Bluespot Toby ID

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Bluespot Toby ID

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I got a blue spotted toby from a local reefer. Poor thing was starving but I've fattened him up good now. I was waiting for him to get a little weight on & see if he would color up, which he did. I have been loooking over a lot of different pics of the Solandri & Papuan but he doesn't have any of the tan or orange they have, just lots of blue spots everywhere (belly, face, tail) & blue stripes around his eyes. I can't post a pic right now, because I can't seem to get my camera to link to the computer.
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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Found this on a Japanese website. The picture was taken in Guam.

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Mine doesn't have any orange though & the lines on the face don't connect across the forehead.
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Interesting! I wonder where your toby came from?
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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Try this link:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... id=234&N=0

Or this one:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tobies.htm

Here's another good site with Toby's
http://trainingspectrum.com/scuba/photo ... /index.htm
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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is the caudal fin transparent or patterned?
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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Tail has blue spots all over it. None of those pics have my puffer.
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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sounds like what i used to have, i could never get a pos id either.

like this?

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spots on the tail, no orange, no "false eye" spot, lines on eyes only, don't extend between?
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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DRRT's puffer: C. solandri, likely male. How long is he?

A similar one is shown in "World Atlas of marine fishes" by Kuiter & Debelius.
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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That looks like him! Why do I see so many pics of solandri with orange?
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@edmlfc1: beware, the site liveaquaria has (very) often wrong IDs for non-standard fishes.
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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This solandri-margaritata-papua species group is not entirely comprehensive. There seems to be a lot of variation of the coloration (also depending on location, these appear (!) like Micronesian ones), but also transitions between them. Having the origin of these puffers would be a great help to clarify that.

I'm just putting it in the current taxonomic scheme, which would in opinion clearly says C. solandri.
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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Mine came from a suburb of Chicago. ;)
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Re: Bluespot Toby ID

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It was about 3 in and i had had it for over a year and a half.
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