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September 20th, 2012, 02:17 PM | #1 |
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Snowflake Moray Eel
If I keep a brackish tank SG aprox 1.012, will this eel live in it?
It seems most local fish stores her on long island keep their fis only tanks around 1.010-1.016 I thought this was not even considered MArine till 1.020 but all their salt water fish live fine in there. Any thoughts? Also can I run a saltwater tank and have a gravel bottom? Using two eihem canister filters, one their wet dry, one the professional? |
September 20th, 2012, 05:47 PM | #2 |
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salinity
The reasons they keep it so low is, the first is it is cheeper when you are talking the large quanity of water, the second being less chance of ick.
The low salinity speeds up the ick life cycle( which is usually 2 weeks) and there is less chance of getting ick at lowwer salinity. I keep my fish only tanks at about 1.017-1.019 It is still saltwater. AS far as the moray it would probably do fine as low as 1.012 I have had them before in 1.017 and they did great. I never went lower then that. Always aclimate very slowly when chaging salinity |
September 20th, 2012, 06:29 PM | #3 |
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Thank you,
My hydrometer reads 16 or like 1.013 In your opinion as I am new to the salt world Should I stay at that or bring it up a little more? |
September 21st, 2012, 07:14 AM | #4 |
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i would bring it up to 1.017
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September 21st, 2012, 08:31 AM | #5 |
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Since you are new to salt water, I would suggest buying an hydrometer. This is the one I use
http://veegee.thomasnet.com/item/sal...meter/43036-2? It's about $100, they have cheaper brands that work just as well. |
September 21st, 2012, 08:34 AM | #6 |
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I would buy an Handheld Refractometer to check my salinity. I use this one.
http://veegee.thomasnet.com/item/sal...meter/43036-2? |
September 21st, 2012, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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I actually use the deep 6
it is about $10.00 and pretty acturate. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produc...fm?pcatid=4945 |
September 27th, 2012, 04:56 PM | #8 |
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I highly recommend a Pinpoint unit, everything else is a guess.
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September 27th, 2012, 05:09 PM | #9 |
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i do not have a pin point, and have sucessfully keeping saltwater sice 1976
I used glass hydrometers, plastic hydrometers, and refractors. I check them regularly and do not have any problems |
September 28th, 2012, 10:56 AM | #10 |
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I use TAP water since a decade ago without any ill effects, would you recommend it to everyone Steve?
No, but thats not the point here. My only question is why do you use all these instruments? Do you not trust just one of them to do its job?
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not all aquarist can go for the bucks, a pinpoint runs about $100.
not $6.00 like a plastic hydometer I am not nocking the pin point or other digatals And as far as tap water on a fish only tank (not reef) most hobbyist still use tap, and the fish live. |
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