paroon shark, id shark, pictus cat in brackish??

[04mach1]

i was thinking of getting a couple columbian sharks, a couple pictus, to add to my 2 6 inch paroons and 3 inch id shark and dropping the 7 sharks into the 200-300 gal tank and

i have been reading that the columbian sharks like brackish water and need a little bit of salt in the water to live or they will get a skin diesease and die...
so can the id shark, pictus and the two paroon i have live in brackish water??
or should i try to keep the columbians in just fresh water and see what happens?

 

[RadleyMiller]

I would forget about the paroons and IDs altogether and create a brackish 300 gallon tank with scats, monos, archers, dats, and the columbians. It isn't fair to put them in fresh, they won't do well at all.

 

[ChileRelleno]

Paroon, ID and Pictus are not BW, they would slowly die in a BW setup.
Pictus would be feeders for Paroon, ID and Columbians once they out grow'em.
I agree with RadleyMiller, Columbians with other actual BW species.

To be more precise Columbians need increasing salinity with age, juvies can do Ok in alkaline FW, but need to move to BW as young adults and ideally all the way to full SW salinity as older adults.

 

[FishSkins]

I would forget about the paroons and IDs altogether and create a brackish 300 gallon tank with scats, monos, archers, dats, and the columbians. It isn't fair to put them in fresh, they won't do well at all.

 

[Tongue33]

I would forget about the paroons and IDs altogether and create a brackish 300 gallon tank with scats, monos, archers, dats, and the columbians. It isn't fair to put them in fresh, they won't do well at all.

This is an excellent and beautiful sounding set up that is suggested in quote above Plus your 200-300 could house these fish longer than 13 years As the largest ID sharks i read about were 27" at 13 years

Paroon, ID and Pictus are not BW, they would slowly die in a BW setup.
Pictus would be feeders for Paroon, ID and Columbians once they out grow'em.
I agree with RadleyMiller, Columbians with other actual BW species.

To be more precise Columbians need increasing salinity with age, juvies can do Ok in alkaline FW, but need to move to BW as young adults and ideally all the way to full SW salinity as older adults.

I do however disagree with the Pictus being food for the Paroons or id's for at least 5-7 years and by then you will probably have lost one or the other due to some thing or another

 

[ChileRelleno]

This is an excellent and beautiful sounding set up that is suggested in quote above Plus your 200-300 could house these fish longer than 13 years As the largest ID sharks i read about were 27" at 13 years

The ID's were excluded in that suggestion as they are not BW.

I do however disagree with the Pictus being food for the Paroons or id's for at least 5-7 years and by then you will probably have lost one or the other due to some thing or another

Regardles of timeframe my remark is valid.
IMO it is very likely that a Paroon or ID would be out grow the Pictus before that time. But we know what they say about opinions...