What is puffer valentini?
Puffer valentini, also known as the saddled puffer or black saddled toby, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The saddled puffer is a small sized fish which grows up to 11 cm. It is widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea included, and until the oceanic islands of the Pacific Ocean. It inhabits rocky and coral reefs, lagoons and external reef until 55 m. Puffer valentini has a diurnal activity.
Puffer valentini has four distinct black stripes (saddles) on its back. The head is blue-grey and the main body is white speckled with blue-grey spots. The tail and fins show hints of yellow and there is a rainbow streak of color behind the eyes. It is omnivorous, it feeds on filamentous green and red algae, tunicates, and on smaller amounts of corals, bryozoans, polychaetes, echinoderms, mollusks, and brown and coralline red algae.
What to feed valentini puffer?
puffer valentinis are also very good fish to keep. They are very adaptable to the aquarium environment and artificial thinking. This fish is exceptionally gentle, and of the many puffer fish families, they are the only species suitable for mixing with small ornamental fish. And they do not attack corals and can be stocked in reef ecological aquariums.
