My Waspfish

[simonas]

I bought two waspfish about 2-3 months ago,they are great little fish, very active, non aggressive and eat very well as soon as a frozen kind of food goes in such as bloodworm and brine

They live with a fig 8 and a knicght goby as well as 2 mozambique mouthbreeders that are in there temporarily, although female has brood in her mouth!!

there appear tobe two diferent shape waspfish I have as one has pointy nosy/mouth and one more blunted

The water is about 0.006 sg if thats the right way to write it

highly recommended fish

 

[nmonks]

Glad you're enjoying your fish!

Your Mozambique mouthbrooders will do very well in brackish water, and will actually adapt to fully marine conditions given time. They're interesting fish; it's a shame they're a little too big to be easily kept in home aquaria. Adult males are, I think, rather handsome.

Cheers, Neale

 

[simonas]

Glad you're enjoying your fish!

Your Mozambique mouthbrooders will do very well in brackish water, and will actually adapt to fully marine conditions given time. They're interesting fish; it's a shame they're a little too big to be easily kept in home aquaria. Adult males are, I think, rather handsome.

Cheers, Neale

cheers Neale

I never knew the mozzies could go in there but my mate who owns the parents of mine put his in a brackish tank and the male went into a lovely colouration. Mine have bred so they must be happy!! The plan is to mobve them into my bigger tank, at the min they are too small

 

[nmonks]

A lot of the tilapias do very well in brackish water, and that's one reason they're so popular on fish farms: it doesn't matter if the water is fresh or brackish, either will do! When I was at university, one lecturer told us about an Israeli fish farmer who bought an old oil tanker, grounded the thing in an estuary somewhere, and filled up the old oil holds with tilapia!

Anyway, some details on their brackish/salt water tolerances here.

The males we had at college went almost black, with red edges to their fins. Really quite attractive fish, and for their size, not especially aggressive.

Cheers, Neale