Help with a 10 gallon

[johnnyh]

Hi, I am new to brackish, and I have a 10 gallon brackish tank with 2 dwarf puffers and 1 spotted puffer. Here are my questions.

Do active carbon filter work?

Does the bacteria that is used in undergravel filters and biowheels grow in brackish?

any other advice if greatly appreciated.

Here is a pik of my tank:

 

[sinasster]

yes and yes!!

 

[SoulFish]

ummmm... dwarf puffers aint brackish

 

[johnnyh]

well they came from the pet store in brackish water

 

[SoulFish]

well pet stores are wrong alot, pet stores are worse then fish stores but neither cna be trusted, if they are really dwarf puffers they should not be in there

 

[johnnyh]

Well actulyl it was a "fish" store, specializing in FISH

They are doing well in it, its not really salty, just slightly.

 

[SoulFish]

ok, well you can still never trust a fish store, you said pet store at first, ive seen dwarf puffers in brackish tanks at mine also but it does not make them brackish, it is still best to remove them, btw how much salt is in the tank?

 

[madhippoz]

Nice rock layout by the way

 

[johnnyh]

theres about 1 table spoon to the gallon.

Thanks madhippos, finally someone has complemented something of mine. lol

 

[SoulFish]

id do a 25% water change tommarow and they day after with freshwater to cut back on the salt and keep it like that until you can get a proper tank for the dwarfs, as for the spotted they are born in freshwater to light brackish and yours looks small so it sohuld be ok in lightly salted for a while

 

[johnnyh]

k thanks, my dwarfs are really small but the spooted is much much bigger. heres a pic:

 

[SoulFish]

they look like dwarfs to me, if you had a better picture i could tell you for sure though

 

[beaver8888]

it looks like a firgure8 i think my friends got about 8 drawfs in his tank and i just bought a figure8 today but it looks more like the one i got then a drawf but they do look similer how big is it? cause drawfs only get abour 1.5inchs at the very most

 

[luvmygobies]

If this counts for anything, I don't think that the others are figure8s.... Mine is darker than the ones in the background and he's the same size as my green spotted... The markings are also very definate 8s, were as the ones from the picture look more spotted.

 

[beaver8888]

kinda hard to tell though

 

[crook]

where did you get those rocks

 

[beaver8888]

ya those rocks are fkin nice

 

[beaver8888]

wherd did you get those....

 

[AggieMarine]

That is definatly two C. travancoricus and one T. sabahensis or a T. nigroviridis. Hard to tell. Anyway, look for dead dwarf puffers in the next couple days. They can't survive in brackish water. No kidding. The LFS that sold them in brackish water obviously has no idea how to care for puffers.

 

[beaver8888]

ya my lfs's dont know anything i dont bothor wasting my time asking them anything