So, a lot of you are commenting about wanting to see more footage of the fish and tank, and less of me. Well, I have listened. If you check back to watch my release next Wednesday, you will see all the footage on this setup (fish, tank, etc), as well as a little change and some bonus footage at the end.
I subbed to see this! Of course, I still wanna hear what you have to say. I hope suggestions like this don't silence you because you've got good information, and these aren't common animals to see as pets with such nice quality footage.
I had a brackish tank back in the 90's where I kept a HUGE Green Spotted Puffer. He was loaded with personality and was my favorite fish I ever had. Dont let the cuteness of the puffer fool you, they are as hostile as they are adorable. They are more aggressive than most cichlids . Its so good to see Puffers getting love shown in the hobby. Thank you for listening to your subscribers.
In my experience most figure 8s are not as aggressive as GSP. I guess the potential is always there though. Puffers are the best this is really making me rethink starting my 40b reef or get back into F8 puffers ;-)
I had a dragon gobie in with my mudskipers and they did very well together. It's a filter feeder so it sifts the sand to find food. I also had gost shrimp that would reproduce in this setup, as well as a few bumble bee gobies. Quite the oddball group.
I'm glad you went with the F8 Puffer so you can help share the requirements of keeping them properly. They are a very rewarding fish to keep and very docile as far as puffers go. I have kept them with guppies and bumblebee gobies with zero agression.
Not to tell you how to do your job, but is there a way to talk while we watch the animals? You don't gotta be Ants Canada and make it all a story or anything, it's just nice to see the animals more. I love these guys. I like the puffer too. Puffers are cute; they have that passive aggressive smiley face to go along with that passive aggressive defense of theirs. Anyway, I'm a fan of more screen time for the critters. Other than that, very informative! Good video!
@@jackcurtis6402 I wouldn't know. I'd kill these poor fellas, the whole lot of the them just because I'm a forgetful dog owner whose dogs remind me almost every other day that I forgot to feed them. right now it's so cold, I gotta stand by the door when I let 'em out just so I don't forget they're outside. (I make up for late meals with homemade salmon snacks.)
Hey zenzo, i like your figure 8 brother. Hes badass for sure, ive always been a fan of the puffer smile! Mudskippers look setteled in to the max now. Too cool, keep it up and thanks for your hard work💪
Awesome that the Puffer is doing good! I’ve been sure to feed the puffers lots of snails, brine shrimp and other goodies to keep them full and happy. Good to see that one go to a good home!
I've always wanted mudskippers. I set up my brackish tank for them, but never did get them. I've had my F8 for about 5 years now though. My Puffer likes freeze dried krill. I've kept BB gobies with my F8 for years without issue. My puffer "Butterbean" is pretty timid though. And the gobies will never get big enough. Not only will an aggresive puffer kill much larger fish, but the gobies never get bigger than about a half an inch or so (and that's big one). The crabs are more likely to get eaten by the puffer. Endlers look great with the F8 puffers too. I love the set up. Can't wait to see how it develops.
I love that you're doing a brackish tank. Before I found your channel, I fell in love with brackish. I ordered mudskippers, figure 8s, knight gobies, fiddler crabs and bumblebee gobies online around New years. The bumblebees and crabs never came and the skippers, puffer, and knights took forever to arrive, so all are still in separate quarantine tanks right now. I'm putting the puffer in with black mollies, and the knight gobies and guppies in with the mudskippers when everyone is out of quarantine. I'm still hoping to find bumblebees and fiddlers to reorder soon. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to seeing how your tank turns out.
I really like the commentary. But I lowkey want an hour long video of just the mudskippers in the tank. So calming to look at them going by their business
I was going to say the same thing. I have two figure 8 puffers in quarantine right now and while researching beforehand everything I read said DON'T feed MTS because they are so hard that they can actually break their beaks. Mine have been chowing down on pond snails and ramshorn. Sam, does your puffer bother the guppies at all?
Honestly man i just leave the take as is it looks great and i think as these fish grow i think it going to be an epic tank, i would look at if possible some floating plants would look nice but honestly i love it as is and may make a copy setup with an 100 giving the skippers half just to see more land action.
First off...the Puffer obviously has to be named Shemp! The 4th Stooge! Secondly.... YES to the Guppy idea. Natural food for all of your Main which would save $$ in the long run. Plus would add color to the tank. Finally...amazing vid! Glad to see the tank coming to a point of completion for you. You should make a Mudskipper Playlist.
You should add Bala Sharks, the medium ones grow to a good size (won't be attacked by the Puffer or the Mud skippers) and they are also mediumly aggressive (not more aggressive than the mudskippers or puffer), so they will do well in an 'aggressive aquarium'.
I have never kept fiddler crabs. However, I would guess the males to be more dangerous, as they have a much larger claw, where the females only have small claws.
