New to Brackish...need suggestions....

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tenacity85

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Okay, so I've moved into my apartment down here at school...and the first major purchase was a fish tank...
It's a 29 gallon, and I want to go brackish...I'm using seachem livebearer/brackish aquarium salt (suggested by lfs). The tank has been set up for a week, and is on the verge of being done cycling...
I've been keeping freshies forever....but brackish seems to be a whole new ballgame....

So far on the Shopping list:
- driftwood
- rocks for caves
- hydrometer
- more plants

The fish I would like to include in this tank are a green spotted puffer or two, and some bumblebee gobies....any suggestions/contradictions/ideas would be welcome

Thanks
 
The Seachem aquarium salt will not produce BW. For that you need to be using marine mix. The 29 can serve only as permanent home to one GSP, and the bumblebees would not like the high BW-SW that the GSPs will do better in as adults, even if they don't get eaten. A couple of Figure-8s would be fine in light BW forever, and will frequently co-exist with bumblebees (which serve a bit to clean up after the messy eating puffers).

For more details, see: http://www.thepufferforum.org/

Go to the Library section there to find good articles on both GSPs and F-8s.
 
Cool....I have actually been debating between GSP and F-8...good to know the info....
 
I have a figure-8 (P-Diddy my only named fish)) and have had him for 10 months and appears to be happy and healthy. Lives in a 10 gallon with brackish water with a pH of 8.6. It is decorated with Texas Holey Rock and some artificial plants.
I have tried tank mates but he ate them all so he/she lives alone.
I feed him snails, ghost shrimp, brine shrimp, blood worms, and the occasional frozen krill (not his favorite).
He will come up and pull the snails off of the tip of my finger when I feed him. He is a great fish and full of personality. My daughter love watching him hunt the ghost shrimp.

One thing I forgot to mention. Be prepared to take care of all algae maintenance in the tank. There are no real algae eaters that I know of for a brackish tank other than snails. The problem with that is that they are my F-8's favorite meal. So be prepared to do all algae maintenance for the tank. I have to clean the glass, plants, and decorations about every two to three weeks.
I clean the glass with a magnetic scrubber. As far as decoration I put them in some bleach water then scrub them. After that I soak and rinse them well in water with extra dechlorinator. When I smell the piece and no longer smell the bleach smell it goes into the tank.
 
i've heard that otos can sometimes be kept with puffers because they're so small they can go unnoticed. don't know if they would be okay in brackish though.
 
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