Freshwater to brackish

Anoetic

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Hi having kept FW fish for a while i'm looking to convert one of my tanks to a brackish setup. Could i take an already cycled FW tank and slowly increase its salinity to turn it into a brackish tank? If so which is the best salt product to use, what sort of time period should i be looking at converting it over. Also (sorry about all the questions) i was thinking of using mollies to keep the tank cycled what do you think?

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messiner

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just slowly add aquarium salt day by day until you reach the right density.
 

Hilly

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Use Marine salt and raise the SG by no more than .002 a week, that way the bacteria has time to become accustomed and it wont be killed off by a large increase in SG. Keep doing this until you reach your desired brackish level.
 

Justin_James

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The salt you will want to buy is called Instant Ocean made by Marine Land labs. It's the best in my opinion.

Also I should mention that under no sercumstances should you ever just put the salt in the tank, You need to mix it up in a seperate bucket first.
 
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