I'm thinking of starting a brackish aquarium for archer fishes. what kind of cool* brackish fishes will go with them?
*other than scats and monos
*other than scats and monos
Archer Fish aquarium
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Large mudskippers, smaller flounders, rice paddy eels, some types of tilapia like the red breast will all work.
When I had my 125 brackish setup, I have archer, mono, scat, columbian shark. Ananbleps wil be harassed, orange chromides might be eaten. F.W. moray eel is a good choise. If you can get your hands on some target fish or mangrove jack would make a nice addition
no such thing as a fresh water moray eel and most dont like brackish when full grown but will tolerate it
I know that archers are mangrove dwellers, so wont it be risky to add fishes that reqire brackish river or estuary conditions?
there is a fw moray.. Gymnothorax polyuradon
try this site http://www.theaquarians.net/ArticlesandWallpapers/morayarticle.htm
try this site http://www.theaquarians.net/ArticlesandWallpapers/morayarticle.htm
olive morays are the only morays that could be called "fresh water" but they still live longer and healthier in set ups with some salt.
Gymnothorax Tile is the most common "fresh water" Moray eel. I have kept this fish for years in a brackish water tank. They get large(mine was 20" befor I sold it). They will not tolerate full salt for very long. A true brackish fish! 