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- From: oleg@Veritas.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: (FAQ) A brief and general list of brackish water fish and plants
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.042223.18234@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:22:23 GMT
- Reply-To: oleg@veritas.com (Oleg Kiselev)
- Organization: Palo Alto Killifish Loft
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- X-Disclaimer: I speak for myself only unless explicitly indicated otherwise
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- This is a compilation and re-edit of the data I had compiled from several
- books. Use at your own risk.
-
- A general list of brackish water fish:
- Puffers
- Scats (Scatophagus spp.)
- Monos (Monodactilus spp)
- Anableps
- Achirus species (soles, flounders; select the tropical brackish soles)
- Pipefishes
- Sailfin mollies and their relatives like mosquito fishes (Gambusia
- species) and pike livebearer (Belonesox belizanus)
- Etroplus maculatus and E. suratensis (Asian cichlids sold as Orange
- and Green Chromides respectively)
- Malayan halfbeaks (Demorgenys pusillus)
- Indian glassfish (Chanda ranga, get the non-painted ones!!!)
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- killies:
- African: Aplocheilichtys spilauchen (a lampeye)
- Middle Eastern: Aphaniops dispar, Aphanius iberius,
- other Aphanius species
- Eastern USA:
- all over the eastern seaboard: mummichog
- (Fundulus heteroclitus)
- brackish swapms of Florida: American flagfish
- (Jordanella floridae from
- Western US: desert pupfish (Cyprinodon salinus)
- S. American: Rivulus ocelatus (a hermaphroditic species)
-
- a huge number of the nominally freshwater killies will
- do splendidly in water that is quite brackish -- and many
- of the African and South American species look as colourful
- as marine fishes)
-
- Asian Dantinoids (get too big for small tanks),
- Asian and Australian Archers,
- some Australian rainbows (like Melanotenia macculochi),
- gobies: Australian gudgeons (like Mogurnda mogurnda),
- a number of other gobies, like sleeper gobies
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-
- A general list of plants that tolerate brackish water:
- Java moss, Java fern, Elodea densa (Anacharis), Hygrophila polysperma
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- As long as the water is not VERY salty:
- Echinodorus tenellius (pigmy chain swords), Sagittaria subulata,
- S. graminea, S. gigantea, Vallisnaria americana, Water sprite,
- Hornwort.
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