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Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:57 pm
by Reaperpilot2014
RVS wrote:
Reaperpilot2014 wrote:you can always open a new thread.
Umm that´s right!
i will look for this info on the web, if i don't find any i will ask for it, but if i find it i will share it! :D
I hope you didn't take offense, as none was intended. :)

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:48 pm
by RVS
+1

YES! and Yes again! WC in BW are a very common work, maybe twice or tree timer per week.. ¿how to reduce this job?: With a SW equipment, i still remember PP recommend me to use a Skimer to help the Canister, when i did that, the aquarium looks like brand new, it´s the best step for a BW and should be done from the beginning.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:02 am
by Pufferpunk
Skimmers barely works at all in BW.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:15 am
by RTR
BW fish in general are an issue because nobody can match their environment in semi-closed systems. So we opt for stability at an arbitrary specific gravity. FYI, 1.022 can be considered or defined as SW or marine. The density of the Red Sea is not required for marine conditions, and most SW do live longer and healthier in rather light SW, so 1.021/1.022 are generally accepted and do allow LR critters to function.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:15 am
by DrKennethNoisewater
good to know a full salt setup will save you money. that is definitely not the immediate assumption as all the initial costs of the SW are so great. but i can see how in the long run it saves you money. when you have fish like GSP's that live for so long it is very important to consider the long run.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:36 am
by geronimo69
There's one thing that jumped out at me...

They say you can house a Ceylon with Mollies or Bumble Bee Gobbies... Good luck. My Ceylon will NOT LIVE with anything.

When you click on the link "Ceylon Puffer"... It brings you to a page that calls a Ceylon a "green spotted puffer". This is wrong. A Ceylon is Tetraodon Fluviatilis, not Tetraodon Nigrivitis (or whatever).

Perhaps a GSP can live with others, but a Ceylon will not. Not in the 5 years I've had mine anyways.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:39 am
by Pufferpunk
These are only suggestions--it all depends on the aggression of the individual puffer. My fahaka lives with a tank full of different fish.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:45 am
by sevenyearnight
Balki would be lost without his silly little molly friend.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:57 pm
by RVS
Yes! Mollys are nice friends! my GSP has lived their entire life until now with P. sphenops.
But this depends on the puffer´s personality, just like PP said.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:20 pm
by Woland
My GSP Izabella has now lived in BW around 1.012 for 8+ years.
Still thriving, and ripping the occational Molly apart...

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Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:42 pm
by Arny
Woland wrote:My GSP Izabella has now lived in BW around 1.012 for 8+ years.
Still thriving, and ripping the occational Molly apart...

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Wow nice gsp, she looks very healthy

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:53 pm
by sgtmyers88
How big?

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:09 pm
by Iliveinazoo
Thanks for posting Woland, opinions on this forum have become very one-sided when it comes to GSP's and salinity. It's nice to see that your GSP is looking so healthy at SG1.012.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:58 pm
by Woland
sgtmyers88 wrote:How big?
Have not measured her for years.
Not very big.

Re: Starting a Brackish Aquarium!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:23 pm
by bertie 83
In full marine it may have hit it's full size? Hmm I guess this one is still open for debate?