Remove 50 percent of the water immediately and replace it with fresh unsalted water … Also, the puffers would eat the neons. Neon tetras rarely react to the presence of salt, but other fish in the tank may display signs of stress. And doing a quick Google search, green spotted puffers are very demanding, extremely aggressive fish that will attack and kill anything in their tank, including their own kind. Thanks, Ryan P.S the tank will probably a 125 or 150 (both 6 foot tanks) Guppies actually like brackish water best, which is water with a moderate salinity level, between pure freshwater and seawater.

If they were brackish at the store, the shock of the new water may kill them, or really stress them out. Nevertheless, they will live happily in low salinity freshwater as well. Gasping at the surface, erratic swimming patterns or darting around are indicators that there is a problem. Neon Tetra In Brackisk Tank. They are pretty sensitive fish. Just remember, the salt doesn't evaporate, so only add it during water changes.
HI I heard that fw fish can like in brakish water a about 1.000 and 1.003 is this true and can all of them do this? Aquarium salt should be fine. if not which ones can? Thread starter crownbetta; Start date Feb 28, 2009; C. crownbetta Member. Joined Feb 28, 2009 Messages 8 Reaction score 0. I escpecially want to know this about fw sharks like balas, SAEs and roseline sharks and all other fw fish as welll, cichlids, tetras, barbs, ect.
They need different water parameters and Red clawed crabs will eat fish if they can catch them. Can neon tetras live in brackish water? We need you to answer this question! No They can't. The tetras probably wouldn't do well with a brackish environment. There are also two columbian shark catfish and I know they need a brackish set-up as they mature and also that they will get way too big for the 55 gallon in a few years, but they will be re-homed as I don't see my MTS getting cured anytime soon.

I wouldn't recommend putting them with fish at all unless it's a large tank so that they can … I have had many mollies in freshwater. In fact I would go so far as to say that Red clawed crabs cannot live with Neon tetras. Neon Tetras, or Paracheirodon innesi, like most of my favorite fish, hail from the Amazon river basin.They come from brackish streams, and they’re known for their distinctive red and blue color scheme. Someone with experience in keeping a brackish tank could tell you better, however. The tiger barbs, black skirt tetras, and plec are still in the 55 gallon.

Good luck. Neon Tetras come primarily from two sources.They are either caught wild, accounting for roughly 5% of neon tetras, or they are imported from massive fish farms in south-east Asia. I don't believe Neon Tetras can tolerate salt.