Silver Datnoid

[Young_Fish_Keeper]

Hello Everyone, im usually just in the freshwater side, but this time im posting in the brackish.
A couple weeks ago, i picked up a Silver Datnoid from my LFS and he was fairly cheap so i bought him immediately, i noticed he was in the brackish side of the store but they said he would do fine in freshwater, i put him in a quarantine tank for a few days and noticed he was pretty inactive, so i put in some aquarium salt and he perked right up to life! i was glad to see him happy and active but i couldn't put him in my freshwater tank, so i came here to ask, is there any way to convert him to freshwater? or how much aquarium salt should i put in the tank so he is happy but it won't harm my other fish?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Aweshade9]

First datnoids do not need to be in brackish. Most keep them in freshwater.
Second aquarium salt doesn't make your water brackish. You need a special type of salt to make your water brackish. Aquarium salt is used to help the fish breathe and sorta like a stress coat. That is why your datnoid perked up with the aquarium salt.

 

[Young_Fish_Keeper]

i know, im aware about the gold bar datnoids and what not, but specifically a Silver Datnoid is a brackish water fish, & i heard if you use aquarium salt, it raises the hardness and it becomes somewhat okay for certain fish like the datnoids?

 

[Carpsalmon]

I keep mine in all fresh, I have an at. Give him a few weeks in fresh water he will stabilize. They are a hit n miss fish some are super active others hide all the time.


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[Carpsalmon]

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[jabsthetank]

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Holy! That NGT is nice and fat. And so is that AT. Maybe keep him quarantined with the salinity that he seems happy in and slowly do small water changes to take out the salt and bring him to complete freshwater.


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[Young_Fish_Keeper]

Nice Fish, Thanks for the help guys!

 

[IRONWOOD]

the silvers out of Thailand are brackish, the silvers out of India are fresh

 

[rodger]

I would like to see a source that shows ANY Dat to live in brackish. I don't believe that to be correct.

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[cnel124]

I would like to see a source that shows ANY Dat to live in brackish. I don't believe that to be correct.

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I don't either. All the Datnoids I have ever seen live in freshwater only.