Hi everyone, I really would appreciate any help from the people on this forum. Im new here, this is my first post so please excuse me if I sound like I have no idea of what I am doing.
I made the "mistake" of buying a columbian shark but I have learned a lot about them in the past few months. I've had my fish for about a year in freshwater in a 50 gallon tank with two red tail tinfoil barbs and a common plecostomus but now I've learned that my shark needs brackish water and can adapt to saltwater conditions which is what we decided to do. I found homes for the barbs and pleco since I know they can not be acclimated to saltwater.
My goal is to change the water conditions to brackish first and introduce two more sharks and very gradually make a transition to full saltwater conditions (possibly an reef system?) I will go from gravel to sand (argonite?) and add a couple of marine fish to the aquarium.
Any tips on how to achieve this? My plan is to do all of this within a year from now.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks so much
I made the "mistake" of buying a columbian shark but I have learned a lot about them in the past few months. I've had my fish for about a year in freshwater in a 50 gallon tank with two red tail tinfoil barbs and a common plecostomus but now I've learned that my shark needs brackish water and can adapt to saltwater conditions which is what we decided to do. I found homes for the barbs and pleco since I know they can not be acclimated to saltwater.
My goal is to change the water conditions to brackish first and introduce two more sharks and very gradually make a transition to full saltwater conditions (possibly an reef system?) I will go from gravel to sand (argonite?) and add a couple of marine fish to the aquarium.
Any tips on how to achieve this? My plan is to do all of this within a year from now.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks so much