What Fish is This

[Immortal_Donkey]

That's a Bandtail Puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri). I have been diving for 25 years and run into these all through the Caribbean, Mexico, and up along the Carolinas. They're poisonous to eat and they can inflate if harassed. They are some aggravating bait stealing buggers. They're not endangered & I don't know what other animals eat them...not me, I know that much.

Jim

Thank you


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[Ketchn]

that there is the original Zombie fish ...the poison was once used to create a zombie like coma and hence the bla bla bla movies we see everywhere about zombies .....or at least that's what I read many many moons ago about them .....said witch doctors around the Caribbean would dry them out and grind the the lil buggers into powder and use a just right amount to almost kill you .....seems if you survived the initial "death" after consumption , you would later come to and be a walking dead zombie .....
and they can trim finger nails quite good too ,,,,puffer /blow fish it is .....

[Immortal_Donkey]

that there is the original Zombie fish ...the poison was once used to create a zombie like coma and hence the bla bla bla movies we see everywhere about zombies .....or at least that's what I read many many moons ago about them .....said witch doctors around the Caribbean would dry them out and grind the the lil buggers into powder and use a just right amount to almost kill you .....seems if you survived the initial "death" after consumption , you would later come to and be a walking dead zombie .....
and they can trim finger nails quite good too ,,,,puffer /blow fish it is .....

Dang thanks dude, I’m glad I know that now. That’s very interesting TBH


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