Opinion Please!
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You could but they would be very prone to disease mono are at the high end of brackish water scale /low level of marine they wouldn't live long in freshwater
If you look up an old thread on here it was discussed before. The conclusion was they need to be kept in full marine by adulthood. Or at least high end brackish.
They have been raised in full fresh, but only end up living less then half the years they should. So it really shortens their life span.
They have been raised in full fresh, but only end up living less then half the years they should. So it really shortens their life span.
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AquaAlex1993
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Most scats can live in freshwater as juveniles and need to be in saltwater as adults. I think the African tiger scat (Scatophagus tetracanthus) is full freshwater?
That's a silly questions. You know this fish only thrives in brackish water. How could you possibly "give the best life you can" if its not in the water conditions that they require to thrive....
Here is a legit guy keeping one in fresh, albeit hard & alkaline.
markstrimaran
has had success keeping marine organisms (algae) in hard & alkaline as well. here is a link to his thread about it.
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/7789453
I would not try it unless I was somehow breeding monos and didn't know what to do with them. Brackish setups aren't any harder than fresh (IME, I did the "seems like enough salt" approach
), and the fish tend to be tougher, as the places they come from are always in flux (temp, alk, PH, DO, flow, etc.). You also can use regular cheap 'sea salt' from the grocery store instead of the fancy 'marine salt mix' you need for a reef.
markstrimaran
has had success keeping marine organisms (algae) in hard & alkaline as well. here is a link to his thread about it.https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/7789453
I would not try it unless I was somehow breeding monos and didn't know what to do with them. Brackish setups aren't any harder than fresh (IME, I did the "seems like enough salt" approach
), and the fish tend to be tougher, as the places they come from are always in flux (temp, alk, PH, DO, flow, etc.). You also can use regular cheap 'sea salt' from the grocery store instead of the fancy 'marine salt mix' you need for a reef.