Keeping Scats in freshwater

[duanes]

My understanding is, scats spend early life in fresh, and mangrove swamp brackish estuaries, and as adults tend to spend much of their time in straight salt ocean, and/or moving in and out of brackish estuaries to breed and feed.
I have considered keeping them, and if so, would dedicate a highly brackish tank, to share with archers, monos, Etroplus suratensus and other halophylic species.
There are other cichlid species that would be water chemistry appropriate such as xCichlasom uropthalmus, Alcolapia alcalicus, and some of the Mexican/Central American mollies and gambusia, but to me, looks a bit goofy, being geographically incorrect.
Many people have no problem mixing hemispheres, but that's just one of my idiosyncrasies (in fact I don't even like the idea and look of Central Americans, with South Americans, on many levels including the aggression scale).

 

[Quo Vadis]

I think what you are describing, duanes, is an"anadromous" fish (e.g. Silver tip shark/catfish), but according to Fishbase is not what Scats are. It says Scats are "amphidromous," which would mean (correct me if I'm wrong) that they spend most their adult life in fresh/brackish water, rather than brackish/saltwater. The link I found is explaining the difference is: http://thefisheriesblog.com/2013/05...-amphidromous-oceanodromous-or-potamodromous/

Now what this means practically in terms of their care I am not sure of, which is why I made this thread!

 

[chris1990]

I think what you are describing, duanes, is an"anadromous" fish (e.g. Silver tip shark/catfish), but according to Fishbase is not what Scats are. It says Scats are "amphidromous," which would mean (correct me if I'm wrong) that they spend most their adult life in fresh/brackish water, rather than brackish/saltwater. The link I found is explaining the difference is: http://thefisheriesblog.com/2013/05...-amphidromous-oceanodromous-or-potamodromous/

Now what this means practically in terms of their care I am not sure of, which is why I made this thread!

according to wikitionary :
[h=3]Adjective[/h] amphidromous (not comparable)

1. (of a migratory fish) that travels between fresh and salt water, but not to breed

 

[Allan01230]

My local fish shop has 4 in complete marine for the last 6 years. They are huge 10" plus and are in perfect condition.

 

[brackishdude]

I have kept all of the species except silver for many years at low end BW, about 1.005-6. At that salinity, there are many FW and other low-end BW tankmates to choose from.