"freshwater lionfish" talk about misinformation

[Tsubakai]

Might struggle to get plants to survive at that SG but otherwise sounds good. Its pretty much how I planned to keep mine (but with a canister filter) until my wife decided she wanted a large mudskipper instead.

 

[Olunds]

i just picked up a Allenbatrachus grunniens from my lfs. They had no onfo on it not even the scientific name only freshwater lionfish. After researching it at home on how to properly care for it im confused, has anyone learned anything new since this thread.

 

[Goanna]

Well I had one come in my store recently, (allen)batrachus grunniens and I had it at a SG of 1.010 and it was doing real good, and I just found out today someone sold it, and the person who bought it is either putting it in What he thinks is brackish (because he had african cichlids previously) or hes putting it in a brand new, uncycled brackish tank (if he knew how to setup brackish for that matter, he might not have even used marine salt). I know this because the person who bought it was begging me to sell it to him the other day when it came in, and I refused. I told him it needs brackish and it wont live in your African cichlid tank. So he either just ignored me and threw it in anyway, or he attempted to make his tank "brackish" overnight.

I am pretty pissed. I really didn't want that fish to sell when I wasn't in the store. I am the only one who really knows about brackish, and I have been the one maintaining our brackish tanks, but it sold over the weekend while I wasn't there.

He also took the Jade Goby and the Scat we had in with him, so all three fish are probably not going to end up too well.

 

[tezr]

I keep the 2 that I have in full marine and they are as active as Toadfish get.... I have one that I believe is a Grunting Toadfish and the other was labeled as an Orange Toadfish. I have had both of them for almost 1 year in full marine water with no issues so far.

A lot of the Toadfish look very similar to each other...

http://www.fishbase.org/identification/specieslist.cfm?famcode=189&areacode=

 

[FLESHY]

When I worked as a fish specialist in a local petsore, we got fish in that looked similar to both of those... And they were sold to us as "rockfish" we kept them in 100% freshwater, and no one bought any of them. They stayed there. Sitting in the sand... for the whole summer until one day they were gone. Dont know what happened to them.

 

[srikamaraja]

Thalassophryne Amazonica is a true FW fish, in all the info I've been able to find.

Definitely recently developed from marine relatives, in all due fairness.