🐠 Blue Spotted Toby (Canthigaster cyanospilota)
A Vivid Blue-and-Yellow Toby • Black-Outlined Blue Spots • Hardy and Undemanding in a Fish-Only Setup
 
📋 The Blue Spotted Toby has a vivid blend of blue and yellow across its body, scattered with black-outlined blue spots that give the species its common name. It's native to the Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, where it's a benthic dweller on sandy and rocky bottoms at depths of roughly 10 to 80 metres.
It's a hardy, undemanding toby once settled, and it suits a fish-only or invertebrate-free setup best. It isn't reef safe: it will disturb and consume invertebrates such as clams, crustaceans, and shrimp, and will nip at stony corals. Its teeth grow continuously, so it needs regular hard-shelled foods to wear them down naturally.
Like all pufferfish, it carries tetrodotoxin, a potent neurotoxin concentrated in its skin and organs, so never eat a pufferfish, and wash your hands after tank maintenance. Use a rigid container and not a net for transfers, since tobies become alarmed and puff when netted.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Blue and Yellow With Black-Outlined Spots: A vivid, distinctive puffer
💪 Hardy: A resilient, undemanding species once settled
🦷 Continuously Growing Teeth: Needs regular hard-shelled foods
🪸 Nips Stony Corals: Best in a fish-only or invertebrate-free setup
🐟 Not Reef Safe: Will consume invertebrates