Q's Setting up Mini Brackish Tank.

yea I was using instant ocean. It was in fresh water tank at the LFS then in fresh water tank at my house untill I setup a 3 gallon for him, in emergency (he was not doing well) I had added a whole Tablesppon of salt tot he tank.

He perked right up and was much happer untill today...Then over the next 3 days I raised the gravity to 1.004

After somoene replied in this post to raise it higher I have been adding one teaspon of salt per day. The guppies and trumphet snails are fine, in fact the gobie was eating bloodworms just last night.

All of a sudden tonight he just died.

Since I just spent a fortune on setting up this small brackish tank Hydrometer, marine salt, heck I jsut got a java fern today...are there any other brackish fish I could put in a 3 gallon? Should I trie bumblebee gobies again? he was not in the best shape at the petstore but after his fins healed up I thought he was getting better...Guess not, his friend died as well when he jumped out of the other tank when I was sleeping last week... (I had seperated him into one of those tiny tanks overnight since he was acting like this one was tonight) The first one died the night I bought the sea salt Instant Ocean stuff)
 
yea I was using instant ocean. It was in fresh water tank at the LFS then in fresh water tank at my house untill I setup a 3 gallon for him, in emergency (he was not doing well) I had added a whole Tablespon of salt to the tank.

He perked right up and was much happer untill today...Then over the next 3 days I raised the gravity to 1.004

After somoene replied in this post to raise it higher I have been adding one teaspon of salt per day. The guppies and trumphet snails are fine, in fact the gobie was eating bloodworms just last night.

All of a sudden tonight he just died.

Since I just spent a fortune on setting up this small brackish tank Hydrometer, marine salt, heck I jsut got a java fern today...are there any other brackish fish I could put in a 3 gallon? Should I trie bumblebee gobies again? he was not in the best shape at the petstore but after his fins healed up I thought he was getting better...Guess not, his friend died as well when he jumped out of the other tank when I was sleeping last week... (I had seperated him into one of those tiny tanks overnight since he was acting like this one was tonight) The first one died the night I bought the sea salt Instant Ocean stuff).


Again the other fish all seem fine so I dunno...Maybe he really was a freshwater Bumble bee Gobie
 
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One thing that springs to mind is most LFS's don't bother trying to feed bumble bee gobies anything other than flake food (which they almost never eat), from my experience whenever I've bought bumble bee gobies they've been in poor condition, likely due to being extremely malnourished. I have one survivor out of the 3 I bought a few weeks back, at the time the only readily available live food I had was some gambusia fry, sadly only one goby was strong enough to chase them down, by the time I had artemia ready the other two were pretty close to dead.
 
I totaly agree, my LFS probably does not provide species specific care for many cheap fish, but when they sell BB gobies at a buck each or 5 for $4, they moved a whole batch in less than a week.

Mine was eating blood worms.

Would adding a tsp of marine salt a day be too fast for a 3 gallon tank?

It's posisbly he was jsut too stressed and sick to make it, and me not imeadiatly setting up the brackish tank (ordering supplies online and reading info about it) probably did not help either.

Are Bumble Bee gobies pretty much the only brackish fish small enough to keep in this 3 gallon cause I have no reason to keep it brackish for guppys and ghost shrimps...I wasent planing on keeping them int he tank forever int he first place.
 
Yeah there aren't many brackish fish that will stay small besides the BBGs. Maybe some dalmation mollies or something.
 
dang after all this I might just get a dwarf puffer for it..

Not sure if i can leave the coral substrate though.

All I would have is a useless hydrometer (used it a few times lol)
Oh well I guess.

I need to find out a little more about the dwarfs, like if they need crunchies like regular puffers
 
Or a fiddler crab and a pair of Bumble bee Gobies in a 10 gal that would have about 5-7 gal. What temp do the gobies need, how do they deal in salinity changes once used to brackish again?
 
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