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#3 is a turgidus im 100% shure.

and i dotn think its going to get any bigger than in your picture either.

great fish

i feed him 6 days a week usually eats 2 pieces of krill.....but the day after he diddent eat he only ate a small pieces yesterday adn now today not eating at all.....hes loosing weight for shure...but hard to tell whats going on beacuse hes normally unactive and just sitting in his cave.....i dotn w...

also i know its not a abei for shure....mines got a short snout

I think it is possible that turgidus and cochinchinensis may represent variations of the same species. So far as PP says they are only distinguished by their ocellus. Fang's puffers ( M. cochinchinensis ) are supposed to have a large, target like red spot as juveniles that turns black on old puffer...

http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/User_Galleries/Myaj/2008/page12.jpg.html i saw this picture and it looks exactly like the puffer i bought as a fangi puffer...although when i saw it thouht its colouration made it look more like a turgidus.... he spends most of his time ina cave in my tan...