Converting salt water fish to fresh.
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Yanker;3066986; said:
No.
There are very few species of fish that can go between fresh and salt water. Of those that can, even fewer are suited for the typical home aquarium (due to size). They move back and forth between the two mediums of water during different parts of their lives, and their biology is designed to do just that. Keeping a true marine fish in freshwater is forcing it into a slow painful death.
probably Salmonids and Temperate BassYanker;3067028; said:
anyway a few fish i know can be in both that can be kept in aquaria:
Atlantic Stingray, Tarpon, Barramundi, Salmon Catfish (the Pangassius, not the Ariidae)
Yanker;3066986; said:
No. And converting any fish into water perameters that aren't "within' reason" is potentially asking for a nuclear explosion in your tank. Personally I think it's unethical to subject fish to such conditions. Even some fish that breed in river systems and grow up in saltwater often live shortened lifespans, and have poor health if forced in one set-up or the other. I've been guilty of doing this in the past myself. And have given up on attempting do convert a fish ever again. actually to check myself Mollies are the only fw/brackish fish i was able to covert to salt and breed and propigate to any type of "healthy" fashion. Though often i'de lose the female after delivering her first litter. The babies born in the sw grew up to breed just fine. They did have smaller then average litters in the sw though. Though i used them for feeding my pipefish at the time so didn't even really think about it
I dont know why you would want to anyway. We have alot of awesome freshwater species right here anyway.
Yanker;3067028; said:
Just some examples: Alligator gar, some species of hybrid stripped bass, sometimes some of the coastal game fish in the US (some species of drum for example), a few of the brackish species can handle one or the other, but usually need to convert as they mature.
Someone please clarify for me which fish you are talking about. I have a sun bream that was caught in a freshwater lake. This fish is also called a sun perch around these parts. We have alligator gar living in most of the lakes and ponds around this area also. I live right on the Mississippi River and the gar and catfish become enormous in that river. Plus we have the oxbow lakes that were once a part of the river that have the huge gars and cats. So is the sun bream that I have one of the fish that you are asking about?
fishman112;3066777; said:hahaha, I have yet to see a fresh water bream, syndicate.
Im guessing it's not a adelaide fish
there always in stock at a lfs near me i think its called pet country
