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It's actually a tall, rather than long: 30x18x15 That also rules out the idea of a river conditions tank: I took my small river tank down not long ago and would have recreated it in this tank but it's too tall for the flow to work properly without a LOT of hassle and money (powerheads galore)...

:) Thanks for the ideas! Hmm...not a fan of rams. Angels are a possibility...but I'd like to keep something I've not kept before, so it keeps the hobby new and interesting for me. I have a 58G moderately planted community, so would like to try something new. I have brackish puffers, but no...

Monos are, like many brackish fish, anadromous. They don't live in freshwater: they migrate there to spawn. Keeping them in freshwater is not appropriate in the long term. If you keep them, provide them with the correct environment which is brackish to saltwater (the older they are the higher...

I'm stripping down my 36G which is currently my cichlid tank (Msobo Magunga). The fish are just not to my liking, which I've found really hard to reconcile. I keep all kinds of fish inc. puffers and the more unusual loaches, and really the cichlids are just not doing anything for me. I get no...

Yup, brackish! :) And they grow far bigger than most tanks can support, because not only do they grow around 10" in height but they need to be kept in a large group.

Hehehe! That's what family is for :D

:) Thanks Rich! I took a couple more of my puffers tonight. They'll hand feed, and if it's krill which is long then I don't mind (no risk of losing a bit of finger in the process :P :D)

:) Thanks! Glad the puffer is entertaining! Not as much as seeing them playing about though: the two of them are very naughty lol

One of my figure eight puffers: Deciding if he can really fit inside the barnacle: A BBG, looking decidedly grumpy (as usual!): One of four corydoras trilineatus (NOT julii!) I keep. This little one is now twice the size! Gnathonemus petersii, and a schistura mahnerti (nervously!)...

There are two things aquarium salt can do in FW (as jdogg says, I won't mention marine salt since the OP was talking FW here): 1. Aids in osmoregulation for stressed fish (i.e. new arrivals). Not recommended for long-term use. 2. Aids in reducing the toxicity of nitrIte and nitrAte. This is...