Hello AC, this will be my first thread on here and would like to thank you in advance for any help you all can give me now or in the future.
I am in the process of setting up a mudskipper tank and have 4 skips awaiting me at my LFS.
I was reading some threads on here and I noticed that someone has their skippers in FW. All the research I have been doing has pointed me in the direction that they are brackish. Now the other thing that baffles me about this is the fact that when I told my buddy at the LFS that I was going to be putting them in brackish he asked why, and stated they would be fine in FW.
The LFS has had them there since Friday in tank water that has about a tablespoon per 5 gallons of salt in it. With the research I have done I was planning on giving them a salinity of 1.010, but was going to gradually raise the salinity over the period of about a month.
If I can put them in FW with no ill effects such as a shortened life-span I would like to do it but am not sure wether I can.
They are Vietnamese skippies, which I found is hard to find any information about them on the web. I figure they must be along the lines of the Indian skippies but just wanted to verify that.
Can anyone shed some light on wether I can keep them in FW?
I am in the process of setting up a mudskipper tank and have 4 skips awaiting me at my LFS.
I was reading some threads on here and I noticed that someone has their skippers in FW. All the research I have been doing has pointed me in the direction that they are brackish. Now the other thing that baffles me about this is the fact that when I told my buddy at the LFS that I was going to be putting them in brackish he asked why, and stated they would be fine in FW.
The LFS has had them there since Friday in tank water that has about a tablespoon per 5 gallons of salt in it. With the research I have done I was planning on giving them a salinity of 1.010, but was going to gradually raise the salinity over the period of about a month.
If I can put them in FW with no ill effects such as a shortened life-span I would like to do it but am not sure wether I can.
They are Vietnamese skippies, which I found is hard to find any information about them on the web. I figure they must be along the lines of the Indian skippies but just wanted to verify that.
Can anyone shed some light on wether I can keep them in FW?
