Freashwater fish now a saltwater lover.

[octopus]

Hey yall just curious if any of you have turned a freashwater fish to saltwater? A friend of mine took a channel catfish and did a drip method for about a week. Do you think it could be done with some others?????

[vaironman]

There is another small fish, forgot the name. It has been done before but Y?

 

What is the real useful purpose out of this experiment? No real practice use and it's not that colorful to start with fresh water fish.

 

That's why most of us switch to saltwater in the first place, aren't we?

[extreme_tooth_decay]

I think it's useful for feeder fish, other than that I don't see much use.

 

I think channel cats live in some brackish areas, so I'm not surprised if they can take full SW at least for a while. It may kill him after a while though.

[capsfan]

-mollies

-scat

-monos

[extreme_tooth_decay]

-scat

 

 

I keep my scat exclusively in fresh water.

[octopus]

I know mollies and such can go salt but I was just curious. There are a few fish out there that would be cool in saltwater.

[treesprite]

Mollies, scats, and monos are brakish water fish that can live in either fresh or sea salt water. Some small variety puffers such as Figure 8 puffer are brakish that can go in either fresh or salt. I was too afraid to go right from fresh to salt so I did brakish for a while... more boring than fresh because there is so little variety for livestock.

 

There is a website called Fishgeeks that has an aquarium forum whith boards for all types of fish, including a board for brakish - that might be a good place to ask this sort of question. http://www.aquaria.info/modules.php?op=mod...&file=index

Edited December 22, 2008 by treesprite

[zygote2k]

I've seen some African Cichlids in salt water.

[treesprite]

I've seen some African Cichlids in salt water.

Funny, that's part of what I had edited out of my post because on a second thought decided I wasn't sure enough about it to say it.

[Kevin Garrison]

Ah but the one freshwater fish I miss is my irridescent sharks and I have a bad habit of "growing" them, when I took down my freshwater tank the largest of my 3 was 14". I miss him, he was a great fish, I donated them to a school tank. But with that being said I'd have to start up a 125 for fresh water as they out grew the 75 too quickly. My wife won't let me start another big tank right now, if there was a way I could add them to my reef... let's face it, it'd be cool... however the pH of a salt tank would quite easily kill the poor guys as they thrive in 6.5-7.5, though it's not a huge stretch, I've seen high pH really give them issues.

Edited December 22, 2008 by Kevin Garrison

[extreme_tooth_decay]

I've seen some African Cichlids in salt water.

 

I recall when I kept african cichlids it was recommended by many to use a small amount of salt with them, which I did. There was even a special salt mix just for them (something like "African Cichlid Lake Salts"). That fact makes me think they are better candidates than others for trying to keep in s/w (don't know why you would though).

 

tim

Edited December 22, 2008 by extreme_tooth_decay

[Amuze]

Cichlids do take a type of "salt" that is supposed to be like the saltwater lakes they come from, but I've had the same cichlids live in water with salt and without. The Temp is right for them, but PH might be a little too high and cause them to stress. I kept the PH in my cichlid tank at 7.9 so they might adjust to a PH of 8.2 if they are healthy. I wouldn't do it though. If you keep sand in your tank it will affect them and irritate their gills causing infections. They also won't be as colorful with the lighter/white sand common in reef tanks. They also destroy plants in large amounts so not sure how they'd be around corals. I'm certain they'd try to attack the snails and crabs as well. If big enough, some will eat your saltwater fish too. Lol.

 

The saltwater fish might look at the cichlids and say "Hey, didn't we kick you guys out of the ocean millions of years ago? GTFO". =) Thus causing a riot...

Edited December 22, 2008 by audible