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Hello. Untill I didn't found this forum, I haven't got any clue how patetick in some things my Country is. We don't have any aquaristick magazine, just a few pet stores, just a few fish speaces. Allmost none of brackfish

I'm considering to import for myself some goby or puffer. Please tell me how they are for community tank, can they breed in aquarium, what species should I take, will they eat or be eaten by some other speaces, are they sresfull...

And, are the bumble bee goby those beutifull fishes, colored like a bee? Tell me something abaut them, please. We never ever had any of thise fish,

Is the plural of a "fish" "fishes"?

Thanks again! It is difficult for me to search the web for speciffic information on your language, so I must ask you.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

here's a link to a good article on keeping and breeding bumblee gobies. and here is a yahoo-search for pictures.

oh, and the plural of "fish" is just "fish" (English is such an illogical language )

figure eight puffers (Tetraodon biocellatus) are lovely brackish puffers and should be kept in at least 20 US gallons per puffer. green spotted puffers (Tetraodon nigroviridis) are also brackish with similar requirements but eventually should be kept in a fully marine aquarium. neither should really be kept with anything other than their own species. all pufferfish are prone to nip fins.

if you do get a puffer, be prepared to feed it snails, shrimps and other invertabrates with hard exteriors. breaking the shells of these feeders is what keeps a puffer's teeth worn down.

if you could edit your profile to tell us what county you are from (see how i'm from Alabama, USA) that would be very helpful for us when we try to help you. a lot of medications and other things are country-specific so it always helps to speed things up if you tell us a little about where you're from.

 

[Pufferpunk]

You can start here for info on different puffer species: Puffer List

Here's good info on starting a Brackish Aquarium

 

[jflowers]

oh, and the plural of "fish" is just "fish" (English is such an illogical language  )

Don't mean to be pedantic, but (hehe) the plural when concerning a number of fish of the same species is fish, when it refers to a number of fish not of the same species, its fishes.

Note on usage: "fish" vs. "fishes"
"Fishes" is the proper English plural form of "fish" that biologists use when speaking about two or more fish species, as in "There are over 25,000 fishes in the world" (meaning that there are over 25,000 fish species in the world). When speaking of two or more individual fish organisms, then the word "fish" is used, as in "There are several million fish in the species Gadus morhua" (meaning that G. morhua comprises several million individuals). To see both in action, consider the statement "There are twelve fish in this aquarium, representing five fishes" (meaning that the aquarium contains twelve individuals, some of the same species and some of different species, for a total of five species).

Strange but true.

Jon

 

[SirMinion]

Are the bumble bee goby those beautiful fishes, colored like a bee? Tell me something about them, please. We never ever had any of these fish

Yes they are just like a bee, and you are correct, they are little beautiful fish.

Here is a picture of one of ours.

They like mildly brackish water and eat microfauna like bloodworm, insect larvae, daphnia and brineshrimp.

There is also a freshwater variant, but these are often hard to find.

 

[xanthianacid]

There is also a freshwater variant, but these are often hard to find.

Funny, the fresh water kind is all we can find here! We have two in our son's fish tank... although the lfs guy (who I respect he's great) says that even they need a little salt in the water, in fact all fishes do!

Is that true? I thought it was totally a no no for scaleless fish, and we have them in almost every fish tank.

 

[ingo_1978]

Salt is beneficial to all fish, especially a tablespoon or two of marine salt in their tank as it contains minerals which will make them healthier and the salt wards off parasites and bacteria. However freshwater fish will not tolerate too much salt as their liver and kidneys would not be able to cope with the pressure of high salt levels. Whereas marine and brackish fish have adapted to cope with these high salt levels.


I don't think scales have anything to do with salt tolerance, as there are lots of scaleless marine fish... puffers are one of them.

 

[CFC]

NO, not all fish require salt in their water and for some it will seriously harm their health.

Most tropical fish have evolved in areas where the salt has no measurable salt content in the water and have so adapted to live in this enviroment, adding salt to their water can cause hard sodium deposits to form on their kidneys which will eventually kill the fish having severly shorterned its lifespan. Routinely adding salt is for brackish and marine fish only and should only be used for short periods to aid in the recovery from some diseases for freshwater fish.

 

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Are the  bumble bee goby those beautiful fishes, colored like a bee? Tell me something about them, please. We never ever had any of these fish

Yes they are just like a bee, and you are correct, they are little beautiful fish.

Here is a picture of one of ours.

They like mildly brackish water and eat microfauna like bloodworm, insect larvae, daphnia and brineshrimp.

There is also a freshwater variant, but these are often hard to find.

how exactly do you know which is a freshwater variation? my local petco always has bumblebee gobies in their freshwater tanks - they are sold as freshwater but i never trusted them...

a lfs near me sells the same gobies as brackish