Wanting to learn about setting up a brackish tank.

[Fishing Urban Ontario]

Hi everyone, new to the forum. Sadly it keeps getting more possible that all of my freshwater fish might die due to a goof up. If it turns out that way I don't want to kick my aquarium hobby to the curb, and this has caught my curiosity. So please tell me detailed answers to these things.

1. Could you please tell me all species that can be typically purchased for a brackish tank at the common aqaurium store. (Big Al's, Paulmacs, etc.)

2. Please give me detailed details on how to setup a brackish tank properly. Know its different for every species so please keep it as general as possible.

3. This would definitely be a new challenge for me, so I wouldn't want to goof up this tank like the last one. So please say detailed instructions on how to properly maintain a brackish tank.

4. Please tell me what I should look for when it comes to diseases in brackish tanks. As I want to keep a solid eye on what I should avoid when getting fish at the pet store. And also how to treat these diseases if they should later arrive in the tank.

If this may help, the fish I am currently thinking of getting was pufferfish, crabs, or a mudskipper tank.

Any help you can give me here is greatly appreciated, thank you all so much.

 

[ShanerBock888]

sorry to hear about your current fish, hope they pull through.

I've never kept a brackish tank, so I don't have advice on how to keep one, but the two fish that have always tempted me to start one are the dragon goby and stonefish. Both very cool brackish fish. Good luck!

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Keeping brackish is similar to keeping freshwater,I recommend a hundred gallon tank,u can keep the following species in brackish water:dragon fish,empire gudgeon,blacktip"shark "catfish,bluegill(don't go over 8 ppm),brackish morays,archers,volitan lionfish,target fish,yellowtail damselfish(upper end brackish),percolate clownfish(upper end brackish),bumblebee and knight gobies, .nerite.,etc I don't recommend mudskippers until u get the hang of it.

 

[Hendre]

Well from what i have heard, low end brackish tanks can be run in a similar fashion to freshwater, but you must keep an eye on your specific gravity and make sure you dose correct amounts of salt for waterchanges

other then that i am pretty clueless.

but may i ask what goofed up your freshwater tank?