Brackish inverts??
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My girlfriend has talked me into starting a BW tank for a dwarf puffer. She also happens to LOVE having ghost shrimp.
Does dwarf puffer + ghost shrimp = well fed puffer?
Does dwarf puffer + ghost shrimp = well fed puffer?
Dwarf Puffers are full fresh water tho. Please check the speices you are getting. My Dwarfs dont touch my ghost shrimp. Check out my DP tank in my Sig.
Dwarf puffers are NOT brackish. Check out www.dwarfpuffers.com for info on how to keep them. There is also a forum there for you to post questions.
DO NOT keep them with salt in your water for longer than it requires to do an ich treatment (2-3 weeks)!
DP personalities are highly variable, so one will attack ghost shrimp on sight, while others will leave them alone. For example, my male dp ignores snails, will even sleep next to them, while my female attacks and eats them with glee! I used to have ghost shrimp with mine, until they all died due to an accident with root tab fertilizers. I found the last body with all its legs pulled off, so I'm thinking they've learned to see shrimp as food and I can no longer keep them in the same tank.
Ghost shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus is the species almost all stores carry) are also NOT brackish. There is a brackish species of Palaemonetes, but they are much harder to come by.
DO NOT keep them with salt in your water for longer than it requires to do an ich treatment (2-3 weeks)!
DP personalities are highly variable, so one will attack ghost shrimp on sight, while others will leave them alone. For example, my male dp ignores snails, will even sleep next to them, while my female attacks and eats them with glee! I used to have ghost shrimp with mine, until they all died due to an accident with root tab fertilizers. I found the last body with all its legs pulled off, so I'm thinking they've learned to see shrimp as food and I can no longer keep them in the same tank.
Ghost shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus is the species almost all stores carry) are also NOT brackish. There is a brackish species of Palaemonetes, but they are much harder to come by.
Thanks everyone for the advice. I just learned that some puffers are full FW like DP's, some are BW, and some fish are FW/BW as juveniles and are full marine as adults (Monodactylus spp.)
I only started researching BW a few days ago since my girlfriend took an interest in this pea puffer she saw at a LFS. She didn't have an interest in aquaria untill we moved in together (...and all these aquariums just started appearing out of no where!!!:laugh: )
I plan to have a reef or at least a marine aquarium some time next year (from what I can tell it's gonna take about that long to learn enough to be successful and have thriving coral :dive: )
I think I'll see if I can talk her into another type of puffer especially since I want the experience of keeping BW as it should help with keeping a marine tank later on...
Any suggestions??? I was thinking about keeping it in this empty 27 gal. hex tank I have just sitting there looking lonely.
Thanks for everyones help in advance, I am not worthy :bowing:
I only started researching BW a few days ago since my girlfriend took an interest in this pea puffer she saw at a LFS. She didn't have an interest in aquaria untill we moved in together (...and all these aquariums just started appearing out of no where!!!:laugh: )
I plan to have a reef or at least a marine aquarium some time next year (from what I can tell it's gonna take about that long to learn enough to be successful and have thriving coral :dive: )
I think I'll see if I can talk her into another type of puffer especially since I want the experience of keeping BW as it should help with keeping a marine tank later on...
Any suggestions??? I was thinking about keeping it in this empty 27 gal. hex tank I have just sitting there looking lonely.
Thanks for everyones help in advance, I am not worthy :bowing:
She will love a figure8 puffer and about 6 bumblebee gobies.. that would be sweet in that tank.. Brackish at about 1.005-1.008
The "elusive nerite" is the olive nerite snail. They are available at AZgardens.com and I would highly recommend them as they are excellent cleaners and will not eat plants. They are $0.79 each with a minimum order of 12. Also, I'm not sure about this, but wouldn't the fiddler crab be a brackish invert?
i think they are indeed, however they need a good deal of dry space to hang out of the water, kinda like a mudskipper.
also depending on you SG, even some marine inverts like shrimp and crabs will be able to hang with brackish. my SG is about 1.016-1.018, and i would have a good deal of inverts if it wasnt for the moray eel .
also depending on you SG, even some marine inverts like shrimp and crabs will be able to hang with brackish. my SG is about 1.016-1.018, and i would have a good deal of inverts if it wasnt for the moray eel .
Can you please elaborate on the marine inverts that can live in brackish water? My SG isn't as high as yours; it is about .012. Are there any cool marine inverts that could tolerate that?