why no u.s.-puffs?
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why no u.s.-puffs?
hi,
a question i always wanted to ask: why don´t all you us-users ever keep those most beautiful us-puffers like for example all the small and medium-sized spoeroides-species? if i lived in your country that would have been my first act...!
here in northern europe there is no chance to find puffers in the sea but i´m planning for a long time now to catch some in portugal/spain, while it could be a little difficult to import them. but in the us...?
martin
ps: sorry for my bad english!
a question i always wanted to ask: why don´t all you us-users ever keep those most beautiful us-puffers like for example all the small and medium-sized spoeroides-species? if i lived in your country that would have been my first act...!
here in northern europe there is no chance to find puffers in the sea but i´m planning for a long time now to catch some in portugal/spain, while it could be a little difficult to import them. but in the us...?
martin
ps: sorry for my bad english!
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The only one I know if is Spoeroides nephelus aka Southern Puffer, which is a marine puffer from around Florida. Never heard of any other US puffers.
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Puffers: Auriglobus silus x1, Tetraodon travancoricus x1, Tetraodon turgidus x1, Tetraodon miurus x1, Tetraodon nigroviridis x2, Tetraodon baileyi x2, Tetraodon lineatus x1, Tetraodon palembangensis x1
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I know one of our Mentor members ChesapeakeSwellfish has caught some. See his post here: http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... ght=#15606
Maybe he can chime in with his experiences in local puffer fish.
Maybe he can chime in with his experiences in local puffer fish.
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oops?
at fishbase you will find this species listed for the u.s. and some more:
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Lagocephalus laevigatus native Smooth puffer Smooth puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus native Oceanic puffer Oceanic puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides annulatus native Bullseye puffer Bullseye puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides dorsalis native Marbled puffer Marbled puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides lispus native Naked puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides lobatus native Longnose puffer Longnose puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides maculatus native Northern puffer Northern puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides nephelus native Southern puffer Southern puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides pachygaster native Blunthead puffer Blunthead puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides parvus native Least puffer Least puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides spengleri native Bandtail puffer Bandtail puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides testudineus native Checkered puffer Checkered puffer
martin
ps: of course i´m only talking about seawaterspecies
at fishbase you will find this species listed for the u.s. and some more:
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Lagocephalus laevigatus native Smooth puffer Smooth puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus native Oceanic puffer Oceanic puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides annulatus native Bullseye puffer Bullseye puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides dorsalis native Marbled puffer Marbled puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides lispus native Naked puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides lobatus native Longnose puffer Longnose puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides maculatus native Northern puffer Northern puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides nephelus native Southern puffer Southern puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides pachygaster native Blunthead puffer Blunthead puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides parvus native Least puffer Least puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides spengleri native Bandtail puffer Bandtail puffer
Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae
(Puffers) Sphoeroides testudineus native Checkered puffer Checkered puffer
martin
ps: of course i´m only talking about seawaterspecies
- sassiegemstone
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I've caught a few of them while I've been fishing. They got pretty emerald green eyes.Boxermom wrote:The only one I know if is Spoeroides nephelus aka Southern Puffer, which is a marine puffer from around Florida. Never heard of any other US puffers.
I wish I knew if they could survive in an aquarium and how big I would need.
If I could just save one of these, it would make me feel so good. Most of them are left on shore to die
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Re: why no u.s.-puffs?
I have one that was caught in the local brackish waters with a cast net. It is a Spiny Boxfish. Some fish are illegal to keep but if you don't get caught, it can't hurt. I live in NE Florida.Martin Hi. wrote:hi,
a question i always wanted to ask: why don´t all you us-users ever keep those most beautiful us-puffers like for example all the small and medium-sized spoeroides-species? if i lived in your country that would have been my first act...!
here in northern Europe there is no chance to find puffers in the sea but i´m planning for a long time now to catch some in Portugal/Spain, while it could be a little difficult to import them. but in the us...?
martin
ps: sorry for my bad english!
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Any additional advice on the chilomycterus schoepfi you can give me? Does yours have like a black stripe down its eyes? Mine does. I called the Florida Game Warden and it is not illegal to catch one puffer and take it home but if you are going to collect several then you have to have a license of some sort.Puffer Queen wrote:I have caught (with licensed collector) in the Florida Keys - diodon holocanthus, diodon hystrix, chilomycterus atringa and chilomycterus schoepfi and have them in my systems.
When my hubby caught mine there was a game warden there and he checked with him first.
Re: why no u.s.-puffs?
I can't even begin to guess what species it was (and it was more years than I care to count ago), but my Marine Bio HS class was seining in Jamaica Bay at the end of the summer (Gulf Stream time) and I ended up with this little fish cupped in my hands that, at the time, I thought spit up on me, it happened so fast and then was all over. Puff, white, puff, wee tiny fish again, jump and gone before I could even react. Now I know more, I'm glad to say it was still immersed when it puffed, and I'm glad to recall that it definitely unpuffed... I've no clue what it actually was, other than it was very small (I remember it as about the size of my Valentini, which is currently about 5-1/2 cm), sort of tan-ish, and obviously white bellied. I didn't have much time to get a good look at it before it was gone.
You could feel the temperature difference of the water it came in on -- ankles were cold, hips were cold, knees were quite warm (I remember hoping it found its way back to warm water again)... It definitely wasn't a fish I'd have expected to see in the salt marsh waters of New York City.
And yes, in case you're wondering, that little fish all those years ago is the reason I'm rather obsessed today.
You could feel the temperature difference of the water it came in on -- ankles were cold, hips were cold, knees were quite warm (I remember hoping it found its way back to warm water again)... It definitely wasn't a fish I'd have expected to see in the salt marsh waters of New York City.
And yes, in case you're wondering, that little fish all those years ago is the reason I'm rather obsessed today.
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Thats would have to be the northern puffer, back many years ago they were a common food fish, and you could catch them all over long island. They're rare now, but not endangered as far as I know.
No matter how magnificent your successes or devastating your failures, the worlds' approximately 5 billion impoverished people could not possibly care less.
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