Tronkfeeshes!!!

by Meg on January 8, 2009

Bloop diddy blerpe

Bloop Bloop!

Bloop diddy blerpe

Bloop Bloop!

Inspired by Shelby L.! Juvenile Smooth Trunkfish, originally uploaded by Scubaben. Smooth Trunkfish Juvenile, originally uploaded by Scubaben and Have you seen my mommy?, originally uploaded by vlad levantovsky.

{ 67 comments }

1 Whitney 01.08.09 at 1:58 pm

What a cute fishie! Perfect lip posishe.

2 Katiedid 01.08.09 at 1:59 pm

Its like hes forever saying “Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

3 Hon Glad 01.08.09 at 2:10 pm

Pouting piscis.

4 Elisha B. 01.08.09 at 2:12 pm

Happy Fish!!!!

5 Ellie in Flint 01.08.09 at 2:16 pm

I love the polka dots!

6 opossum 01.08.09 at 2:37 pm

Love the teeny translucent fins!

7 Somebody 01.08.09 at 2:44 pm

Ooooooooooooom [meditative fish]

8 iggle 01.08.09 at 2:46 pm

What a teeny tailio! A Transparent Teeny Tail Too.
Also – could this be the only species of feesh that has ‘tocks? I see tocks.

9 Jezebel 01.08.09 at 2:58 pm

I,mean, just look at ‘em! The cutest things in all the oceans! Bloop!

10 Fegli 01.08.09 at 3:00 pm

Hahaha! I definitely want one! I bet it has some adorable fluttering action of those fins, too.

11 claudia 01.08.09 at 3:10 pm

BEHOLD! The most dangerous fish is tha oceans! lol jk

what a lil cutie with the little pursed lippsies.

12 claudia 01.08.09 at 3:10 pm

sigh. IN the oceans.

one of these days I shall take a typing course.

13 zeldapie 01.08.09 at 3:15 pm

*MWAAAAWAH!
(keeses)

14 iggle 01.08.09 at 3:18 pm

Does this remind anyone else of Bedknobs & Broomsticks?

Bobbing along
Bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea
What a chance to get a better peep
At the plants and creatures of the deep

15 Jiffknee 01.08.09 at 3:20 pm

He looks like a cute, puffy and tasty movie snack.

Love the itsy-bitsy-weensy fins!

16 Nancy 01.08.09 at 3:22 pm

oh my, Trunkfish of the Caribean. Those must be your Keira Knightley pensive expression leep poses.

17 Poohbear 01.08.09 at 3:29 pm

Bloop-dee-bloop, cannot pucker up, am LOLing too moishe !

And have you seen the tiny translucent fan-shaped tailio ?? Looks like a tiny scrunchie. Of COURSE it’s a girl feesh.

18 Katrina 01.08.09 at 3:49 pm

Oh, good Lord, how are you going to follow this? Tooooo cute. I hope there are lots of them and they they are happy and healthy and thriving SOMEWHERE PEOPLE CAN’T GET (CATCH) THEM!

What a cute little pouty Mcpoutersons. Oh, my…….

19 Will O'Neill 01.08.09 at 4:03 pm

This is a lovely post, and finally there is a blog exclusively about kissing animals…! Please visit at http://animalsneedkisses.wordpress.com/

20 Ellie in Flint again 01.08.09 at 4:30 pm

Here’s a little haiku for you Tronkfishe lovers.

Swim little Trunkfish
Polka dots on your body
Too much blorpitude

21 Noelle 01.08.09 at 4:38 pm

I think I dated this guy! Kisses were too wet for my taste. :)

22 biscuithead 01.08.09 at 4:50 pm

Great, my mouth is now frozen in a pucker posishe.
My work day is going to go very well today.
I’m sure no one will mock me at all.
*rolls eyes*
Yeah, thanks CO.

23 Shannon 01.08.09 at 4:50 pm

Great. Another fish to add to my imaginary tank that I will never have in real life.

BTW – if I saw this guy in some aquarium sim, I wouldn’t think it was real, lol. One of my favorite things in LIFE is to see an animal I have never seen before!

24 Suzanne 01.08.09 at 5:20 pm

Iggie – YES! That was one of my fave segments of that movie. :)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an almost perfectuly ROUND fish before…it’s like a little polka dotted bubble bobbing along.

25 Lucy's Mommeh 01.08.09 at 5:27 pm

All I can see is Gary Larson (Far Side) cartoons with this shisshy….

26 Annie 01.08.09 at 5:28 pm

OMG he is a little speckled balloon in the ocean.. (Okay aquarium)

27 Wombats 01.08.09 at 5:29 pm

He has perfect Blorpitude. Such a prosh color scheme!

28 platedlizard 01.08.09 at 5:58 pm

COW FISHIE!

Awwww, so cute and bloppular.

29 grilledchz 01.08.09 at 6:10 pm

THIS is why i love this site! so many different species%Pr

30 MaggieBee 01.08.09 at 6:11 pm

BLOOOOOOOOOORP!
I can’t believe how SMALL the feeshe is! It’s about PEA-SIZED!! O.O

Much cuter as a behbeh than an adult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxfish

31 babelglyph 01.08.09 at 6:26 pm

I want to get a polka-dotted purse with a polka-dotted aquarium and a polka-dotted fishie so I can take this blorpy around with me all day! Fishykisses for all!

32 Theresa 01.08.09 at 6:44 pm

He reminds me of the line (one of many that cracks up the choir) in the “Messiah” about “They shoot out their lips.”

33 Not That Mike The Other Mike 01.08.09 at 6:54 pm

@Theresa: Heh. Speaking of Handel’s Messiah, the bit that always cracks me up is “All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray” because the chorus has to sing “we like sheep” over and over again.

