Is there any love for a porcupine puffer fish?

NapoleonWrasse · 7 months

I work at an aquarium and we have one a bit bigger then this little guy. He's very friendly and often gets belly rubs from the divers! Sometimes I'll see him sitting by the glass partition between the large shark habitat and his habitat just staring at the sharks swimming by. Kind of like a cat watching people walk past their window.

kinghfb · 7 months

Yes ๏‿๏

CheezyBacon · 7 months

First fish I've seen that I can honestly say is adorable.

computer_princess · 7 months

There is love, but also fear.

guitarjag72 · 7 months

Yes....found one so docile in the Intracoastal down here in So. Fla. that I could actually touch it, pick it up, and show it to my son without it puffing up on me (quickly put back in the water of course)

figureeight · 7 months

Now I'm missing my puffers. I had 2 brackish tanks where I kept Figure 8 puffers and gobies.

Puffers are high maintenance, but they are pretty close to having a puppy that lives underwater.

TracyMorganFreeman · 7 months

Kif?

kewshie · 7 months

The Salmon Dance - The Chemical Brothers

^{^} do yourself a favor and listen ^{^}

Ever since I saw that I loved that fish haha

Stember · 7 months

๏‿๏

We love him, only thing is , of he get's to exited he..POOF

Once, i was at the aquariPOOF ... and then my mom got her purse to pay and a 100 dollaPOOF ... we got home, i ran up to the front doPOOF ... and finally when all was set and installed, the night came, and the lights of my newly installed aquarium went oPOOF

Good_Guy_Graig · 7 months

That smile... Its so... cute.

gbanananut · 7 months

Me and my boyfriend wanted to get a puffer fish but never got the chance to go through with it. We were gonna name him H.R. puff n stuff.

Dhananhay · 7 months

I love puffers .. I would have one in my tank but its set up reef at the moment, but I work at an aquarium store and we do service calls to people in town and I have a funny story. It was like my third or fourth day working here and I had just moved to town to go to school. I was training with my boss and we were at a guys house working on his 600 gallon predator tank that had a huge porcupine in it. All puffers have the I dont give a fuck personality and while all the other fish would hid when you work messing with the tank they just wanna stay out and see whats going on. My boss said that if I stuck a finger out at him he would bite it and that I should try it. Being one for adventure I gave it a try. It just sat there looking at my finger for a full minute and I was starting to think maybe it wasnt going to happen so I looked away to tell my boss he wasnt going to do it and thats when it attacked as if it knew what it had the element of surprise. With out thinking I reacted by quickly pulling my hand out of the tank but the little bastard held on and let go after my hand was fully out of the water, and as you may know it is extreamly dangerous for puffers to be out of the water if they decide to puff up. Well the little guy fell to the floor with a thud from about 5 feet and onto some towels we had on the floor. Me and my boss quickly reacted with panic and a lot of surprise we couldnt just pick him up because hes spines were sticking to the towel like velcro so he grabed the whole towel and threw it into the water so if the puffer did puff he wouldnt get filled with air. We were then able to untangle him and he still lives to this day, and that is the story of my first "oh shit" moment working with aquariums.

omahad · 7 months

I've owned a few of these guys and I loved them. They have the personality of a puppy. They always are happy to see you when you get home. They're kinda mischevous, and extremely gluttonous. They'll even sit in your hand. I had two of mine trained to spit water (about 2 feet) out of the tank before I'd feed them by hand (holding the food about 3" aove the water so they'd jump out and grab it.) Nothing but love for the porcupine puffers.

chanseyy · 7 months

...but does it phone home?

UrbanUndead · 7 months

Ahhh! So cute! I have a pea puffer, and though she doesn't have those cool convex googly orbs, her irises look like old school camera apertures if you look closely. Such friendly lil fish, too! <3 puffers <3

Kiiren · 7 months

So much love. My fiance and I have a different kind of puffer in one of our tanks. His name is Goodyear.

Frodo13 · 7 months

I was vacationing in Long Beach Island and thought I'd try my hand at net fishing (While fully intent on releasing my catches). First try I catch about thirty minnows, three of the biggest blue crabs I've ever seen, and one of these guys. He couldn't have been more than three or four inches. When I picked him up he would fill with air and puff his chest out. Really cool experience.

musiquephreak · 7 months

Home alone, did an awkward Awww laugh

zfusfeld · 7 months

he gets ALL THE LOVE

Canitrollyou · 7 months

haha That just made me smile like an idiot : D

[deleted] · 7 months

Nope! Downvote.

