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Tain't fresh, and tain't marine! Talk about brackish setups.
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can plants and corrys live in brackish water?
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not sure but look for the article by pufferpunk about Brackish Plants in this forum thatshould help if you can find a place that sells em.
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i have a few live plant now theyre FW but i also got Corkscrews err something like that theyre are FW and BW they were the only BW plant my LFS had. prolly can order em online. corkscrews are dirt cheap i paid 99c each and they grow tall too.
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Cories are strictly FW.

There are some plants that are okay in BW. Look in the BW forum for a sticky on plants.
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Many species of plants will survive at low brackish conditions - do a search for brackish plants on this forum and i'm sure that lots of ideas will come up.

I think that cory's are freshwater.
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Cory's are sensitive to salt and are pure freshwater. Most with brackish tanks that are successful with plants I have seen run co2 and substrate like eco-complete, and high lighting. I have tried to grow many brackish plants and have had no luck and my sg is 1.005
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I have moss balls & java moss in my BW tank. Seem to be doing fine so far. Everything else is fake.
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I had a cory die from aquarium salt. Big mistake
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Cories don't tolerate any salt at all for a long period of time. They can survive for a very short time, i.e. when using salt as medication. But they are South-American fishes, and need soft water with a PH below zero. Keeping them in salt will kill them. So, no, they will not survive in BW.
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That would be cool to have a brackish cory but nada.
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Troender, a pH below zero? Isn't that... unsafe?
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Pretty sure she meant neutral.
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Pufferpunk wrote:Pretty sure she meant neutral.
That'd be my guess, but I'm having great mental images of Cories swimming around a tank, happily, surrounded by skeleton after skeleton of melted fish.
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:redface: I meant below 7. Why do I keep saying this? It's not the first time either. :redface:
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Malabar Front wrote:
Pufferpunk wrote:Pretty sure she meant neutral.
That'd be my guess, but I'm having great mental images of Cories swimming around a tank, happily, surrounded by skeleton after skeleton of melted fish.
haha, at least i'm not the only one who got that image in their head.
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