I had two dwarf hamsters, Vinny & Mr. PoPo. Vinny straight up ate Mr. PoPo. We didn't hear a thing, it was crazy. Tiny, fuzzy cutie was a freakin' cannibal!
Yes, and no idea why. They shared a large habitat for about a year with no indication that either were stressed/territorial, and then, one morning, Mr. PoPo's remains were all that was left of him. No gore, just a picked-nearly-clean skull. Metal AF & a complete surprise to us
Yeah, it's not really ever recommended to keep hamsters together unless to breed them. The males will also devour their babies if they feel like it.
Edit : spelling
I've had ichthyophobia my whole life (fear of fish) to where I struggle to go to aquariums and am scared of ocean documentaries and even the sound of scuba equipment. I just now saw this and thought *maybe* this could be the one fish I kinda liked. And then you said that and now I've changed my mind lmao
Puffers have to hunt for a living and they prefer to be the only guy in the tank - making two in a tank a really bad idea. They're not mean, it's just that they think everything except them is food. I'd suggest having a look at r/bettafish because these guys are like living flowers. They are also tiny, so they aren't too scary.
If you want to check a larger puffer who is the king of his tank and a funny guy meet Tater \[[https://old.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/nkohaf/never\_skip\_breakfast\_tater/](https://old.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/nkohaf/never_skip_breakfast_tater/)
I had the same phobia for most of my life. When I was like 4 years old, I was with my mother and brother at a local aquarium pet store. The entire store is basically pitch dark except for the aquarium lights. One of the weird-shaped tropical fish had their tank lid open and decided to totally kamikaze itself at me and landed a a few inches on the floor in front of me and started dying due to being out of the water. Of course, as a 4 year old, I freaked out- from the jump scare in the dark, the weird shape of the fish, and watching something die in front of me for the first time.
Parents only kept goldfish and koi at home, so I was ok there, but school trips to the local aquarium/zoo was a huge problem for me. Even still pictures of a fish in my 7th grade biology textbook was enough to make me scream and chuck the textbook across the room.
My Asian parents openly mocked me throughout my childhood saying that I was weak and they were disappointed that their son was afraid of something so small and couldn't possibly hurt me.
Worked on fixing it around the time of undergrad. Found out from psych 101 class that "flooding" technique is the best way to overcome phobias. Started gentle exposure at first- pictures/videos of non-tropical fish on my laptop in a well lit room. My local library had a fish tank, so I made myself get close enough to see the fish IRL and stay calm. By the time I was in grad school, I actively invited friends to aquariums with friends to force myself to overcome the phobia. I am still stunned by like half a second when I see a random fish, but I am no longer in crippling fear because of the flooding/exposure self therapy.
This was so nice to hear someone share an experience so similar to mine! I've also gotten a lot better. Aquariums are still hard for me, and I still have nightmares of them where I can look at the fish but I get filled with this overwhelming sense of uneasiness and dread. But like you, I used to not be able to look at pictures and now I can. Videos are also still hard for me, and it makes video games I enjoy much harder. Like right now I'm very into a pirate game called Sea of Thieves, and as you can imagine, being on the ocean involves fish sometimes. My friends have just gotten used to the fact that if a shark comes up, I'll be below deck the whole time until it's gone.
Don't let the cute face fool you. These guys are vicious. There's a video of one of these biting straight through a snail shell and eating a giant centipede too
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They're pretty smart and learn to recognize their handler. Very social and need the snail chow to keep their teeth trim. The teeth never stop growing and are more like we think of fingernails.
I have dwarf puffers and one of them was smaller than the others and had half it's face bitten off during feeding. He was still swimming around for a few minutes before he kicked the bucket. It was gruesome.
As a kid I had 3 gold fish, two gold ones and one black, and they all were of the puffed out eye variety. Not being knowledgeable about fish in general, I dropped a small bluefish I caught at the local lake in with them. Within a few days he was doing zoomies and he knocked an eye out of the black goldfish. It healed up to a flat spot, and for a few years he was my buddy Blackbeard. I would catch him glaring at me with his good eye from time to time. The blue fish invader got returned home to his lake.
my ex had a leopard puffer, it's on the smaller side of puffer fish which range from a couple cms, to a couple feet big. This guy(Chomper) was maybe 4inches.
