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Alright. So when setting up a brackish tank you're not supposed to use regular aquarium salt, but rather, salt meant for salt water tanks. A popular example being Instant Ocean. However. How about when you're not necessarily doing brackish but you 'salt' your livebearers or goldfish. In this...

Do you mean with f8 puffers? I'm not looking specifically for cichlids here. If I wanted that, I could simply do a variety in any type of fw setup. I was just thinking the kribs would be interesting, as I've never owned them before, and this might be a chance to 'work them in'. But it sounds...

I have an empty 40 gallon tank (36x18x15) and was thinking about finally taking the leap and doing a brackish set-up. I've been doing lots of reading and research on everything from appropriate substrates to different types of fish and so forth. I was actually quite surprised to see that there...