Fresht to brakish to salt.

[RadleyMiller]

it takes less than 15 min to make a mono from fresh to salt

I've always dripped mine in when I bring them home from the fish store so they aren't too shocked. My killies were never dripped though. It is true that monos could handle the change that quickly but the biological bacteria can't handle it.

So should i put 50% SW in? Would that work? No special equpiment? Would a Green spoted or a figure eight puffer work with him? what about a snowflake moray? I can move the cray out. =)

1.012 is a good salinity to start with, but 50 gallons is too small for a moral and a mono. I would keep the mono by himself in the 50 and set up a much larger community.

All of the fish you mentioned can take full salt except for the figure 8s. I wouldn't go any higher than 1.012 for it. They can be nasty buggers though, and so can green spots, and monos are nice. I wouldn't risk it.

 

[Jeox]

I've always dripped mine in when I bring them home from the fish store so they aren't too shocked. My killies were never dripped though. It is true that monos could handle the change that quickly but the biological bacteria can't handle it.



1.012 is a good salinity to start with, but 50 gallons is too small for a moral and a mono. I would keep the mono by himself in the 50 and set up a much larger community.

All of the fish you mentioned can take full salt except for the figure 8s. I wouldn't go any higher than 1.012 for it. They can be nasty buggers though, and so can green spots, and monos are nice. I wouldn't risk it.

Well.....Before I happened to read this I got a 1'' green spot. He was in wih baby monos though. None of the monos had injurys so.....We'll see how this ends up....It might be an excuse to set up a new tank. So can greenspots take full SW?

 

[RadleyMiller]

Yea, the LFS has a tank full of them, and a salt tank full of foot long Blackfin Sharks aka Silver tipped sharks aka Columbian sharks.