Can I house Knight Gobys in 100% freshwater?

[West1]

What the thread says... For life???????

 

[West1]

What the thread says... For life???????

Anyone??

 

[Lord Barium]

Yeah, you probably could. The only thing is that even though brackish fish can do FW, they won't live quite as happy of a life in your tank. But read what it says below.

http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile98.html <- this website says "Considered a brackish fish according to fishbase they actually prefer freshwater, be sure to ask your supplier the conditions they have been kept in."

 

[Onion01]

maybe if they have been raised in FW, I wouldn't risk converted fish. Still, the risk is higher for death

 

[West1]

maybe if they have been raised in FW, I wouldn't risk converted fish. Still, the risk is higher for death

I seen 4 Knights at a Lfs and they are swiming like crazy and they are in 100% Fresh.
So if I keep them in fresh, I should be good then...right?
I'm going to try and pick them up.

Thanks

 

[Danyal]

same as with any mid-BW fish they can become suseptable to bacterial and fungal infections if kept in FW and not in a very clean enviroment. i had my knight goby for 4yrs before he jumped out and i started in FW for a month or so and then moved him into light BW and then i started just moving around the salinity(although slowly) to whatever i felt like. he was as low as 1.003 and as high as 1.026(yes, full SW) and always thrived.

 

[West1]

same as with any mid-BW fish they can become suseptable to bacterial and fungal infections if kept in FW and not in a very clean enviroment. i had my knight goby for 4yrs before he jumped out and i started in FW for a month or so and then moved him into light BW and then i started just moving around the salinity(although slowly) to whatever i felt like. he was as low as 1.003 and as high as 1.026(yes, full SW) and always thrived.

Awsome. I was thinking of messing with BW. I'm just scared of it
Dont know to much about BW (right now atleast).

How big do they get??? 4" or so??

 

[Danyal]

mine was a little over 3 1/2" long, pretty sweet fish. i've actually still got his dried carcass(creepy i know, i was going to do something with it and never got around to it) so i could measure that if you want a more accurate length. BW is very easy to do, for the most part the fish aren't picky about salinity just as long as you change is slowly and keep it within reason.

 

[ShadowBass]

Don't be scared of BW.

Pick a salinity and try to stay around that. Always top off with RO or distilled, not tapwater or SW. Other than that it's like FW. You put filters on your tank, cycle it and do water changes when necessary.

Do invest in a refractometer though. A hydrometer isn't necessarily accurate, especially when you're running low salinities.

 

[cdubbz]

you should later on change it to BW... i have 1 in FW but they will thrive and do better in BW.. Soon enough im going to give mine away so it can b in a BW setup