Just kidding, how can I saw no to that smile!

exor674 · 7 months

I just want to cuddle that.... Would probably be an insanely bad idea, though...

UselessPenguin · 7 months

Awww. Rivals the axolotl for smiley-est aquatic creature.

Jimmerz95 · 7 months

Meme ?

Blondo14 · 7 months

we have a puffer fish of our own - it's shocking how much personality they can have!

Radar_Monkey · 7 months

No. They're little fatty fat fats that throw temper tantrums by splashing water out of the tank and knocking stuff over until you feed them.

It is pretty damn cute the first week though.

cazwel · 7 months

if any of you guys watch CTFxC its ted!<3

dirk_mcjerk · 7 months

I set a 5.5 gallon brackish tank as an expierment, now i have a saddleback living in it, i fuckin love that little fish, he's my best friend

Jona90 · 7 months

NO! Reminds me too much of this. Brings back horrible childhood memories.

kakemot · 7 months

No. Fuck you fish.

FlexorCarpiUlnaris · 7 months

When they get scared and puff up it can kill them.

Q.Q

quantumsheep · 7 months

PHONE HOME

Iphotographboobs · 7 months

Isn't he just adorable .. ?

muddyh2o · 7 months

i worked as a dive instructor for a few years. there were a few of these cuties which we'd see every day, and i'd always try to tickle them under their chin. never got bitten by them--they really are just too adorable! that said, please don't ever stress them out to the point of puffing up. it's not good for them.

LOVERBUNS · 7 months

new meme time

ItsAYeti · 7 months

I love puffers!! Especially dogface puffers. I used to tease them with my finger and wait until they spat water at me. Then they would get treats!

AnonyMRS · 7 months

One thing I love about this subreddit is the fact that animals who weren't particularly 'cute' in my book are now considered fucking adorable.

sonic_harmonic · 7 months

If you ever go diving Koh Lanta or Koh Phi Phi in Thailand you'll often go to Koh Ha. It's a lovely series of islands out in the middle of nowhere.

In the Koh Ha lagoon you will find a porcupine puffer fish called Porkie that's exceptionally friendly. He's so famous he even has his own facebook page.

I've seen him quite a few times and he absolutely loves divers, so much so that he often gets in the way. I was doing my rescue diver final practical which involves bringing up an unresponsive diver. Porkie was hanging around and when I grabbed the diver I almost squashed Porkie in between the diver and the bottom.

Managed to shoo him away and he faithfully followed us back to the dive boat :) Heading back there in February and I'm sure I'll be seeing him again.

donnacheer11 · 7 months

with all the badness in the world, much of which finds it's way here, cute is always welcome.

sinking_sunk · 7 months

MmmMmm. Delicious.

My favorite is hirezake, which is where the smoked fin of the puffer fish is placed in sake.

trisaratopz · 7 months

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kalliopehm · 7 months

It just looks so happy!

Jose_Monteverde · 7 months

so....so much love for porcupine puffer fish

pterid · 7 months

I would laugh at all of your jokes, little fish :o

TheAlbinoPolarBear · 7 months

I've always found fish somewhat creepy (I don't know, its natural I guess), BUT NOT THIS ONE! >.<

Dunabu · 7 months

It reminds me of a Podling from Dark Crystal.

spritle6054 · 7 months

I'm not a fan of fish, but I love the iridescence in their eyes

skulldrome · 7 months

Yes. Yes there is.

asized · 7 months

I love those little guys! I see them all the time while freediving.

saucygit · 7 months

no, they swim in their own filth!

ReverendEnder · 7 months

He wants to eat my soul!

sanukinotanuki · 7 months

reminds me of this

kdial1 · 7 months

Love has been shown

http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/oss3l/porcupine_puffer_fish_love_shown/

Hoorayham · 7 months

For this lil fella? OF COURSE THERE IS.

moarhotpockets · 7 months

All the love!!!!!!

Ecivilak · 7 months

Not sure if nope or adorable.

FeculentUtopia · 7 months

But of course! They're adorable, and can rasp the face right off of anything.

VirgiliusNix · 7 months

Reminds me of Crash Bandicoot :D

MisterPif · 7 months

Phone Home!

HanoverGimp · 7 months

I wonder if my friend, Mr. Slave would enjoy a Porcupine Puffer Fish?

TLGJames · 7 months

They are so neat to see in the wild. They almost look like a cartoon character when you're snorkeling and they pop out of some rock formation.

