What Fish is This

I was fishing in Key West a while ago and I caught this little fish. I’m having a hard time figuring out what it is, can someone help me?

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Goby????

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Originally Posted by Kevmc

Goby????

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It could be a goby is a goby has a very sticky and white belly, but this fish was a little bit bigger and fatter


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Puffer fish/ blow fish.

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Originally Posted by Cray

Puffer fish/ blow fish.

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I don’t know, this guys face looks a little longer than a puffer or blow fish’s face


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Originally Posted by Cray

Puffer fish/ blow fish.

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Actually you know what, it may be a blow fish


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Yeppers blow fish

Nemo??

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Yep, puffer. Gulp shrimp eating lil sons a guns they are.

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

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Originally Posted by Yak Fish

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

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Thank you


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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 .....:ThumbsUp

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Originally Posted by 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 .....:ThumbsUp

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


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