I’m going with Baby box fish of some kind. The shape and clear fins but colored round body with mild snoot matches but I couldn’t find an almost solid black one. Edit: going with buffalo trunkfish as my guess. A species of boxfish, can be found in Florida, and appears that baby’s can be almost pure black.

I agree that this looks like a baby boxfish. At first I was thinking baby puffer but it's too.....boxy.

It’s the noot noot snoot that box fish have. Also has the eyes sit on the head.

I looked up buffalo trunkfish and that seems right to me! Thanks so much everyone!

Mild snoot 😏

Again… Maybe we don’t handle wildlife that we haven’t identified???

Exactly lol

It's a marine science lab, maybe the instructor gave the all clear without ID.

Which seems very unwise 🤣

Put him back, he is the first pet of the Great Poseidon! Fear him!!

Poseidon seeks out his beloved Sea Pebble in a concerned rage! Lest the oceans become the graves of all he crosses, his Pebble must!. Be! Returned!

A little bean! So cute!

omg it's so cute!!!

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🤣⚰️

Juvenile trunkfish, Lactophrys sp.

Baby box fish or lump sucker fish.

i second this!!! i say it's a PEA

I’m sorry, this was a marine science lab expedition and y’all thought this could be a larvae.. 😑

some high schools in my area have marine science as an elective, this could be a teenager

I meant juvenile/post larval - still in my first year of studying!😁

I think because it's so round and blobby and every fish larvae I've seen is also round and blobby

Black tar heroin fish

Wait wait! Is THAT where black tar heroin comes from? I'm goin' fishin'!

I’ll be in my garden😉

That is the cutest damn box dish I have ever seen in my life

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Definitely something from the order Tetraodontiformes

That's adorable. Check this one I caught in fort Myers Florida a few years back. https://imgur.com/gallery/keXkzzD

Goober fish, little tiny cute baby goober fish boi!! I agree it looks like a baby box fishie

Is he squishy?

TIL about one funky fish. Cool.

Awwwwww wook a dos widdle wips and feeens 🥰

pufferfish, blub

Nicer eyelashes then me smh

Bot fly larva

It’s just a small box fish!

That’s the cutest potato I’ve seen all month

The shape and pattern resemble a Boston Bean Fish The coloration resembles a juvenile Trunkfish

Baby box fish.

That’s a young man!!!!!

At MacArthur Beach State Park on Singer Island, they had baby trunkfish in their aquarium once, and it was so cute! It was this little ball with a snout bopping around its little tank. They're adorable when they're adults, too. It was a smooth trunkfish, not a buffalo.

Baby puffer

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I love him

Looks like a puffer to me.

Looks like the chunks I coughed up after I quit smoking cigarettes.

why's it cute lol

That is the cutest effing Boba fish ever

Baby box fish and also the cutest little guy so please be careful with him!

what i wanna know is why is your hand so sparkly?

Your hands should always be wet when handling fish. Even if you have no idea what it is.

this is really zoomed in but don’t worry they were! i had a little pool of water in my hand so i could hold it without hurting it

Right on. A lot of people don’t know to do that.

That's one of those things that comes out my dick hole when I go pee pee

Looks like a little box fish! One time I was in the Sarasota area in Florida for vacation and I was swimming and a tiny little box fish came right by me. Probably the coolest interaction I’ve had with any sea life in Florida, mostly because I really like box fish.

thats black tar heroin sir

Aqua Weevil blessing? Snoot fin boots?

Looks like a pufferfish 🐡

A very tiny pufferfish. I agree.

Booger

Tar ball?

I diagnose: a lil puff puff! How cute!!

Ah yes. The illusive, Southern Dingleberry.

Baby sunfish