okay i know the dragon goby is a "friendly" fish, so are all my others. i currently have a clown loach(same as random), some random fish(gf got this one from her friend and they had no clue what it is), also have two catfish "sharks" can't member what they are called now, also have some other catfish that we are trying to figure out as well we seen something like it at the local pet smart it started with a P(sorry for having a short term memory lapes)(but it's silverish with long whiskers and almost leopard like whiskers supposedly have some barbs or something on it idfk my gf got it from a friend as well).but i am wanting to know how well my other fish would react if i added a little bit of salt to the tank to help out the dragon goby. also right now my tank is a 55 gallon tank(long) or is my tank right now over stocked? also for filter i can't remember what exactly it is i know it's a marine land with the size C filters and it has a bio wheel. which doesnt say much either though. i know its one of the smaller ones now i just need to find the box i got it in from PO. right now all fish are mildly getting along other then the clown and the random fish. the clown is very skidish and hides under the one side of the air stone and the random fish hides in the bigger plant we have normally.....sorry if nothing makes sense out of my post.
dragon goby + current fish =?
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also the reason the clown loaches hides and sulks is because they are a schooling fish and really need minimum groups of 3, preferably 5-8
ah didn't know that about the clown fish. i didn't even know the girlfriend was getting all these fish, until one day i went to her house to see a **** ton of fish in there. also i know they prefer brackerish type of water, but SUPPOSEDLY live in fresh as well. like i was asking though if i upped the salt water content from what is now would the other fish be fine?(my understanding of the brackerish setup is it's suppose to be the in between of salt and FW setup).
Loaches are scaleless fish and it would severely stress and possibly kill the loach. The other fish wouldn't appreciate it either. You also risk creating salt resistant strains of ich and other fungal/bacterial bugs. You should really take the goby back, or take the other fish back and convert it to a brackish tank with the goby. They are really neat guys, and I just love them, but do require brackish for a long term environment. Also, brackish salt requires more minerals than plain aquarium salt or rock salt (which is what I use to treat my freshwater fish, should they need it.)
Also, you need to test your water with liquid dropper tests every day. With a large fishload added all at once, normally there is an ammonia spike while the biological filter catches up, and that will also stress fish to the point of disease or death. Don't use test strips they are infamously inaccurate and a waste of money. The liquid dropper tests are more expensive, but you get many more uses out of them, and a true and accurate reading. You also likely have very high nitrates if the tank has been set up a long time, and you will need to test for these as well. The nitrate test is very different as far as administering it, so read the directions for that particular test very thoroughly. It has two dropper bottles, the order you administer them, as well as shaking the bottles, and the test tube are very important for an accurate reading, otherwise you will get a false positive.
Also, you need to test your water with liquid dropper tests every day. With a large fishload added all at once, normally there is an ammonia spike while the biological filter catches up, and that will also stress fish to the point of disease or death. Don't use test strips they are infamously inaccurate and a waste of money. The liquid dropper tests are more expensive, but you get many more uses out of them, and a true and accurate reading. You also likely have very high nitrates if the tank has been set up a long time, and you will need to test for these as well. The nitrate test is very different as far as administering it, so read the directions for that particular test very thoroughly. It has two dropper bottles, the order you administer them, as well as shaking the bottles, and the test tube are very important for an accurate reading, otherwise you will get a false positive.
havn't bought the goby yet was just asking since my friend just got one and thought it looked sweet. but i wasn't talking about adding enough salt to make it a backerish setup just a little, (like EXample if a brackerish setup takes 2 tsp's of salt then i'd add like 1/2 tsp or something like that, hope that makes sence)but by the sounds of it sounds like a no go.
I has two Dragon Goby's both from Walmart.
One died in about three days and the other lived 4 months before being eaten by my bicher at night while they were both out seeking food.
Cannot say it was a cool fish as it hid 99% of the time and really was only out at night.
The remainder of the time it was in a near comatose state under a rock....
One died in about three days and the other lived 4 months before being eaten by my bicher at night while they were both out seeking food.
Cannot say it was a cool fish as it hid 99% of the time and really was only out at night.
The remainder of the time it was in a near comatose state under a rock....
never saw mine till i gave it to my roommate and it hung out with his loach all the timeNCStateFisher;4706852; said:
those catfish are probably like pictus or pangasius..and the pangasius gets well..rather large while the pictus would get like 10 inches but anyways the dragon goby are cool but there brackish and the clown loaches would die from stress and so on..