FreshWater Stonefish/lionfish/toadfish info plzzzzz

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Aras118119;567159; said:
I have one and i used to keep it in freshwater until i was told it liked brackish and once i changed it starting growing alot faster and eating more. I feed mine ghost shrimp and feeders. they can grow to about 12 in. long and i keep mine with archerfish and theyre doing fine
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I think I'll keep mine in fresh in that case. He eats enough as it is, without adding to the bill.
 
Just like the Green Spotted Puffer, most LFS would sell them to you in a freshwater condition and you see them swimming happily in the tank, but once the GSP gets big, they will start to get sick and skip their meal if being put into a freshwater tank. Its the same concept as the Toadfish.
 
The oyster toadfish, the most common toadfish, is found in full salt and thrive in it. They can go to brackish but I don't know about the freshwater. They can get pretty big, and are a nusance fish always clogging fish traps and eating all the bait in them, well atleast for me, and have a nasty bite. They do have 3 posionous spines in their dorsal fins, but the bite is probably worse. They will also eat about anything they can fit in their stomaches, and with me, were not shy about bitting fish bigger than themselves. They can also live in some of the worst waters with mass polution in them

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Khoa Tran-Le;567648; said:
Just like the Green Spotted Puffer, most LFS would sell them to you in a freshwater condition and you see them swimming happily in the tank, but once the GSP gets big, they will start to get sick and skip their meal if being put into a freshwater tank. Its the same concept as the Toadfish.
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With all due respect, it is not a green spotted puffer. Have you kept toadfish in fresh? How long for? What size was it when you got it? What size was it when it started skipping meals? Did it die? Which type of toadfish was it?

Forgive me for the questions, but I don't just accept something because someone has compared it to a comletely different fish. Give me details, and I would consider changing mine to brackish, but at 7 inches, very fat and eating like a trooper I have seen no reasons to believe it is not thriving in its current environment.
 
Khoa Tran-Le;567650; said:
Theres is no such thing as a FW Lionfish, its only a brackish water fish.
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you dont know your toadfish/lionfish/whatevercommonnameyouchoosefish then... there is more that one species you know. i suggest you look up thalassophryne amazonica or daector quadrizonatus
 
davo;568747; said:
you dont know your toadfish/lionfish/whatevercommonnameyouchoosefish then... there is more that one species you know. i suggest you look up thalassophryne amazonica or daector quadrizonatus
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True to this. There are more than 69 species of toadfish world wide. Some of them are salt, while others are pure fresh, it all depends on your species.
 
wow that fish looks awesome can it be housed with african cichlids if i was to raise the salt level? my fish seem to like it kina salty any way but would they be too mean to it???
 
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