My Humble Setup

[myenigmaself]

Firstly I'd like to apologize for the quality of the pictures. I don't profess to be a photographer, and my camera is old and on it's way out. And the flash really accentuates the algae/blue contrast in the main tank. Without flash it looks much more "natural." Be kind please!

The main tank houses:
5 Figure-8 Puffers
10 Red Chromides
2 Sailfin Mollies
12 Bumblebee Gobies
1 Mystery Goby

Sump/Bottom tank:
2 Ghost Shrimp
~12 Red Cherry Shrimp
Countless Pond and Malaysian Trumpet Snails
Various plants, java moss, java fern, anuibus, pond scum, green algae, etc

See two cherry reds on the right, and a big ol' ghostie on the left:

Another cherry:

And a closer shot of the ghost shrimp and an mts:

 

[england]

looks very nice mate, nice to see this type of collection, iam guessing its a brakish set up?
the chormides look great, dont see these to often, so the sump is working?iam guessing yes as see the heating in the sump

 

[myenigmaself]

Thanks! Yeah, it's brackish, right around sg 1.004. I've had this setup since around last May, I think. Had the tank drilled and built a custom horizontal overflow box, and did the segmentation in the sump myself too. All in all it works pretty well

The chromides are awesome; probably the most active fish I've got.

Here are a couple more that have better color that I took with my phone:

 

[didz04]

That is really nice and I was considering brackish but that means bye bye tropical fish as all of them can't take brackish except for my malawis cichlids and long nose loach.
I was thinking of keeping green spotted puffers and knight goby and bumblebee goby, would this work? and maybe some molly's later.
I know you said about figure 8 puffers kept with bumblebee and molly's but are green spotted puffers just the same as F8 in their behaviour. I have seen and read a lot of people keeping gsp with bbg which are common.
Would I be able to keep monos with them as that would be really nice, I'm sure they'd be fine as they are fast moving fish and with no long fins.
What should the salinity be for these fish:
- Bumblebee goby
- Green spotted puffer
- Knight goby
- Sailfin molly (I know that these can handle full marine to tropical so can the tank have any salinity or it depends on how old they get the more salt they can handle?)
- Mono fish
Can all of these be kept together and what salinity are they all best at together?

The unidentified goby you have myenigmaself does it look a bit like a knight goby because it could be a purple spotted goby or another type that looks like a purple spotted but more green but showed better colours when small (blue with black spots going down his side in a line).

Thanks

 

[erk628]

Nice looking setup you have there!