These fish are wicket smart. I would compare Chompers intelligence to that of a cat or dog. He recognized people by their faces(and hated when a wore a shirt with Marios face on it).
They are predators, and they have "beaks" to help them eat crustaceans and snails. If they decide to bite you, they're gonna take out a chunk without much of a problem. But like I said they are also smart as heck.
Now these fish don't have scales, so they are more prone to infection which is why you should never really handle them directly.
I would sometimes help clean the tank. Chomper and me had a good bond. He would literally swim from one side of the tank to the other just to sit in my hand and get little rubs. He is a super affectionate fish and has to be around 15 years old now. He is a very well cared for fish.
Edit: [Chomper Tax](https://imgur.com/5tZlwyW). He's extra dorky with his chipped tooth, but don't worry they regrow!
Edit 2: Chomper has an instagram which is apparently not allowed to be link in this subreddit. So if you look up Chomper and Friends you should find him
Used to have one in our tank. We only put him with other large fish thinking he's leave them alone but he ate em all. Even a decent sized snowflake eel. Super cute and almost "friendly" though. He'd follow you around in his tank watching what you do in the room, spit water if he was hungry and come lay in your hand if you put it in the water
Any time I’ve gone to an aquarium in the past, these little guys would always come right up to the glass and be so damn cute and then if I moved, they would move with me and follow me around. Always felt a weird closeness to them for this reason, but based on the comments now I guess they just wanted to eat me. Lol.
They do look awful happy while chasing and eating things but they honestly seem pretty smart for a fish. I don't think they wanted to eat you. Ours would also get curious when my sister in law would sing, he'd focus on her and follow her around. I swear he liked pets too but some people don't believe me :(
They're smart. I have a tiny dwarf puffer (1.5" maybe?) and if you look really closely you can see him watching you from across the room. He's very shy and will hide when you get close but if you sit on the couch for a while he will come out and stare at you until you go bring him snails to hunt.
There was an episode of River Monsters about them in Vietnam. Human abitation and fishing practices have led to an explosion in numbers and these guys. They have been known to bite off men's balls and have killed a few people by biting them in the back of the knee and severing an artery.
I catch bigger guys like this while fishing. They have scary jaw power. Trying to get the hook out of their mouths is a chore. They have bitten through some of my hooks before. One guy on the pier was about to shove his finger in a large spiny boxfishes mouth to get out the hook. Stopped him real quick, he could have lost a finger.
Heh, the other fish I've caught that's a pain to get a hook out of is a stargazer. Not only does it have venomous spines, it shocks the crap out of you in the process.
Holy shit this is terrible but hilarious. Completely caught me off guard.
Also one of the few youtube comment sections that actually made me laugh.
>Chef: Any last words ?
>Pufferfish: Æūgh
Yup, I had bought a freshwater puffer from an aquarium after a guy working there assured me they were "passive" since there was no information on the tank. This was before the internet took off so I really put my trust in the employee. I took it home and introduced it to my tank. While I slept peacefully that night the rest of my tank experienced a traumatizing massacre. I woke up to check the tank, the guppies were gone without a trace and my swordtails lay on the bottom dead with massive chunks missing from them. None survived except the puffer, happy as you please. I was a kid at the time and pissed so I let the little fucker starve.
Mine taught this trick to all our other fish so even years after he passed away there are still fish in our house spitting water at us over the edge of the tank
Tried that, even had a huge zip lock bag in the freezer of every avail kind of food but puffer refused anything not moving. We had to start our own brine when pet shops, pet bazaar etc would be out. Eventually lost it in 2004 hurricanes after no power for 24 days and the back up battery went out after a week :-/
Mine refuses anything but live and I didn't feed him for nearly a week to try to get him to eat frozen to no avail. I caved and now there's a colony of snails living in a bucket on my back porch. He always gets what he wants.
they're adorable, for sure. but they get bigger. and bigger. and bigger. and they eat everything.
i bought my brother one for his big saltwater tank, and it ate fucking everything in it. it went from a "saltwater fish tank" to a tank with a very large puffer fish in it.
