Baby Puffer?

[the_cat_keeper]

I saw this fish at Puerta Galera, Philippines a few days ago. It is about 1 inch long and looks like a tiny bristly puffer... but what's that hanging near the fish tail?

 

[Mako Mark]

this is a juvinile variety of the dog faced puffer fish.

I have never seen one with stripes like this, but the body is unmistakable..

 

[SueMermaid]

And it appears that the "thing" hanging near his tail is a puffer doodie.

 

[the_cat_keeper]

And it appears that the "thing" hanging near his tail is a puffer doodie.

heehee... that's what i thought. thanks.

 

[Vie]

From the markings and colour around the eye, I’d say (tentatively) that it’s a juvenile white-spotted puffer Arothron hispidus. The stripes is also very similar to those found on Arothron reticularis. The yellow circle around the pectoral fin is a clue but I have never seen this marking on an Arothron hispidus before.