web burrfish

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 About " web burrfish "

📍Kingdom:- Animalia


📍Phylum:- Chordata

📍Class:- Actinopterygii

📍Order:- Tetraodontiformes

📍Family:- Diodontidae

📍Genus:- Chilomycterus

📍Species:- C. antillarum

📍Binomial name:-

 Chilomycterus antillarum

👉Chilomycterus antillarum, the web burrfish, spiny box puffer, bridled burrfish or striped burrfish, is a species of fish in the genus Chilomycterus native to the Western Atlantic Ocean,southern Florida, and the Bahamas to Brazil.

👉The species can grow up to 12 inches in length.

👉Spiny box puffers are not recommended for the novice aquariust, as they are difficult to adjust to captive fare.

👉They require a minimum 75 gallon aquarium, with high water quality (SG 1.020 - 1.025, pH 8.1 - 8.4, Temp. 72 - 78 °F).

👉Their diet consists of mollusks and other meaty, live foods.

👉The must be fed shellfish since their beaks grow throughout their life, or they will starve.

👉Like other puffers they inflate themselves with water to escape capture, do not force them to do this as it will cause stress.

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📷:- https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/thefishes/species/4407

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