34 C. 01.08.09 at 7:17 pm

Lol, Ellie in Flint. Any haiku that contains the word “blorpitude” is all right with me.

35 Boomer's Babysitter 01.08.09 at 7:30 pm

When I first opened up the page, I thought… “Where’s the rest of him?” Very cute little ball o’ fish!

36 val 01.08.09 at 7:54 pm

am i the only one to find a resemblance with Posh??

37 Theresa 01.08.09 at 8:34 pm

NTMTOM, after one of zillions of Xmas Messiahs last month, the NY Times music critic wrote “Who doesn’t like sheep”?

38 Annie 01.08.09 at 8:35 pm

LOL in my head I hear propeller sounds as he swishes by.

39 berthaservant 01.08.09 at 8:56 pm

I hereby nominate “blorp” and/or “blorpitude” to be included as 1) a new tag and/or 2) an addition to the glossary.

Please let me know where to get the twenty-seven-B-stroke-six forms to begin the process.

(If anyone gets that reference, you have a marriage proposal coming your way….)

40 kbo 01.08.09 at 9:01 pm

He is utterly fantastic! That tail!

@berthaservant – was that from Futurama, the ‘bureaucracy’ episode? I loved that one.

41 terra 01.08.09 at 9:16 pm

berthaservant: just a wild guess off the top of my head…that wouldn’t be Brazil, would it?

42 Theo 01.08.09 at 9:17 pm

I’d submit a guess, but… y’know, married already.

43 Theresa 01.08.09 at 10:57 pm

Nor “utterly” fantastic, but RUDDERLY fantastic. ;)

44 Marie 01.08.09 at 11:29 pm

Oh I love this leetle baby tronkfeesh. How delightful and totally precious!

45 eikoleigh 01.08.09 at 11:52 pm

omg….I just squealed at work….

46 ScubaBen 01.09.09 at 12:09 am

Wow! Thanks for sharing my photos. Yes, I loved finding these little guys. So hard to actually capture as they kept moving around and my camera would hunt to focus. They’re only about 2 centimeters long.

47 Noelegy 01.09.09 at 12:41 am

I wonder why it’s called a “trunkfish,” and not, say, a “blorpfish,” or a “bubblefish,” or at the very least, a “roundfish.”

48 Theo 01.09.09 at 1:44 am

What, you’ve never seen a steamer trunk?
They look nothing like this fish.

49 Nik 01.09.09 at 1:44 am

Is it just me or does it look like he has leetle eyelashes in the 2nd picture?! Adorable.

50 berthaservant 01.09.09 at 5:15 am

Terra: what color should the invitations be?

51 Theo 01.09.09 at 5:56 am

ALL THE COLORS OF IMAGINATION.

52 Theo 01.09.09 at 5:56 am

all of them

53 Subhangi 01.09.09 at 6:28 am

Feesh kees! Feesh kees! Bloop!

It’s my first ever Firday at work, btw! Happy MFBT!

[hands out tankards of Guinness]

54 meowmom 01.09.09 at 10:10 am

Does anyone else think he
looks like a “Lucha Libre”
head without a body? Now that will creep me out. LOL
yes the 2nd photo shows some nice cutie eyelashes
so he/she can do the
trout pout & bat eyelashes
what a flirt!!!

55 Gail (the first one) 01.09.09 at 10:45 am

@Subhangi: Congratulations!!! Hope it is the beginning of long, happy and successful career!!!!

Cute little fishie-smoocher!!

56 terra 01.09.09 at 1:24 pm

Berthaservant, you can pick the color, but I think at the reception, everyone should have to share a table through a wall and the floor should be covered with paperwork.

57 dia 01.09.09 at 2:48 pm

Bloop. Bloop.

Bloop.

<3

58 Shadyman 01.09.09 at 7:28 pm

Bahahaha, teh qte! Props for the headline, too.

Bloop.

59 Katrina 01.09.09 at 9:55 pm

Subhangi-congratulations! Have a great weekend! Drive safely, please!

60 Shelby L. 01.09.09 at 11:23 pm

HOMG i cant believe i inspired a post!!!!!!!! i really flipped, my husband thought something was horribly wrong XD CO is a big deal in our family, everyone loves it!

and these feeshes are sooo cute :D

61 jaime 01.10.09 at 12:31 am

OMG! I want!!!!

62 Leslie Irish Evans 01.10.09 at 12:40 am

Oops! I ate him.

63 Katrina 01.10.09 at 4:18 pm

How big is this thing? Dime-sized or grouper-sized?
Imagine a great big grouper-sized black and white spotted pout swimming at you-
just wonderful. OR, a swarm (pod, school)of 100 teeny-tiny ones swimming right for you-how much fun would that be?
Now we need a Leafy Sea Dragon, please! Thank you!

64 Katrina 01.10.09 at 4:21 pm

OOOH, I forgot to tell you- there is a new South American Selonodon that has been identified and photographed! No actual critter catching yet; they tried with no success. It looks like an echinda with a bigger nose and taller legs. Oh, yes, it is venomous.

65 Katrina 01.10.09 at 11:26 pm

Two cm – ok, the 100-fishy school then! Black and white polka dots-never goes out of style! Nature, I tip my hat to you once again!

Great pictures! Do some more and send them in!

66 squirmy 01.28.09 at 2:02 am

its so Cute! i have it as my wallpaper!

67 ANDREAAAAAAAA 02.17.09 at 11:20 am

HOLY CRAP.
THAT IS THEEEE CUTEST FISH EVER
i want one
really bad
omg
omg
omg
its so cute
SO FRIKKEN CUTE :D

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