Sphoeroides rosenblatti.
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:23 pm
Hi there, i was reading some books to identify american puffers and yesterday i recived a phone call from my LFS to said to me that they got a "colombian fresh water puffer" the first thing i though was that the fish was a Colomesus asellus, but then i arrived and i find out a very strange 8cm puffer...
by the shape of the head i knew it was an spheroides, but not a familiar species (after searching in literature and with a little help from fishbase i identify it as Sphoeroides rosenblatti)... i took it to my place and, as all spheroides are marine i put him in a 40gal high brackish end that was already home for 6 Chromis Vidris, they passed the night and everything is ok.... so, i´ve never kept an spheroides before they are quite rare... no belly, very hard marked lateral line... i would apreciate there is any recomendations or advice you could tell me
by the shape of the head i knew it was an spheroides, but not a familiar species (after searching in literature and with a little help from fishbase i identify it as Sphoeroides rosenblatti)... i took it to my place and, as all spheroides are marine i put him in a 40gal high brackish end that was already home for 6 Chromis Vidris, they passed the night and everything is ok.... so, i´ve never kept an spheroides before they are quite rare... no belly, very hard marked lateral line... i would apreciate there is any recomendations or advice you could tell me
