Shockingly enough I see a 14" "FW" moray eel in a 10g tank. So I snatched him up quickly as possible, slowly acclimated to a already cycled 55g tank. How can I slowly and safely bring the salinity up to a appropriate level? what other fish can live with a moray in a 55g along with possible plants. :1zhelp:
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only raise the sg by .002 a week. go very slowly. if the tank was cycled then it kills the fw bacteria and you have to start the cycle all over.
You added salt to kill ich but it was way less than the amount needed to actually raise the SG of your tank water.
Depending on the level of salinity you want to get to you will probably not be able to keep plants. Pretty much all plants sold are freshwater only. If you live near a brackish area you might be able to collect plants yourself.
Also make sure to buy marine mix salt, not freshwater aquaium salt. Products like Instant ocean work good. And get something to measure the SG of the water as well. You can't just guess.
Depending on the level of salinity you want to get to you will probably not be able to keep plants. Pretty much all plants sold are freshwater only. If you live near a brackish area you might be able to collect plants yourself.
Also make sure to buy marine mix salt, not freshwater aquaium salt. Products like Instant ocean work good. And get something to measure the SG of the water as well. You can't just guess.
did you use aquarium salt to treat ich or a synthitic salt mix? sw and fw have different BB. thats all i know. pufferpunk knows how to turn a tank brackish.
i used table salt to treat for ick. ive owned some pretty high end coral tanks in the past, i've only been doing freshwater for about a year in a half. i wanna make sure that i do the proccess slowly and cause the least ammount of stress as possible. on my old reef tanks i only did 10% WC weekly but corals and cleanup crews were the only livestock. is 10% good for a brackish tank or should i change that
that should be fine. i know for puffers i would do more because of messy eating. i would not use table salt. get oceanic or some type of salt.
eventually you should raise the salinity higher than 1.005. At least 1.010 would be better as it is much more of a marine animal than freshwater.