Looking To Switch To Brackish.

[Hughes]

Hallu! I'm thinking of converting my 29 gal freshwater tank into a brackish tank, but I'm not going to if I have to kill off all the fish I have.

I have:

1 Balloon molly
4 ADF's
4 Cories
2 Pleco's
2 Red tailed sharks (Not sure if that REALLY their name... I'll find a Pic in a moment...)


I have another question, supposing I didn't switch to brackish, would I still be able to add a puffer or two to this tank?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Hallu! I'm thinking of converting my 29 gal freshwater tank into a brackish tank, but I'm not going to if I have to kill off all the fish I have.

I have:

1 Balloon molly
4 ADF's
4 Cories
2 Pleco's
2 Red tailed sharks (Not sure if that REALLY their name... I'll find a Pic in a moment...)


I have another question, supposing I didn't switch to brackish, would I still be able to add a puffer or two to this tank?

Thanks for the help!

Kill off isnt the word Id use, Id take them back to the LFS. If you are serious about starting brackish I would read through all the pinned topics at the top of the brackish section of TFF.

Id take all the fish you have back to the LFS as none of them are really salt tollerent apart from the molly but id take that back too if you want a puffer.

In a tank your size with adequate filtration id put 1 Figure 8 Puffer and maybe 8-12 BBG (providing you can give them territorial spaces)

 

[nmonks]

All depends on how brackish you wish to go. Mollies are fully euryhaline and will be fine at even seawater salinity.

Some plecs are salt-tolerant, and will do fine at SG 1.003, making them perfectly suitable for low-end systems alongside, say, figure-8 puffers, knight gobies and orange chromides. Hypostomus plecostomus for example is common in the brackish water canals in Florida. Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus, one of the very common sailfin plecs sold as the "common plec" in England is another salt-tolerant species, as is Pterygoplichthys pardalis.

But not all plecs are salt tolerant, so you do need to do some research to precisely ID the species you have.

Cheers, Neale