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Toirtis Mega Fish Posts: 1260 Kudos: 529 Votes: 6 Registered: 24-Feb-2003	Ropefish can survive mild brackish conditions, but are actually FW fish. Archers get huge (10"+), so even two would be cramped in a 55 alone (plus, you really should give archers a proper tank with lots of overhanging plants that they can hunt from). Mudskippers do best on their own, or mostly on their own, and different species of mudskippers can have quite different space requirements.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
pufferpunk Big Fish Posts: 462 Kudos: 395 Votes: 0 Registered: 21-Feb-2003	Some of the fish you have picked willl prefer high-end BW & SW as adults. Not so for many of the other fish you have picked.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	Rainbows would definately be food for most of those fish, to include the knife, morays, cats, and tiger dat. I don't think silver dollars are brackish, but I might be wrong.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	so far the tank will be around 250gallons and heres what im putting init 1 tiger datnoid 2 archers 2 morayeels 4-8 needlefish 4 columbian shark catfish 1 asian knife fish 3 dragon gobies silver dollars? rainbowfish? 1 pufferfish for some reason i was under the impression that silver dollars were sometimes in brackish will the rainbowfish get eaten if there all around 4" ill have plenty of hiding spots in rocks ranging from top to bottom that are pretty deep
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	The clown knife isn't a brackish fish, and also grows to three feet long very quickly.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	thanks! since they are closely related and are way easier to find would a clown knife work Last edited by resle at 27-Oct-2004 20:51
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AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	Notopterus notopterus, the Asiatic or Common Knifefish lives in brackish waters.
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Toirtis Mega Fish Posts: 1260 Kudos: 529 Votes: 6 Registered: 24-Feb-2003	what is H. severus? Green severum.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	what is H. severus????
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AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	Not all brackish water is very alkaline, look at the Amazon delta. H. severus lives there in softer brackish waters...
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
pufferpunk Big Fish Posts: 462 Kudos: 395 Votes: 0 Registered: 21-Feb-2003	I was under the impression that knives came from soft, acid waters--the opposite of BW.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	i gave up on this idea and now im going to get 125-200gal what knife would live in BW? What kind of rainbowfish are you wondering about? Some will live in brackish water quite well, while some will not. Same with the knife fish, what kind do you have? Last edited by resle at 23-Oct-2004 15:39
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	No, but I implied it. Yes, but I didn't, so I suppose you should be reminding yourself instead of me .
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
devon7 Big Fish Posts: 475 Kudos: 356 Votes: 4 Registered: 31-Aug-2004	mudskippers scare me
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
resle Enthusiast Posts: 273 Kudos: 112 Votes: 14 Registered: 09-Oct-2004	here are some stocking ideas first is to put 2 archerfish, 6 crabs, 2-5 needle fish, 2-5 four eyed fish(maybe), 1-2 pufferfish, 4 shark catfish(non optional),either 1 freshwater moray eel or 2 rope fish, 3 mudskippers (id obviosly have a beach) for my 55 gallon 0r put 5-8 half beaks,4-10 gobies, 3 crabs, 1 mudskipper(also with a beach) for my 20 id also like to know if these fish can be converted to brackish -rainbow -blue gourami -tetras -knife fish ( i know someone already answered this but i need to know how much they can take)
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	No, but I implied it.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Yeah, many refer to blue eyes as threadfins in the bizz. Also, I don't believe I ever stated there were multiple species of threadfins. Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 18-Oct-2004 23:52
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	Sorry, I meant silverside rainbows. I wrote threadfin not thinking. The threadfin rainbow (there's just one species, not multiple ones) is a freshwater fish.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Blue eyes and black banded rainbows are the only melans that I know of which are found in BW conditions. I was always told threadfins were the most sensitive of the rainbows in regards to salinity and pH, so i'm not so sure about that. I need to read more into it, though.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
AggieMarine Mega Fish Posts: 1364 Kudos: 229 Votes: 12 Registered: 16-Apr-2002	Some threadfin rainbows are commonly found in brackish streams, but Pufferpunk is right, they would certainly end up as a moray snack.
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