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	Knight gobies
smantzer Big Fish Posts: 378 Kudos: 347 Votes: 10 Registered: 02-Nov-2004	At my petsmart, I saw knight gobies in with platys and mollies! I asked the man, "Aren't they brackish water?" and he said, "Yes, but they're adapted to fresh" ... could they really live healthily that way?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
pufferpunk Big Fish Posts: 462 Kudos: 395 Votes: 0 Registered: 21-Feb-2003	Any BW fish can be forced into fresh (or FW fish-BW, or SW-BW), but its immune system will be compromised, if kept in FW long-term, causing diseases & early death.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
malawianpro Fingerling Posts: 48 Kudos: 29 Votes: 0 Registered: 11-Nov-2004	That was the way my violet goby was sold to me, and one LFS i saw was selling BBG's in FW, said> " people don't look at BW as much as FW, so they put them in FW".-LFS gotta make money
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28
switchbladeclownloach Hobbyist Posts: 96 Kudos: 114 Votes: 0 Registered: 07-Dec-2004	brachish I have one and it does fine in brackish use to have it in fresh and it got a disease so I looked on sites saw that it was bw so I moved it to my brackish tank and it recocered perfectly
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:28


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