Burrfish

[Paul B]

How cool is my burrfish?
I collected this guy the summer before the last summer here in NY in the Atlantic. He came up on the Gulf stream as many tropicals do then they die when the water gets cold so you can say I saved his life. I also collected a bunch of other fish with him but I eventually gave them all away.
This burrfish is in my Local NY tank because if I put him in my reef he would just about eat through the corals, crabs, fish and glass. Burrfish along with porcupine fish are reef fish but not exactly reef safe. Porcupinefish actually prefer coral reefs and burrfish usually stay more on sandy areas. I feed him a large piece of shrimp or fresh clam every day and he grew from an inch to almost 5" in a 10 gallon tank.

 

[Lenny]

Very Cool! What else did you catch? How did you catch him?

 

[Paul B]

I caught a bunch of these guys with him along with seahorses, pipefish, wrasses, blowfish, coronetfish and a bigeye
I use a 20' sceene net

 

[subielover]

That is too cool!

 

[Lenny]

That is awesome! Is a sceene net like a drag net or is it something off a boat?

 

[revhtree]

That is cool!

 

[jordan3548]

So how do you catch this stuff I live about 45 min from the beach and try to catch stuff everytime I go and the fish are extremely fast they'll be a 100 and and I still dont catch any

 

[ScottyMcReefer]

That burrfish is SWEET!

 

[skinz78]

Very cool!

 

[Paul B]

The net is a 2 man net that you drag from shoulder deep water to shore over grass flats. You catch hundreds with each pass but most of them are silversides, spearing and minnows. You have to look close for the stuff you want. Some of those butterfly fish were 1/4" long and just about got caught in the net. The burrfish was 3/4"

 

[Dee77]

nice puffer

 

[Paul B]

Thanks, he told me to wish you a Happy New Year
Paul

 

[Paul_N]

Thanks for sharing. Love the pattern on it. How many tanks do you keep?

 

[Paul B]

I only have two tanks now, I was up to 9 or 10 but they were small tanks for raising fry, experiments, crab tanks and local stuff.