Salt and plants?
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You will definitely have to use marine salt, notaquarium salt, in a brackish tank. Also, if your tank is cycled and cycled as fresh water, you can not increase the salinity more than 0.2 per week or even slower without killing your bacteria. Never just add it to the tank, you need to dissolve it in water before adding.
Most plants will not make it in a brackish tank... sorry... I just learned that from a question posted on this board previously... I was hoping to set up a brackish and planted tank myself, since a web page advertised plants for use in a brackish set up, but that was corrected by RTR on this board.
As to the final sg of your tank I am not sure, hopefully someone else can answer the target sg for BB gobies.
I hope this helps you a bit.
Most plants will not make it in a brackish tank... sorry... I just learned that from a question posted on this board previously... I was hoping to set up a brackish and planted tank myself, since a web page advertised plants for use in a brackish set up, but that was corrected by RTR on this board.
As to the final sg of your tank I am not sure, hopefully someone else can answer the target sg for BB gobies.
I hope this helps you a bit.
Low end brackish tanks will be able to keep java fern, hornwort and water sprite. But once the SG goes over 1.010 then things just melt away. I don't know what SG Bumble Bee Gobies need. Raise your SG 0.002 per week I think, not 0.2. You will need Marine mix salt and something to measure specific Gravity (SG). The sooner you get started the better off the bumble bee gobies will be.
plants that do well in fresh and salt water
mangroves trees if pruned to keep them small gro well in all water conditions
brckish water is usaly were a fresh water river meats the sea verry good conditions for salmon and crabs and mandgove trees there is probly a heep of other stuff you could use aswell .. mangrove trees with there big roots give a verry natural looking planted display in there own rite the benifits of mangroves are nitrate & phosphate removal ..
mangroves trees if pruned to keep them small gro well in all water conditions
brckish water is usaly were a fresh water river meats the sea verry good conditions for salmon and crabs and mandgove trees there is probly a heep of other stuff you could use aswell .. mangrove trees with there big roots give a verry natural looking planted display in there own rite the benifits of mangroves are nitrate & phosphate removal ..
