Freshwater Toadfish? and tankmates?

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ok i been doing some research and yes i no they need brackish conditions but, would they survive in part brackish, like 3/4 brackish salt dilution, as this is about how my tank is always kept, so would it work? and secondly, would they be ok with larger tank mates, namely dats, aro's, oscars, pbass, climbing perch and polys... all are to big to fit in the toadfish mouth... or would it pose great risk to my fish?
Thanks peps! appreciate your advise!
 
most tank mates are edible for toadfish unless they are much bigger
 
I had a toadfish that i kept in completely saltwater that i found by my house. He grew from 2 inches to over 8 inches in no time. He ate baitfish that i brought back and dumped him in my tank. He was extremely aggressive and ate all of his tankmates that were fish. I think they are poisenous too.

But he eventually got too big for my 55 gallon so i had to let him go back into the bay which was really hard because he was so beautiful with bright blue eyes and those tangley things around his face made him look like a lion.

BTW i found this fish in brackish water along with the 50 others i caught.
 
What species are we talking about? There are true freshwater and all...
Also your other fish won't do very well in brackish...
I wouldn't mix them with other bottom dwelling fish like plecos. Accident waiting to happen. In fact, I can't think of many worse combinations lol.
 
Batrachus trispinosus was what i was talking about... and thats what i was thinking to davo... hmm maybe a new tank required for this one...

 
Yeah. Well apart from the brackish fw thing, with plecos you've got one active night bottom dweller, that will happily suck the slime coat of such an inactive bottom dwelling fish... and of course, pleco may soon become food as it wavers in front of such a large mouth lol.
 
seems like kind of alot of salt id say that for tank mates you only have a couple of choices some kind of big goby mabye a silver dat
 
They are very hardy fish. My LFS had one with puffers, it was about 6-7 inches. There was this one occasion he was telling me about that the Freshwater toadfish put an 8 inch fahaka puffer in his mouth puffed up. and he had to pry it out. Right after like literally 3 seconds after he ate a 4 inch leopard puffer, and it's still alive 2 months later.
 
Bad news for the puffers... What an idiot!!!
 
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