Refugium for Brackish Moray Tank Needed?

Frank Castle

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Well, they are in fresh water for now, as juveniles or yearlings or whatever but I eventually want to graduate them to Brackish since I read that's best for them.....Do I need a refugium or will my tank be just fine without it or what? I never did SW or Brackish, I know very little about them if any aside from species ID and fishing for them lol......so please be gentle with me haha

I also saw the thread about tankmates for Gymnothorax tiles, and I was thinking Tinfoil Catfish/Silver-tipped "Shark".....will the disturb and stress out the morays or will the 2 nocturnal critters enjoy each others' company or what?....or will they try to swallow the catfish and die from spine-impalement?
:( I always liked the Tinfoils, I just never wanted to go through the trouble of doing a Brackish tank for A catfish, but now since I have a good reason.................... :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tete_sea_catfish <======== this is what I meant so as not to get it confused with the other 25 fish called by the same 7,000 common names LOL
 
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No refugium is needed. If you will like the benefits of nutrient reduction through growing algae put some in your display tank. If I was you I would go full salt instead of brackish. You will enjoy it.
 
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Frank Castle

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No refugium is needed. If you will like the benefits of nutrient reduction through growing algae put some in your display tank. If I was you I would go full salt instead of brackish. You will enjoy it.
Not really doing it as a result of "wanting saltwater", I'm doing it as a result of buying Gold-spotted Morays and it all says they prefer Brackish water, u dig me? Some day maybe, but for now I don't really want anything in SW with the size tanks I'm working with.....If I really get into SW, I want to go all-or-nothing and have a stupid-crazy-ridiculous tank with Blacktips or Lionfish or something loony.
 

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Gs morays don't seem as bothered by tank mates as much as other so called fw morays so I would get only 1 or 2 cats
 
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