Dougalicious · 7 months

Rubios!

Not_A_Meme · 7 months

There are very few sea creatures I would like to hug. This is one.

exnor · 7 months

Logically, I know that smiling probably doesn't actually indicate happiness in fish. But that's still the sweetest thing ever.

muddyh2o · 7 months

poor thing has to swim it its own urine.

skysignor · 7 months

fuck yeah!

labrys · 7 months

It looks oddly like ET

bogwey · 7 months

This is one of my favorite fish to keep. They have real personality and are easy to hand feed.

[deleted] · 7 months

Is there any love for..

Blatant karma whoring. Fucking seriously Reddit.

tripleR · 7 months

I want to live the day when the top comment for posts like this will be

NO

ITpeon · 7 months

I used to have one of those guys years ago that got to the size if a football. They have so much personality.

ojolejano · 7 months

YOU MUST KNOW

[deleted] · 7 months

ET PHONE HOME

duckduckmooses · 7 months

No, there is no love for your googled picture.

Kadaz · 7 months

E.T ?!

GiveMeCaffeine · 7 months

Adorable! How can something so cute can paralyze and kill you so fast? From what I hear they have tetrodotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons around...Nature is a bitch!

spliffany · 7 months

so much love for this little smilie cutie patootie :D

FthrJACK · 7 months

ET phone home... Must phone home

spacetank · 7 months

Home...

mariniac · 7 months

With a smile like this, yes :D

thenotoriousFIG · 7 months

My parents had a lamp of an adult one. Dangerousest lamp ever. I pricked my fingers several times on it.

autoxtl · 7 months

Finally caught the movie Next Stop Wonderland this past weekend (OK, it's a circa 1998 production; so my movie watching is a bit behind), and one of the stars of the movie is one of these charismatic puffer fish. Now, I [coincidentally?] see one here on Reddit. Time to ponder the "hand of god" and fatalism (as mentioned in the movie ;-).

nathanb065 · 7 months

I think I smell a new meme coming. . .

Precious Porcupine Fish

or something

dying_fetus · 7 months

yes i love that fish. very delicious.

Mildly_Aggressive · 7 months

Jessie, you are a puffer fish!

Badrobinhood · 7 months

No love from me. I once stepped on a dead one that had washed up on the beach. Hurt like hell.

amazinnn · 7 months

Not particularly, considering they have a toxin that this 1200 times more powerful than cyanide.

Although they are kinda cute.

Houndoom · 7 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDj7DuHVV9E&ob=av3e The Chemical Brothers- The Salmon Dance

Heres some love for him- he may not have the main part, but he carries the beat.

GuntherCloneC · 7 months

"Smeagol hates nasty elf bread."

bro_digz · 7 months

Usually r/awww doesn't do anything for me. I don't even bother looking. However, this is awesome and interesting. Have an upvote.

tudormuscalu · 7 months

much love!

lil2faded · 7 months

every fucking rubios i go to has one of these in their aquarium. sooo freaking cute :]

well_no · 7 months

Why the hell would i like this fi-OOOooh it's smiling :D

dietcokerules · 7 months

i've always wanted one of these fish!!

AlienVredditoR · 7 months

All glory to the hypnofish

[deleted] · 7 months

Don't make me puff out bro

Chardonneh · 7 months

Wow, I see this exact picture everyday when I log into work. One of our main programs opens with this pic..small world. Where did you find this image, hmmm. Do you work at a call center?

meggalaa · 7 months

1138 upvotes for a puffer fish?? yowza.

montreal_things · 7 months

All the love.

plethorgalgas · 7 months

Don't make me scared; you wouldn't like me when I'm scared.

bigboobah · 7 months

hell yeah there is

wafflezkill · 7 months

YESSS!! :D <3

TheDark1 · 7 months

As a fisherman in Australia, no. These things are a blight, like the rabbits of the sea.

iamneopunk · 7 months

Based on his looks you might be even luckier in /r/trees ;)

Positive0 · 7 months

HO MASON IT'S PATRICK FROM SCHOOL (Upvote this so he can see it guys!!!!)

DDayDawg · 7 months

I used to scuba dive a lot and I remember I spent one entire dive. A good 40 minutes, playing with one of these guys and trying to get him to puff up. It seems to be very difficult to scare them enough to get them to go into defensive mode. 40 minutes and that little bastard never did puff. Grrr.

akro474 · 7 months

moderator000 · 7 months

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