Brackish water world, let’s begin!

[The guppy guru]

On this thread we will discuss about the general brackish water fish that would look absolutely wonderful in a reef. Some of these include guppies, mollies, sword tails, some species of danios, some species of kilifish, mono fish, green spotted puffer, figure 8 puffer, scatts, dragon goby, bumblebee goby, bumblebee grouper, and a small species of moray eel. All of these fish can live in freshwater and saltwater thought some of these may not fare well in saltwater so keep this in mind fish like guppies and mollies, aren’t as strong as they use to be. But fish like the grouper and mono fish need to live their adult lives in saltwater to extend their life time.

 

[The guppy guru]

If you have any questions just type them down below, and I will answer them.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Following.

 

[OrionN]

what is your experience with Figure 8 Puffer? How do they fare in reef tank? Will they chew on corals? How about fast moving water?
TIA

 

[nereefpat]

Any difference between m. sebae or agentus on how they fare in our tanks? What's a tank size recommendation? At what size can monos go full salt, or does it matter?

 

[The guppy guru]

what is your experience with Figure 8 Puffer? How do they fare in reef tank? Will they chew on corals? How about fast moving water?
TIA

A figure 8 puffer and green spotted puffer will not eat thru your coral thought they will go after small inverts so watch out for that.

 

[The guppy guru]

A mono fish should start being acclimated into saltwater when they are juveniles, salinity starting at 1.008 specific gravity and then slowly over the coarse of about 1-2 months. You can calculate how much salinity you should increase every day but I don't know the equation to do so, so for that you should do a little more research. Hope I was able to solve some questions have a great day, and remember if you have any questions type them down below and I will answer with as much truthfulness as I can.

 

[The guppy guru]

Monos also need a tank of around 125 gallons or more ( for a single one.) . The differences that I could find between m. sebae and argentus, is that argentus seems to get slightly larger than the sebae. The color and patterns on the fish are also noticeably different. But both require the same transitional period which should be slow, if you do this to quickly the fish could get ill or even die.

 

[The guppy guru]

If you have any question just type them down below. The only dum questions are the ones you don’t ask.

 

[The guppy guru]

what is your experience with Figure 8 Puffer? How do they fare in reef tank? Will they chew on corals? How about fast moving water?
TIA

In my experience figure 8 puffers are pretty reef safe with the exception of small to medium inverts. They can handle the flow well but I do not recommend keeping them in a high flow tank, they might get tiered and become food for more aggressive fish.

 

[The guppy guru]

If you have questions just type them down below.

 

[BullyBee]

My wife wants mudskippers. I was gonna do a split tank of a figure 8 w/ mudskippers but then decided to do a salt putter and just dedicate a tank to mudskippers.

 

[The guppy guru]

My wife wants mudskippers. I was gonna do a split tank of a figure 8 w/ mudskippers but then decided to do a salt putter and just dedicate a tank to mudskippers.

Wow mudskippers haven’t kept those in a while. That’s cool I really think mudskippers are very cool, and what species of puffer did you get for your saltwater tank instead?

 

[BullyBee]

Wow mudskippers haven’t kept those in a while. That’s cool I really think mudskippers are very cool, and what species of puffer did you get for your saltwater tank instead?

I’m still setting it up but it’s gonna be a valentini. I don’t have room for anything bigger

 

[The guppy guru]

I’m still setting it up but it’s gonna be a valentini. I don’t have room for anything bigger

Well I give you the best of luck, stay safe and happy reefing.

 

[BZOFIQ]

These forget about mother nature and bring freshwater fish into your reef tank threads pop up like a bad case of hair algae. I had few questions in the other thread you've never answered.

 

[BullyBee]

Well I give you the best of luck, stay safe and happy reefing.

The only problem is I can’t source them in Canada! Back home in NY I could have Atleast had em shipped to me.

 

[The guppy guru]

These forget about mother nature and bring freshwater fish into your reef tank threads pop up like a bad case of hair algae. I had few questions in the other thread you've never answered.

Then give me your questions I have no excuses for not answering them before, I made this new thread to start from scratch and keep better track of all questions, so what are your questions? I will answer them.

 

[The guppy guru]

These forget about mother nature and bring freshwater fish into your reef tank threads pop up like a bad case of hair algae. I had few questions in the other thread you've never answered.

Do you know who else forgot about Mother Nature humans. Mollies and guppies aren’t from freshwater how many times do I have to explain this. We ( humans ) decided that since they could tolerate being in freshwater this means they can live happily in freshwater. And what happened we do as humans do best, and now they’re weak can’t even live in their old home without it taking a long time to be able to go back. Who are you to speak up for brackish water fish? Theses threads are to raise awareness of the issue of human involvement in changing species. We made a mistake it’s our responsibility, as the aggressor to fix what we have done, did you even do research on these fish? If so what 1940 book did you read where it says that freshwater is good for these fish? My point is if you don’t like them then why are you here? Just leave ignore these because hating on them and sending out rude sarcastic messages isn’t going to “ save the fish”, you must think that nature let these fish into freshwater and said “ good luck”.

 

[BZOFIQ]

Please quote the literature that states guppies are a saltwater species. Are you saying that every book I own is wrong?

You should do a TED talk and enlighten the masses.