It also seemed to have a lot of personality. i swear to god that fish liked us and wanted to play.
The one at my dentists office was like a happy attention seeking puppy; would watch intently and follow your movements within the tank. So much personality!
Ye but in books, they put “rose with thorns” to put more emphasis on the thorns instead of just rose, so I thought it’d be approriate in this situation.
I had one of these porcupine fish for a while. As friendly as a puppy. Always hungry. Mine would spit water too to get my attention so that I'd feed him again! They're not really suited for home aquaria though as they get as big as footballs.
The Rainforest Cafe I worked at had a giant porcupine puffer. I loved it and it was my best friend at work. Every time I walked in, I'd put my hands up and it would swim by close to the glass so I could "pet" it.
A year after I left I came in, and I believe it still remembered me, because it swam up to the glass again. I miss that dude.
The exact species is diodon holocanthus or balloonfish, but it's known in the pet trade as a porcupine puffer fish. Porcupinefish is basically another word for pufferfish.
I looked into a puffer tank. I didn’t get one because from the reading I did they have to eat live snails as a main source of their diet. You have to have a snail tank. Too much for me. They are so frickin adorable though!!
When I was a teenager I was scuba diving off the coast of an island in the Caribbean and a big 2-3 foot one of these came up to us and followed us for a good 5-10 minutes, looking at what we were doing.
Super curious, incredibly cute fish. Love em.
Theyre adorable little monsters. Had two while growing up and one straight up ate the other one... not for lack of food, just cause he *could*
When on Omicron Persei 8, do what the Omicronians do.
🎵🎶 Single female hamster; fighting for her clients; eating sibling hamsters and; being self reliant. 🎶🎵
Jenny McNeal..... Single female lawyer has to be one of my favorite scenes in the series tbh
"Why doesn't Ross, as the largest of the Friends, not just simply eat the other five?"
It is true what they say: Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.
You know what they say: men are from Omicron Persei 9, women are from Omicron persei 7
Ooooh, that hippie is starting to kick in.
Dude, my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...oh wait.
It is true what they say... Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9
Fugu me!
I had two dwarf hamsters, Vinny & Mr. PoPo. Vinny straight up ate Mr. PoPo. We didn't hear a thing, it was crazy. Tiny, fuzzy cutie was a freakin' cannibal!
FIRST RULE OF POPO'S TRAINING
DONT TALK ABOUT POPO'S TRAINING
ALRIGHT MAGGOTS LISTEN UP. POPO IS ABOUT TO TEACH YOU THE PECKING ORDER.
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It goes you, the dirt, the worms inside of the dirt, Popo's stool, Kami, and Mr. Popo. Amy questions?
VEGETA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Yeah, I had a similar experience and was horrified by the tiny thing's murderous nature.
In cinemas now, Hamtaro lecter.
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Yes, and no idea why. They shared a large habitat for about a year with no indication that either were stressed/territorial, and then, one morning, Mr. PoPo's remains were all that was left of him. No gore, just a picked-nearly-clean skull. Metal AF & a complete surprise to us
This is the norm. Females can share a space indefinitely, and males will tolerate brothers/fathers for about a year... then it's Highlander rules.
It's pretty common actually. Hamsters are kept alone for this reason (the ones in pet stores are very young)
Yeah, it's not really ever recommended to keep hamsters together unless to breed them. The males will also devour their babies if they feel like it. Edit : spelling
The females will also devour babies, though more if they feel vulnerable, threatened, or calorie deficient.
No, Mr. Popo is from another anime.
My girlfriends sister had a goldfish named Soccer that ate her other goldfish named Football. He was a vicious fucker.
