What Fish Can I Have With My Red Scat?

[bassdna]

hey everyone im new to this forum and have being looking for a good forum think i may have found it i have a few ?

1:i have a 600lt brackish tank with 7 good sized red scats i run a ehim professional canister filter and a aqua one canister that i use for chemical filtration (seachem purigin)&(seachem matrix carbon) my tank consists of 250lts of fresh water and 200 lts sea water i also run air bubblers and 2 ehim aqua ball internal filters with air venturies i also have a ocean runner ph 2500 power head pushing water my back ground is a jewel thick mangrove and rock internal back ground what other fish can i have with it....?

2:i have being thinking about multi vitimin and miniral suplimentation and i have found something that i may try some time and would like to know what everyone else thinks in regards to this product its colloidial sea minarals from what i have researched they get sea water and evaporate it to a very consontrated form but from what i know i think they lose alot of the sodium from it il put the link here and tell me what u think perhaps some one may be willing to try it for water hardening and genaral fish health.... http/www.vitaklenz.com/analysis.html

3: cheers for your time and feed back

 

[nmonks]

Scats are completely peaceful towards their tankmates, though very pushy at feeding time. A roughly 50:50 mix of freshwater and seawater is ideal for Scats, and one approach is to use "old" seawater from a marine aquarium. This saves money in terms of needing to buy artificial sea salt.

Anyway, you don't need to add vitamins or minerals to the food or water. Provided the water has a high carbonate hardness, you're fine. Scats are omnivores, and a diet containing lots of greens will provide them with all the vitamins they need. Blanched lettuce, spinach, sushi nori, peas and so on are all greedily taken. Augment with chopped seafood and good quality pellets (e.g., Hikari Gold) and you're fine.

Scats work very well with monos and Colombian shark catfish. Green chromides also mix well, as do archers and large sailfin Mollies. Gobies can work with Scats, but your problem is making sure the gobies get enough to eat. If you can get them, Mystus gulio is an authentic brackish water catfish ideally suited to this aquarium. Plotosus lineatus also thrives in mid strength brackish water tanks, but it's a difficult fish in some ways, being quite territorial as it matures.

Some people keep them with Green Spotted Puffers, but that's not a 100% reliable combination because those puffers are potential fin nippers. I'd be leery of moray eels as well.

Cheers, Neale

 

[bassdna]

thanks neale that was lots of help you seem to know ur stuff i have lots of experiance with planted aquariums but althogh water quality is not a problem for me there was little infomation on tank compatbility for brackish enviroments one again cheers man