Brackish Tank is up and running

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Well, the stingrays packed their bags and moved out. So it left me with a large empty tank. So why not move everyone up I thought. The dragons were getting cramped in the 55. So I spent a whole day cleaning and decorating and mixing salt. Once everything was cycled and set, the move began. Everybody is SO happy now. I added a bunch of new fish too. It looked so empty....
I will add more pics soon. I am taking my camera tomorrow to get some dragon goby and spotted leaf fish close ups.

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When I bought it the tag said 125, but my measurements say 110.I have 3 dragon gobies, 2 dragon eels, 2 spotted leaf fish, 7 glass fish, 3 dwarf puffers, 2 dalmation mollies, 4 silver mollies, and a netful of guppies. I would like to add 3 more dwarf puffers and maybe some bumblebee gobies. I can't find either. Everyone is doing great and enjoying the larger area to swim.
 
Dwarf puffers are STRICTLY FW fish. Any amount of salt will kill them. That's how I killed my 1st 3. I do not believe leaf fish are BW either.
 
Out of curiosity, what are the dragon eels?

I think from what I've read Leaf fish can be considered to occur in bw environments, but I will tag where I found that information.
 
I was thinking they are dragon/violet gobies.
 
Pufferpunk;1657713; said:
Dwarf puffers are STRICTLY FW fish. Any amount of salt will kill them. That's how I killed my 1st 3. I do not believe leaf fish are BW either.
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hmm.. thats odd cause I've been keeping several in my high salinity brackish tank for the past 3 months and all are doing fine...
 
Are you sure they are dwarf puffers & not GSPs? What's the SG in there? I put mine in low-end BW (1.005) & they died in 3 days.
 
Dwarf puffers for sure.
The leaf fish are spotted ctenopoma.
The dragon eels (that is what the sign said anyway) are polypterus senegalus/bichir.
I have found out none are supposed to be brackish, but mine are doing super. Salinity is 1.005. They have been in this for over 3 years. Never had a disease or a death.
 
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