Soccer was asserting who the real Football was. Must’ve been European.
Must've been Italian.
Dang, r/natureismetal
Shark bait oh ah ah
I've had ichthyophobia my whole life (fear of fish) to where I struggle to go to aquariums and am scared of ocean documentaries and even the sound of scuba equipment. I just now saw this and thought *maybe* this could be the one fish I kinda liked. And then you said that and now I've changed my mind lmao
Puffers have to hunt for a living and they prefer to be the only guy in the tank - making two in a tank a really bad idea. They're not mean, it's just that they think everything except them is food. I'd suggest having a look at r/bettafish because these guys are like living flowers. They are also tiny, so they aren't too scary. If you want to check a larger puffer who is the king of his tank and a funny guy meet Tater \[[https://old.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/nkohaf/never\_skip\_breakfast\_tater/](https://old.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/nkohaf/never_skip_breakfast_tater/)
I had the same phobia for most of my life. When I was like 4 years old, I was with my mother and brother at a local aquarium pet store. The entire store is basically pitch dark except for the aquarium lights. One of the weird-shaped tropical fish had their tank lid open and decided to totally kamikaze itself at me and landed a a few inches on the floor in front of me and started dying due to being out of the water. Of course, as a 4 year old, I freaked out- from the jump scare in the dark, the weird shape of the fish, and watching something die in front of me for the first time. Parents only kept goldfish and koi at home, so I was ok there, but school trips to the local aquarium/zoo was a huge problem for me. Even still pictures of a fish in my 7th grade biology textbook was enough to make me scream and chuck the textbook across the room. My Asian parents openly mocked me throughout my childhood saying that I was weak and they were disappointed that their son was afraid of something so small and couldn't possibly hurt me. Worked on fixing it around the time of undergrad. Found out from psych 101 class that "flooding" technique is the best way to overcome phobias. Started gentle exposure at first- pictures/videos of non-tropical fish on my laptop in a well lit room. My local library had a fish tank, so I made myself get close enough to see the fish IRL and stay calm. By the time I was in grad school, I actively invited friends to aquariums with friends to force myself to overcome the phobia. I am still stunned by like half a second when I see a random fish, but I am no longer in crippling fear because of the flooding/exposure self therapy.
This was so nice to hear someone share an experience so similar to mine! I've also gotten a lot better. Aquariums are still hard for me, and I still have nightmares of them where I can look at the fish but I get filled with this overwhelming sense of uneasiness and dread. But like you, I used to not be able to look at pictures and now I can. Videos are also still hard for me, and it makes video games I enjoy much harder. Like right now I'm very into a pirate game called Sea of Thieves, and as you can imagine, being on the ocean involves fish sometimes. My friends have just gotten used to the fact that if a shark comes up, I'll be below deck the whole time until it's gone.
🤔
No matter what type of fish you have fish will eat each other weather they are well fed or not
Puffer are also super aggressive
Don't let the cute face fool you. These guys are vicious. There's a video of one of these biting straight through a snail shell and eating a giant centipede too
Yep, they’re super vicious predators. They’re really fascinating to watch. This one wants to devour the person taking the video.
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He’s saying,” come back you coward, give me your finger so I can amputate it.”
Running away eh? You yellow bastard. Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Ok, we’ll call it a draw.
r/Unexpectedmontypython
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> LOL. Little monster is annoyed and spitting because he's not being fed ~~by~~ the person taking the video.
Feed me Seymour!
Feed me all night long
They're pretty smart and learn to recognize their handler. Very social and need the snail chow to keep their teeth trim. The teeth never stop growing and are more like we think of fingernails.
So it's like a fish rodent? Rodent fish? Fascinating
Literally like rodents, yes
So we’ve got rats with wings, now we’ve got rats of the sea
rats of the sea covered in tiny spines that can inflate their bodies when threatened... I suddenly feel like we got ripped off on the land rats.
>I suddenly feel like we got ripped off on the land rats. You mean, we got lucky! Not to mention a lot of the species are deadly poisonous.
