characteristic. A well fed specimen may display a red tone. This puffer will grow to over a foot in length.This puffer, in its natural habitat, frequents sand flats and sand slopes and requires caves and crevices to hide and rest in.This personable fish will be shy when first introduced to the aquarium but will become quite bold.Feed this fish 2x per day a diet of chooped clams, shrimp, frozen carnivore and herbivore preparations.The family of Puffers is a distinct family marked by their ability to ingest water into the ventral portion of their body causing them to blow up for protection. These fish also have incredibly strong plated mouth structures that are used to bite and crush even the toughest shells.Almost all puffers are slow swimming fishes with powerful jaws made up of fused teeth feeding on a variety of slow moving and often hard animals. Also have a poison in their skin, tissues and organs. The poison is an alkaloid nerve poison.They will do well in a fish-only aquarium. Keep only one per tank.Puffers have bodies that are very rounded and often tapered at the mouth and caudal (tail) fin regions. Color varies, but many species have light spots and or spines.Feeds mainly on mollusks (hard, powerful teeth enable them to break through mollusk shells); also fed on other invertebrates including sponges and coral.Photograph by saltwaterfish.com member Hefner413
