Orange Tail Fiji Puffer or Jewel Puffer?

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Orange Tail Fiji Puffer or Jewel Puffer?

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Are the Orange Tail Fiji Puffer and the Jewel Puffer... exactly the same fish except for the difference in spot coloration?


http://www.petco.com/product/104507/Ora ... uffer.aspx

http://www.fish-species.org.uk/puffer-f ... r-fish.jpg

Thinking about getting one.. if I could only find a LFS that carried them..
All I could find was a vallentini and just a spotted sharpnose.
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Haven't a clue. I just wanted to say good luck in getting one and if you do please post pictures!
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Sorry to drag up a slightly older post, but what did you get?

I am trying to decide between a toby or a lurker at the moment and have had lots of noise for a Congo and nothing for tobys yet :lol:
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I have had experience with Tobys in the LFS where I worked in the past. They are cautious for puffers, and not nearly so wide/round as puffer owners expect. However, they are quite cute in their own(pointy nosed, easily spooked) way, and are honestly the ONLY puffer genus(other than, on RARE occasions, Porcs) which are likely to take to a reef tank; yes, you may be able, with significant caution, keep an adorable puffer with your valuable corals... if it's a particularly good natured Toby, particularly the valentini.
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I already have a marine reef tankand a beadlet nem coolwater marine nano. I have a spare that's going to be either toby marine based or for a lurker like the Congo.
I love the Canthigaster sp and am torn at the mo.
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I would go out on a limb and call that the C. Janthinoptera.
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^The first puffer, that is. I'm not sure on the second.
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Those look like 2 different species.
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