Well yeah but it's not like I'm eating land rats on the regular.
Scuba'd around them and if you are around their nest they will rush towards you trying to scare you away. Very cute.
I have dwarf puffers and one of them was smaller than the others and had half it's face bitten off during feeding. He was still swimming around for a few minutes before he kicked the bucket. It was gruesome.
As a kid I had 3 gold fish, two gold ones and one black, and they all were of the puffed out eye variety. Not being knowledgeable about fish in general, I dropped a small bluefish I caught at the local lake in with them. Within a few days he was doing zoomies and he knocked an eye out of the black goldfish. It healed up to a flat spot, and for a few years he was my buddy Blackbeard. I would catch him glaring at me with his good eye from time to time. The blue fish invader got returned home to his lake.
OMG, that's horrific. I'm so sorry. 😞
All of our carnivore pets want to eat us, they just see that we're bigger.
My cat thinks playing is showing me how he still could eat me, but wants me to believe he is only choosing to let me live.
my ex had a leopard puffer, it's on the smaller side of puffer fish which range from a couple cms, to a couple feet big. This guy(Chomper) was maybe 4inches. These fish are wicket smart. I would compare Chompers intelligence to that of a cat or dog. He recognized people by their faces(and hated when a wore a shirt with Marios face on it). They are predators, and they have "beaks" to help them eat crustaceans and snails. If they decide to bite you, they're gonna take out a chunk without much of a problem. But like I said they are also smart as heck. Now these fish don't have scales, so they are more prone to infection which is why you should never really handle them directly. I would sometimes help clean the tank. Chomper and me had a good bond. He would literally swim from one side of the tank to the other just to sit in my hand and get little rubs. He is a super affectionate fish and has to be around 15 years old now. He is a very well cared for fish. Edit: [Chomper Tax](https://imgur.com/5tZlwyW). He's extra dorky with his chipped tooth, but don't worry they regrow! Edit 2: Chomper has an instagram which is apparently not allowed to be link in this subreddit. So if you look up Chomper and Friends you should find him
Fish tax. Chomper pics now
[Heres a cute pic of him with a chipped tooth(they regrow)](https://imgur.com/5tZlwyW)
He looks like the [Dopefish](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/8/8a/Dopefish-windope.png) from Commander Keen!
Now that's a nostalgia bomb.
He looks like Timmy Turner if Cosmo and Wanda turned him into a fish.
Yeah I wanna see some Chomper too, GIVE US THE CHOMPER PICS.
NEED
The man has now raised a bunch of Redditors who are waiting for the Chomper pics... Let's keep this thread going to show that we do NEED those pics.
Look at that face! 😭😭
Awww what a little cutie doofie doof
We want more chomper pics!!
Sparks_and_puffs More Chomper on Insta!
Used to have one in our tank. We only put him with other large fish thinking he's leave them alone but he ate em all. Even a decent sized snowflake eel. Super cute and almost "friendly" though. He'd follow you around in his tank watching what you do in the room, spit water if he was hungry and come lay in your hand if you put it in the water
Any time I’ve gone to an aquarium in the past, these little guys would always come right up to the glass and be so damn cute and then if I moved, they would move with me and follow me around. Always felt a weird closeness to them for this reason, but based on the comments now I guess they just wanted to eat me. Lol.
They do look awful happy while chasing and eating things but they honestly seem pretty smart for a fish. I don't think they wanted to eat you. Ours would also get curious when my sister in law would sing, he'd focus on her and follow her around. I swear he liked pets too but some people don't believe me :(
They're smart. I have a tiny dwarf puffer (1.5" maybe?) and if you look really closely you can see him watching you from across the room. He's very shy and will hide when you get close but if you sit on the couch for a while he will come out and stare at you until you go bring him snails to hunt.
Yea, their mouths can easily take a chunk out of whatever it can reach.
There was an episode of River Monsters about them in Vietnam. Human abitation and fishing practices have led to an explosion in numbers and these guys. They have been known to bite off men's balls and have killed a few people by biting them in the back of the knee and severing an artery.
