What kind of fish did I buy????

the LFS had it in freshwater with other fish and they called it a dragon fish and told me to feed it flakes...i hope we are not hurting them by keeping them in freshwater
 
well, some gobies can adapt short term to FW. (actually some gobies are FW but moving on) but long term, yeah, I'm sorry, it's not going to be good for him.
 
thank you so much...i will return them tomorrow.....you have been an awesome help..i do not like hurting any creatures (except spiders) on purpose or accident...and my children cry everytime a fish dies.

can you suggest any other type of elongated (eel like) fish for FW?
 
you might loook into what loaches are available in your area like TPIR said, although I think that was in the other thread. You'll want to avoid clowns, they get big, you can find some eels taht stay a little smaller.
 
i looked up the kuhli loach and we have an undergravel filtration and a rocky substrate...both are bad for that specific kind of loach

see...i do my homework if i know what i'm looking for....lol
 
The LFS might now know that the Dragon Goby is brackish - the only way they would was if their distributor told them - ours didn't.
 
I just got off the phone with the LFS that sold me the gobys and he has 4 tanks of his own at home SW and FW he said 2 things that don't make sense to me...1 is that i can slowly make my tank brackish and it won't hurt my other fish...and 2 that the gobys and live happily in my FW because i bought him from a FW tank....he did say that i could bring them back and get store credit....i was thinking that would be best but getting confused again. i don't want to deal with a brackish tank at this time...i'm still not used to FW...lol
 
You other fish are freshwater fish. They should not be forced into a brackish water life. And the gobies should live in brackish water. So either get another tank or take them back. They will start to slowly die without the needed salts in the water. And that doesn't mean adding regular salt to the water either. It means adding marine salt mixes to the water and keeping it at a steady specific gravity. Brackish tanks can be some of the hardest to keep.
 
that 's what i was thinking....defintely gonna take them back this evening...thanks so much
 
As a side note (not a snide note, though that might also be appropriate...), your experiences with this LFS employee suggest that anything he or she says should be evaluated quite skeptically. Anyone who says FW fish can adapt to brackish conditions or vice versa possesses suspect fishkeeping common sense, in my book.

Good luck,
Jim
 
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