Help!! brackish ??s

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Cdubbz

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I currently have a 55g with 1 clown pleco 1 devil pleco and 1 hujeta gar. the gar is the biggest at about 2.5 inches. I went today to the LFS just to look around but unfourtunatly bought a fish. i got a knight goby. the LFS told me it was freshwater so i thought i would get it since it looked cool. I came home and started to look up on it, which i should have done before i purchased it (newbie mistake):duh: . I found out that it is a brackish fish and will do best with some salt.

My ?s are :

What is the best salt to make the tank brackish?

Will the other tankmates be able to live in those water conditions with salt?

Will i have to change mysubstrate from gravel to sand?

Has anyone had experience with knight gobys ( fan dancer gobys)?
 
to make Brackish water you need Marine salt. The other fish cannot live in brackish water. You can use gravel,but the gobie prefers sand because it is a sand sifter.
 
Cdubbz said:
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I currently have a 55g with 1 clown pleco 1 devil pleco and 1 hujeta gar. the gar is the biggest at about 2.5 inches.
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What is the best salt to make the tank brackish?
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Marine salt. You can't use table salt or anything like that. Marine salt will buffer the wate also, for a brackish tank, most fish will appreciate the water being hard and alkaline. To measure the level of salinity you will need either a hydrometer or refractometer,

Will the other tankmates be able to live in those water conditions with salt?
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Most certainly not.

Will i have to change mysubstrate from gravel to sand?
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It certainly wouldn't hurt.

Has anyone had experience with knight gobys ( fan dancer gobys)?
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I've kept quite a few brackish gobies, but I haven't kept Knight's (yet)
 
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