Damn I can’t stand unintelligent fish store ppl, pisses me off all they want is money.

Did they stay active and grow well?? And, how many years, so far? I have heard that they may only live one to three years in fresh. And, ten years in strong brackish. Mine are in weak brackish, 3 tablespoons per five gallons.. Probably two years old, just now.. Am wondering if I am going to cause kidney problems. Am interested in your experiences, thanks!

On "BeFishy" channel... She finds the medium to bigger ones in 1.016 or so salinity in nature.

@@bubblerings maybe 3 years tops before I sell them , too big, like 3” inches and fat. My water (Toronto) is already pretty hard mineral like 175ppm 7.5ph with lots of calcium and magnesium, plus the little bit of salt I mentioned. I also use a few pieces of dead coral to add minerals. They were very healthy when I sold them. I feed frozen blood worm, frozen krill, live snails and put live ghost shrimp in the tank. I also added a Java fern plant, and seagrass, which tolerates low brackish, I have kept them full marine too before, that’s another time.

Yes they were active and grew well, when they are sick they don’t eat, turn black and then eventually die.

You can't put them in a saltwater aquarium. They are freshwater fish when they are juveniles, but they need brackish water when they become adults. Brackish water has a very small amount of salt, it's a mixture of fresh and salt water. Do not put that puffer fish into a complete saltwater tank because it will die. Just do some research on how to make the tank brackish, it's very easy and easier than salt water.

Also you don't need to put it into a brackish tank until it's adult, and even then it will do okay and freshwater but it's just better brackish. Don't rush yourself just do it right.

Five years ago I got a GSP that I thought was fresh. Well, he’s still around. I learned the ropes and love him.

Thanks glad you enjoyed 👍😀

Glad you enjoyed! Did my best to explain things and I figured at least people would get a base line on salinity levels when compared to what I was doing. 😀👍

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed!

Right?

They can be quite territorial so that's why one can be enough

You want1.004 lower than actual brackish level. Vary it from saltier to fresher as they can and do handle greater changesthan this twice daily due to tidal action.

What I did is I started making brackish water and once a week when I did a water change I would change water with brackish water. It would mix with the existing water and slowly start to bring them to Brackish water. Takes like 3 water changes before they are fully in brackish water. At this point I have my Green spotted puffers acclimated to full salt.

They live in fresh as well but for a very happy and longer life you should go brackish your puffer will be healthier and happier and live longer use instant ocean and its a half cup for every 5 gallons roughly its that simple got a salinity tester to make life easy and keep water consensus its that simple with puffers its all about water quality not so much about that salty ness brackish water verys from tide in or out so the salt can very a but as long as there is some in tank you will do fine focus more on the water quality for puffers no scales so there more prone to ick and bacteria its a cool fish to have and enjoy if you dont want to go brackish try pea puffers tiny fish can be in full freshwater and they have big attitudes for tiny little fish they dont know there small i have a few and they think there a big fish fun to watch good luck

Would have to do alittle bit of testing to find that exact amount needed. Since 1 cup of Instant ocean is 1.014 I'd probably use half a cup of marine salt and see where that ends up at, and test salinity with a hydrometer or spectrometer. Sorry wish I had a better answer for you.

@@fishtankdave7709 what is all this 1005 stuff mean?? I really don’t get it

@@user-qk1hf8cx4c that's the specific gravity of the water with salt in it. Higher means saltier.

Best of luck with your puffer!! I fully acclimated my puffers to full saltwater and so far so good. Actually have them in a saltwater community tank with corals doing well.

@@fishtankdave7709 will do that soon

We need to watch for brackish plant videos, next... Not expecting many choices, but fingers crossed. :P

Jungle vallesnaria (probably misspelled that). You have to check the ppt that it can handle though. Not sure if it can work with puffers. Also, it grows slower in brackish water vs fresh and the substrate has to be rich for it to survive the brackish conditions. I want a father fish tank that is brackish one day. A lot of research and hands on experience ahead of me.

I'm using very low TDS water from filtered RO water and then mixing with instant ocean. After the water is mixed the TDS is gonna be something insanely high because of salt as it adds to the number. So TDS in general for brackish and saltwater is not a good gauge to be going by. TDS in my saltwater tank is like 2-3k which at that point the number is unhelpful.

Tap water is fine as long as you use dechlorinator

Most marine fish need plenty of air!

Anubias, Java moss, and Java Fern can all work in brackish water but it will take time got the plant to adapt 😀👍

Start with freshwater, if that is what you bought them in.. Then, raise salinity up to 4 points.. each water change, weekly or whenever you change water. (to 1.004, etc) He is stopping at 1.014. I believe that is a decent low end of salinity, where you find these puffers in nature. "BeFishy" actually shows where she caught some.. The salinity can be even stronger than 1.014... They like that. (Seawater can be as strong as 1.026 or a few points less.)