Question about Toadfish - Cichlas or anyone who owns them

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I have had my Toadfish since January in my freshwater 29gallon. He has been eating fine and now all the sudden he isn't eating. He gets really excited when I put a Silverside in like he used to but coughs them up after trying to eat them even really small ones. I haven't changed any eating routines, I usually give him 1 every other day.

Could the Silversides be freezer burned or bad? Would getting some GarlicGaurd increase his appetite?
 
No Freshwater. I have read that they are very hardy fish and can be put into any type of water as long as they are acclimated correctly.
The LFS that I bought him from had had him in Freshwater for a long time before they sold him to me.

I've tried feeding him krill but he has never really liked that fromt he start.
 
Update: (Sorry for the double post, can't find an edit button)
He still won't eat the Silversides I think they might be bad. He ate one of my Convict Cichlids last night so I feel much better now that I know he still has an appetite.
I can't believe he fit one of those in his stomach though because they are like 4 times the size as a Silverside.
 
Toad fish/'freshwater' lion fish/ are brackish. Their 'hardy' because they can deal with changes of salinity and don't require 'exact' salt contents. They're found in brackish estuaries and coastal streams where daily ocean tides can change salinity. But there is no doubt they require brackish water for health.

Do a little more research on google etc. but they're definitely long term brackish.

I would change the salinity 1.002 per week until you get to 1.010-1.015 (the slow process is for the bacteria, not the fish.)

brackish tanks are easy to maintain, and require no special filter.

If you have plants, yank them out.
some plants like java fern/moss/apogentos and hygros will survive low end brackish.

good luck!
 
It might be time to gradually start raising the salinity. I've had brackish fish that when kept in freshwater seem to do fine, but slowly decline in a similar way
 
Will raising the salinity harm my other fish like Convict Cichlids and my Pleco?
I have had Freshwater tanks all my life but have never had a Brackish or Saltwater tank.

I am going to get a 55gallon when I move but that probably won't be until like November.
I actually have a spare 10gallon that I could make into a Brackish tank though.
Is a 10gallon too small for Toadfish.

Also I have done research on Toadfish but there isn't much info out there on them.
 
toadfish NEED brackish water.
just because the lfs had them in fresh doesnt mean you should.
get rid of the pleco and convict and just keep the toadfis. :D
 
channarox;1915259; said:
toadfish NEED brackish water.
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Says who?? Have you kept one? How long did you keep it in fresh? How big was it? What were you feeding it? Which toadfish did you have? How many did you have? What else did you keep it with? What temperature? What were the water params, salinity, ph, nitrates etc? How big was the tank? What decor?

Glad to hear yours has eaten serial.
 
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