Guppies brackish....

[puffergirl]

I was in one of my LFS the other day and saw that they had a brackish tank with gobies, scats and fig. 8 puffs and guppies in it. Are guppies able to live in brackish conditions?

 

[lyquidphyre]

....... I don't know why they were with puffers???

I don't think they are BW- I think they like a little bit of salt.. but not BW

but i could be wrong

 

[lmw80]

Yes, guppies can go from low to low-mid brackish. Daniel and I have a brackish guppy tank with a knight goby (for population control if ya know what I mean ).

The guppies love it and the knight goby...well...his tummy will tell you how much he loves it, lol.

 

[amphibianboy528]

well,guppies can live in a saltinity of 1.002 and if you want a planted tank the plants are green cabomba and twisted vallis.

 

[cdawson]

Guppies, mollies and swords can live in a variety of specific gravities. I've even seen guppies in a reef tank (albeit, they probably never lived long). Mollies, and guppies venture out to full strength SW in the wild quite often.

 

[Menagerie]

I thought guppies did not tolerate a brackish tank as well as the Mollies. Saltinity of 1.002 is not brackish. We keep our brackish tank at a specific gravity of 1.015. From the research that I did, swords and platies would not go well in out tank, but I did not research guppies.

 

[Toirtis]

OK, so you are in Canmore, which doesn't have a Local FS, so you must have been here....Riverfront Aquariums...yes? If so, those were likely feeders for the puffers and mudskippers.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Any SG over 1.000 (FW) & below 1.020 (SW) is considered BW.

 

[puffergirl]

Actually I saw this at a Petland. Thanks for the info everyone!

 

[cdawson]

just for the record, swords and platies can tolerate low levels of brackish but nothing higher than 1.005, guppies and mollies and much more tolerant.