Hawaiian Trigger Fish

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This is a picture of a little smaller DFP than what we encountered....but we were swimming over the reef and I just happened to look around behind us and there was a large Dog faced puffer just a couple of feet away....up near the surface checking us out......scared the crap out of me at the time!!!.......I had to shoo him away because I did not like him that close....we started swimming around and again I look and there he is.......stalking us. Scared me for a second....but he was just curious.

**The one in this picture was approx 24" from nose to end of tail.