Brackish Water Set Up

[Fate2006]

Hey, I've never kept brackish water fish before (Unless guppies and mollies count), but I was wonder what exactly do I need to set one up? Like I know it requires salt, is it the same salt for setting up a marine tank? Any help or a link would be awsome

 

[nmonks]

Please see the pinned topics in this forum, or my Brackish FAQ at the link below. Or go buy my book!

http/homepage.mac.com/nmonks/aquaria/brackfaqpart1.html

Cheers, Neale

 

[Fate2006]

Thanks much ^^

Edit---> Now my question is, would a 10gallon tank work as a brackish water aquarium? or is that way too tiny?

 

[nmonks]

There are lots of good fish for a 10 gallon tank, particularly among the gobies. You could also keep wrestling halfbeaks, dwarf mosquitofish, pipefish, flatfish, and a variety of other small, relatively inactive species. For flatfish a sandy bottom tank is best, while pipefish prefer something with ornaments or plants to hide among.

But I'd recommend gobies with shrimps and Nerite snails, maybe with a few Endler guppies if you wanted, and then decorate the tank with rocks and shells to make something like a rockpool. At a higher SG, you could keep shrimps, Nerites, and even certain kinds of anemone (beadlet anemones) together with some brackish/saltwater gobies or blennies.

So, lots of possibilities.

Cheers, Neale

 

[mlawson]

I would recommend Wrestling halfbeaks or Bumblebee gobies.

 

[Fate2006]

Thanks much guys ^^ Now I know for when I set up my brackish tank