I'd go with a school of mono argenteus or mono senbae. You should be able to find them young 1-2". They'll grow but 3 or 4 would be nice in your brackish. I also have Columbian cats and a Datinoid.
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I have 3 in my 75g right now and it is the perfect number, I would love more but our tank size is really pushing it. If you get only 2 then usually one gets dominant and can stress kill the other. Orange chromides I like because they are very active, but its luck of the draw because mine are *******s and push around the monos and archers. I also have a krib who I love but they stay on the bottom.
Your other route could be to stay with small fishes and salt tolerant freshwater ones. If your main focus is keeping happy dragon gobies then you really only need light salinity with a minimum of about 1.003sg. This range will allow you to keep salt tolerant freshwater species. for instance, you could have your violet gobies and mollies with Celebes rainbows (gorgeous fish) and swordtails (pineapple swordtails are very pretty) and guppies (some goregoues varieties), some of the more hardy rainbowfish will work too.
Neale monks Is regarded as one of the top people for knowledge in brackish water aquarium, here is a little helpful guide he made
http://brackishfaq.webspace.virginmedia.com/Projects/brackishfaq.html
thanks everyone for all of the reply's. I thought about a small puffer but im worried about it nipping my dragons fins. i will read the article and consider all the ideas and advice. thanks. and jonny5 you have monos and archers in a 75? how many archers?
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