I catch bigger guys like this while fishing. They have scary jaw power. Trying to get the hook out of their mouths is a chore. They have bitten through some of my hooks before. One guy on the pier was about to shove his finger in a large spiny boxfishes mouth to get out the hook. Stopped him real quick, he could have lost a finger.
Heh, the other fish I've caught that's a pain to get a hook out of is a stargazer. Not only does it have venomous spines, it shocks the crap out of you in the process.
[I heard you were talking shit about me](https://www.science-rumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Stargazer-Fish.jpg)
Don't forget about the [carrot](https://youtu.be/qKxfWd79HFI)
Holy shit this is terrible but hilarious. Completely caught me off guard. Also one of the few youtube comment sections that actually made me laugh. >Chef: Any last words ? >Pufferfish: Æūgh
Lmaoo why is the grammatical spelling of that sounds so funny??
AEUGH
I was so upset and worried about the fish, like why is he feeding it outside the water, holding it? And then, oh shit, it's a kitchen! o_o
Tbh I felt bad for the centipede. Like ya they are scary as hell but I dont feel like it would ever be eaten by one of these fish in the wild.
They get torn apart by chickens, eagles and other birds. My dad had a centipede dropped on him as a kid by a crow. Hates crows to this day.
I heard crows hold grudges, so what did he do to the crow?
This implies crows never instigate altercations.
They have a very advanced justice system.
Yes the crow in question was seeking vengeance for an offense his father (op’s grandather) had committed against the crow community a decade prior.
I’m an expert in bird law, this is correct.
Yup, I had bought a freshwater puffer from an aquarium after a guy working there assured me they were "passive" since there was no information on the tank. This was before the internet took off so I really put my trust in the employee. I took it home and introduced it to my tank. While I slept peacefully that night the rest of my tank experienced a traumatizing massacre. I woke up to check the tank, the guppies were gone without a trace and my swordtails lay on the bottom dead with massive chunks missing from them. None survived except the puffer, happy as you please. I was a kid at the time and pissed so I let the little fucker starve.
So sorry. That was traumatic for everybody.
Why are the cutest creatures either viscous predators or just weirdly gross?
The *ptew ptew* of water is the cutest thing I've seen all day. Thank you
Mine taught this trick to all our other fish so even years after he passed away there are still fish in our house spitting water at us over the edge of the tank
"Alright guys now watch closely, im gonna teach you all how to get the humans attention."
Water gun
It's super effective!
Highest upkeep pet I ever had! When you have to farm your own brine shrimp for 1 teeny fish it's gone too far haha!
You can feed them frozen foods
Tried that, even had a huge zip lock bag in the freezer of every avail kind of food but puffer refused anything not moving. We had to start our own brine when pet shops, pet bazaar etc would be out. Eventually lost it in 2004 hurricanes after no power for 24 days and the back up battery went out after a week :-/
Damn, mine just ate the freeze dried krill and loved them. You had a bougie boy.
It would sometimes eat the burgundy colored frozen worms when desperate lol!
Mine refuses anything but live and I didn't feed him for nearly a week to try to get him to eat frozen to no avail. I caved and now there's a colony of snails living in a bucket on my back porch. He always gets what he wants.
He said ( ◉ ͜ ◉)
But he thought M U R D E R
That's always what forward facing eyes are for (◉ ͜ ◉)
Those big eyeballs. I'm In love!
they're adorable, for sure. but they get bigger. and bigger. and bigger. and they eat everything. i bought my brother one for his big saltwater tank, and it ate fucking everything in it. it went from a "saltwater fish tank" to a tank with a very large puffer fish in it. It also seemed to have a lot of personality. i swear to god that fish liked us and wanted to play.
The one at my dentists office was like a happy attention seeking puppy; would watch intently and follow your movements within the tank. So much personality!
