Does this sound OK?????

Oct 22, 2002
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Does this sound OK for a 46 gallon tank?

- 3 figure eight puffers
- 1 scat
- 1 freshwater moray eel
- 2 or 3 knight gobies
- 6 glass fish
- 2 Freshwater flounder
 

colesea

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Oct 22, 2002
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Errr...without really knowing the size of anything, can't tell you population wise...

But...ah...the moray or the puffers might make a meal of their tankmates. Especially the flounder.

You do realize you have a brackish environment, yes? I hope so, all the fish you mentioned do need sea salts added to their tank to be healthy.

I'd be skeptical by the term "freshwater" moray. No resource I've ever read places any form of moray in the freshwater section, not even Snowflake aka Clouded Morays -Echinda nebulosa- although I've seen them sold as such. Personally, I would keep my morays to a totally marine environment, I think they'd like it better. They also get very big (30in) and in a few years of good feeding, it will and should be the only thing in a 46 gallon tank. They're also good at making an escape, so tape over -all- holes in the hood. I've heard of a moray climbing up the intake tube of the filter once. Not a happy moray. They like lots of caves too.

Adult scat also need to be placed in a full marine system. So when yours grows up, he'll need to be acclimated to full saltwater.

The puffers like it a touch less saltier than the fishes above, although they can probably all be aclimated to some compromising salinity. They're aggressive as all hell when they grow up though, biting the stomachs out of other fish tankmates if they're hungry enough.

Nix the flounder. They're just a meaty feast. That, and again, I'd be skeptical about the word "freshwater." I've had people have them survive in freshwater, tropical, comminity tanks before, how or why I don't know, but the public can't seem to get enough of these little guys. Personally, I can't understand why, but to each their own.
~~Colesea