*Help!* 4-Bumblebee Gobies + First salty experience = 900,000 questions!

[Sploke]

If you are keeping them in brackish water, the salt should take care of it.

 

[dixienut]

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/McKane_Bumblebee_Gobies.html

check this out it the best manual for bbgobies looks like the ones you have can go fresh,..

 

[oO.Crim.Oo]

If you are keeping them in brackish water, the salt should take care of it.

Thanks Sploke. The tank is brackish, or at least salty. I'll know more as soon as the refractometer arrives. You think the salt will take care of the parasite and fin rot, too? Or just the ich?

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/McKane_Bumblebee_Gobies.html

check this out it the best manual for bbgobies looks like the ones you have can go fresh,..

Thanks Dixie! I have read that article a time or two. It doesn't particularly suggest that they should be kept in fresh water, but yet says that they can tolerate fresh water better than others. Knowing that (supposedly) they've been kept in brackish conditions by the previous owner, I think I'd prefer to keep them as they're used to. It seems as though the general consensus says they should be kept brackish. Maybe my way of thinking is wrong?...

 

[vampie]

Yes, the salt should indeed take care of the ich. Fin rot should heal on it's own with clean water, though Melafix wouldn't hurt.

The problem with BBG information on the web is that a lot of it is outdated and wrong, and then spread even further by hearsay and websites with generic fish profiles. They do equally well in either freshwater or brackish, and each does have it's own advantages - the former allows for a much larger selection of tankmates and plants, and the latter serves as a natural buffer and kills off ich, planaria and leeches that are associated with freshwater.