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Flyride95
Mon, 13th Aug 2012, 11:15 PM
Hello everyone, Saturday and Sunday I took my boys down to corpus and we all went out on the jetties. We caught alot of peppermint shrimp, segeant major damsels, and molly miller blennies. But we have a few other catches that we would like to know what we have. So if you wouldn't mind??

This guy is the size of a pea
http://i50.tinypic.com/2e5lcvl.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/28so7li.jpg


And then this crab. I believe it to be a spider crab or decorator but i could be wrong.
http://i46.tinypic.com/2eefyhx.jpg
koa25
Mon, 13th Aug 2012, 11:23 PM
The first is a box fish or "boston pea" not sure on the crab. You might be right on the type.
Flyride95
Mon, 13th Aug 2012, 11:39 PM
Is the box fish full grown? or will he get larger?
Kristy
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 06:31 AM
The box fish is a baby, not full grown. I can't recall how big they get to be... have to look that one up.
Flyride95
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 01:12 PM
I guess a big question is does this little guy contain ostracitoxin? And if he does how big will he have to get for it to be a worry?
koa25
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 01:25 PM
They do release a chemical in the water. Not in large amounts but it is consistant. So in a confined reef like a tank it will build up over time. Not sure if a protein skimmer would remove it or carbon. But it does. Or the majority of box fish do at least.
Flyride95
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 02:18 PM
He's in a 70gal aquarium right now. Is that to small? He is really tiny right now, how much larger do I have to worry about his toxins?
Dominican
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 02:43 PM
If that's a cubicus boxfish (not sure if I see the black spots on him or not), I had a single one of these little buggers die and wipe out half the fish in my 150 long ago. I'd avoid putting him in with other fish, even if he is tiny. I could be overreacting, but it wasn't a good experience for my tank..
Third Coast Tropical
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 05:26 PM
it could be a Least Puffer. Hard to tell with pic quality
Sherita
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 05:31 PM
It looks like a cubicus to me, but I'm not sure either.
Flyride95
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 09:34 PM
It was a cubicus boxfish. I took him out and now he is in a friends little 10 gallon. Thank you everyone for the id.
reefreak
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 10:58 PM
aww man my brother inlaw has a 100 gallon with nothing but boxfish.
Flyride95
Tue, 14th Aug 2012, 11:05 PM
Yea I wanted to keep him. My boys though he was the coolest guy ever. Now I have to catch these **** sergant majors that are in my tank. They are way to roudy.