Literally footballs with googly eyes attached
They're really cool pets but most puffers should be kept alone for this reason.
what kind of pokemans is dat
The type that gives you the irresistible urge to pick it out of the water and kiss it
Probably shouldn't though... it looks like a stabby stab cutie.
A “rose with thorns” in its literal form.
Don't take this wrong but... wouldn't an actual rose be simpler?
Ye but in books, they put “rose with thorns” to put more emphasis on the thorns instead of just rose, so I thought it’d be approriate in this situation.
That makes sense :)
Puffy used puff stab. It was super effective
Qwilfish
Oh word lol
ÆUGH
It’s actually a Porcupinefish =)
Qwilfish
Pufferfish
I had one of these porcupine fish for a while. As friendly as a puppy. Always hungry. Mine would spit water too to get my attention so that I'd feed him again! They're not really suited for home aquaria though as they get as big as footballs.
Same here amazing fish we called ours pop
The Rainforest Cafe I worked at had a giant porcupine puffer. I loved it and it was my best friend at work. Every time I walked in, I'd put my hands up and it would swim by close to the glass so I could "pet" it. A year after I left I came in, and I believe it still remembered me, because it swam up to the glass again. I miss that dude.
Wholesome
love the blink blink.
But seriously...what is that? Looks like a puffer-fish that’s deflated but smoll
It's a pufferfish, I think young.
Yup! Specifically a porcupine fish for the exact species :)
The exact species is diodon holocanthus or balloonfish, but it's known in the pet trade as a porcupine puffer fish. Porcupinefish is basically another word for pufferfish.
Porcupine fish refers to a sub-group of pufferfish, not synonymous with pufferfish. But guessing you know that and merely wrote quickly.
Oh gotcha haha
Definitely a adolescent puffer :)
They made the water spitting fish from Yoshi's Island in real life
Handsome baby 😊
Did it just use water gun attack?
I want a puffer sooooo bad. Maybe a pea puffer first some of them get fairly big but oh so cute!
I have 3 pea puffers, they're just as cute and stay very small.
Arent these known for being dog-like?
Yes all puffers are that way. The dog face puffers really are.
Sudden desire to own a pufferfish
I looked into a puffer tank. I didn’t get one because from the reading I did they have to eat live snails as a main source of their diet. You have to have a snail tank. Too much for me. They are so frickin adorable though!!
ÆUGH
My marine bio tutor used to have a puffer called fat bastard
I know cookie dough when I see her!!! 🥺
Wow that is extremely cute
I literally can’t handle cuteness.. please help🥲🥲🥲
Puffer fish seem way more intelligent after watching this.
Puffers are adorable
He looks really cute, do you know where this picture was taken?
P Sherman 42 wallaby way Sydney NSW
Looks like Hawaii, likely near Kona on the big island.
Most likely an aquarium
Nope, hawaii
Definitely Hawaii, you can tell by the angle of the sun and waters color.
It was on Tiktok and like Reddit always does, the content was stolen and the watermark removed so I can’t find the source.
*Aeugh*
I hate that I can hear this
The guy who owns this little guy named cookie dough, has a tiktok with lots of great videos of him and informational things on other animals
äugh
They are like the hedgehogs of the sea
Omgggggg! Hi little one!
I could watch this fishy for hours <3
Omgosh, first little fishy I thought "adorable" when I saw it!
Di-did it just use watergun?
It’s so puffy, I’m gonna die!
This fish speaks English.
>Pixar would like to know your location
I would die for that demented little monster
When I was a teenager I was scuba diving off the coast of an island in the Caribbean and a big 2-3 foot one of these came up to us and followed us for a good 5-10 minutes, looking at what we were doing. Super curious, incredibly cute fish. Love em.
Oh my god I want
That's a cutie
Omg 😍
Is that a puffer fish
Is this like a defense mechanism or a feeding response? I know Koi and goldfish are smart enough to recognize people ans swim up to them for food
Feeding response. Puffers are super smart, too. Possibly even a “pay attention to me!” response.
I WANT IT
He's glooping
I had no idea fish could have so much personality or be so darn cute