Meet Porky the friendly Puffer!

Get up close & personal with Porky, the resident Porcupine Pufferfish at Ko Haa Lagoon, just off Ko Lanta in Thailand. Porky is so curious he will happily accompany you for your whole dive, especially if you have yellow fins! Footage courtesy of Liquid Lense & Scubafish

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Tropical
• Fish
• Ko
• Haa
• Lanta
• Thailand
• Porcupine
• Pufferfish
• diving
• Scuba
• holiday

[sillygirl99999]

well, the first fish isn't a porc puffer.

[LiquidLense]

Hello there,

The footage you saw in the video is all of the same Porcupine Pufferfish, shot in the lagoon at Ko Haa - some beautiful uninhabited islands of Thailand's west coast. He lives there and is very fond of divers, especially if you have yellow fins.

Someday soon we'll try and make a little video of a boxfish so you can compare them - they are much smaller the Porcupine Puffers, but just as cute & funny!

Hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for commenting....

The Liquid Lense team

[youttube1977]

Hey SG, he is a spot-fin porcupine puffer fish/Diodon hystrix and is in the same family (Diodon) as the Porcupine Puffer fish you see at your LFS. Unlike the Porcupines at your LFS that grow to a max of 19inches these guys will grow to 3 foot!

[Ails2006]

People, he's a puffer, the important point you are missing is that he is called Eric, and is my favourite fish in the whole of Lanta - apart from Big Eric, the whale shark. Thanks for giving me a piece of Koh Ha to treasure again. i miss it.xx

[sillygirl99999]

That's not a porcupine puffer...I think that's a box fish.

[canadianNS420]

ACUC avDIVER