Boca Inlet fish ID question

[mntlblok]

I think it is a type of pufferfish

https://www.google.com/search?q=che...KQ9gT8tIGABw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=710

Looks like these guys to me. Maybe Checkered Puffer (Sphoeroides testudineus)

 

[tddfleming]

https://www.google.com/search?q=che...KQ9gT8tIGABw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=710

Looks like these guys to me. Maybe Checkered Puffer (Sphoeroides testudineus)

I think that is it!! Thanks guys. Went to LBTS thinking I should see more of them and ask someone that was with us diving, and not a one of them out there.

 

[Chugwhump]

I think that is it!! Thanks guys. Went to LBTS thinking I should see more of them and ask someone that was with us diving, and not a one of them out there.

It is my experience that you will only see these little guys very shallow.
I have only seen them in the intra-coastal, tidal flats, and very near inlets.

I have NEVER seen one in what we would describe as "Open Ocean".

Chug
Does not eat Fugu.

 

[tddfleming]

That could explain some of it, but I did see some further away from the jettie, over where the rubble/reef is at South Inlet park. Which would put them in more open water and deeper than the jettie. Maybe they are just like the area