Can Senegal Bichirs live in Brackish water?

[BMG94]

Sorry if that's kind of a dumb question, but I've tried looking this question up online and I cannot find anything not even a website saying what type of water they live in mainly.

 

[EntoStentor]

no. Ropefish can though.

 

[twentyleagues]

Sorry if that's kind of a dumb question, but I've tried looking this question up online and I cannot find anything not even a website saying what type of water they live in mainly.

They are from fresh water. Neutral ph is good slightly hard. Some polys come from more acidic Blackwater areas and others from super hard alkaline waters lots of different areas but all fresh water. Ropes like said above can and do venture into the brackish areas they can tolerate lower brackish levels.

 

[Polyaddict86]

Most senegal bichirs are born and raise in freshwater since most are CB.

 

[Alexkoj]

well... Senegalus’ do come from lake Turkana which is a salt lake. So I think they do alright in brackish water. In fact some say they display better contrast and better appetites in the same

 

[Vancouver_98683]

Bichir in Brackish

Can bichirs tolerate brackish water conditions?

www.monsterfishkeepers.com

 

[EntoStentor]

well... Senegalus’ do come from lake Turkana which is a salt lake. So I think they do alright in brackish water. In fact some say they display better contrast and better appetites in the same

Turkana has different salts, not sodium chloride as in table salt. See the above post.

 

[jaws7777]

I would have assumed with all the different catch locations that some of them would have been brackish. But it makes sense that it wouldnt work since they dont do well with AQ salt.

 

[Rocksor]

Turkana has different salts, not sodium chloride as in table salt. See the above post.

Are you sure that it is calcium chloride in Lake Turkana? According to this there is very little calcium

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Mollusks, such as sea snails, do not thrive in Lake Turkana because they need calcium to build their calcium carbonate shells, and calcium is not prevalent in the African lake.

"Lake Turkana is so low in calcium that today basically mollusks—snails and those kind of things—have a very difficult time making a living," Cerling says. "So they are basically all gone. It does not have some of the normal fauna of snails and clams and that sort of thing. The fresher lakes do, but Lake Turkana doesn't."

When you look up Lake Turkana, there are many scientific articles about it being saline and alkaline, averaging 2.5ppt in salinity. This would definitely put the water in the lake under brackish conditions in terms of sodium chloride content.

A saline solution is sodium chloride and water is it not?

 

[EntoStentor]

The people on the 2006 thread kept saying it's a different salt...I'd be interested in getting this settled but my SAT is tomorrow so can't do much research right now.