Hi I'm quite new to alot of this. I've sucessfully kept a smaller marine tank in the past though that was some time ago. Right now I have a 10 gallon tank with 2 very small yellow lab cichlids in it, and a 29 gallon tank that they will move into once i've completed building the stand for it. my question really is regarding puffers, particularly the green spotted ones. Would it be possilbe to make the 10 gallon tank I currently have into a brackish tank after the cichlids move out of in. I had read several places that a 10 gallon would be sufficient to house 1 green spotted puffer for the first year or so of its life provided it had rocks and such to hide around, and then moving it to a larger tank would be required. Would this be feasible? could he use the same water as the small cichlids are using which has a buffer keeping the pH around 8.3? Any thoughts/info/instructions on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Regarding freshwater set up moving to brackish
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Welcome to Aquaria Central! You will find wealths of info here especially on puffs. It sounds feasible to me. One single adult will need at least a 29G when adult if not a little bigger. Just be sure to feed snails and hard shelled inverts to keep teeth in check. Again welcome!
Your lfs is probably keeping it in FW (ask them) so you can start raising the specific gravity to .002. Raise it
Your lfs is probably keeping it in FW (ask them) so you can start raising the specific gravity to 1.002. Raise it .002 more, every weekly water change, until you reach about 1.008. For this, you'll need marine salt & a hydrometer. Otherwise, it's not much different than FW.