You could try fidler crabs since they will probably make their burrows by mudskipper but you did say in past video it's not a full mound of sand. I would give it a try. Walmart sells them.
Maybe add a bit more rockwork or other forms of decor in the main reservoir of the tank. Puffers like to explore an interesting environment and can get bored and be prone to swimming up and down the glass nonstop if they're not sufficiently stimulated. Otherwise it looks great, love the mudskippers, love the figure-8 (the one I had years ago was my favorite fish of all time, tbh). With a bit more decor to break line of sight and hide in the bumblebee gobies would do well, but otherwise the puffer will be plenty happy left to himself and his invertebrate snacks.
A cool fish that would look good and not many people get, are the dragon fish from Walmart. I know Walmart fish suck or could have parasites but if you quarantine them, it'll be fine. They're amazing fish and can live in brackish water. They are also called the Violet Goby
You should put in fiddler crabs like 2 because they fit perfect in your tank they do well in brackish too BUT I don't know if the crabs will attack the puffer or mudskippers
I had very small bumblebee gobies with my fig 8. He did not bother them. So I don’t see many people keeping them but if you want something unique add a “flounder”. The ones in the aquarium trade are I believe a type of sole and at one time I had the scientific name down. Only thing is you will need a little more sand on the bottom so they can burrow. I have 2 in my 40B and they are awesome. Psuedomogils are also an option here. I have a white false cheek goby as well, very cool but he defiantly has his territory. He jus burrowed out a hole under my fake mangroves and the sand and hangs out there most of the time. I’ll send you a message with my Flounder
Yes Figure 8s are great! feed them a variety of food along with snails as a treat a 2-3 times a week. These puffers are very interactive with their environments so they can get bored quickly. Bumblebee gobies will do well with the puffer. These puffers do not hunt fish only invertebrates. The will tolerate speedy fish like Endlers, Guppies, Swordtails, Platys, Mollies, but can get overwhelmed by their flighty movements. They will not eat any fry from them either though the mudskippers might. You can also try adding in ghost shrimps which might be live food for the puffer, but puffers have been known to tolerate them in their tanks. Check out Dan Hiteshew's puffer named Butterbean on his YT channel.
You can get brackish leeches, leeches are just worms that live in water and most species ONLY eat detritus. It would bring both colour and something to clean to the aquarium and it would certainly be unique.
If you had the time to feed and you want something out there then think about a pipe fish. They do need either live food always swimming with them or small feeds of frozen throughout the day just like a seahorse. I'm pretty sure they can be kept brackish. Thanks.
The puffer might try and eat the crab and crabs pinch hard. Puffers can receive eye damage from crabs, so be careful if you add them. You could try adding some oysters or brackish water clams. Acherfish can also have brackish water species along with Anableps Anableps a live bearer that can get 5-6 inches long and are also known as the 4 -eyed fish, as each eyeball has two separate lenses and retinas. One to look above the water and one to look below the water. Mono fish can also be used. There are different types of brackish water gobies that are larger than the bumblebee gobies. The common goby (Pomatoschistus microps) is a species of ray-finned fish native to fresh and brackish waters along the Atlantic and Baltic Sea coasts of Europe and northern Africa, with a range stretching from Norway to Morocco and Mauritania. It is also found in the Canary Islands. Hopefully to big for a mudskipper to eat. It grows to 9 cm or 3.5 inches.
If you obtain more water rotation somehow, Plant suggestion; Fucus vesiculosus . Not the most colourful or green. But it is certainly unique! It will also lower the chances of Algae spread. But, it does require more than a simple bubbler för water rotation. A gyre of some sort might be better in that scenario. Snail; Theodoxus fluviatilis Meanwhile the puffer MIGHT go after them like food. They should be able to be placed in the shallow non-puffer water region. Since the mudskippers don't eat snails, right? So, they might be able to proliferate and form an idle source of food. Not to mention, they can breed and handle colder water. Macro Algae; Ceramium tenuicorne If you can obtain a northern sample of the Baltic Sea, they can handle pretty much almost Fresh Water conditions. Should be fairly unique in the sense, it is rare to see macroalgae in Fresh Water set-ups that look similar to Ocean plants. But it also depends on better water rotation. If you go for any of the Plant or macroalgae, Gammarus sp. It is a very small shrimp variation. Not very attractive but it should handle small algae and potentially work as a small snack for the Puffer. Snail; Potamopyrgus antipodarum Only 3mm big. Survives in brackish water. Basically, I am looking at various creatures that live in northern Baltic sea. Using a swedish website; www.havet.nu/livet/arter . If you use a Website Google Translate add-on or similar, you can easily read a bit shallow about everything. The important part is when clicking on something that you check the map for the blue line. This indicate where it lives. The further up the Northern border of Sweden, the better it can handle Freshwater. The most northern species are essentially Freshwater organisms. Shouldn't be too difficult to obtain these. Since they aren't protected by any particular Law. Molluscs and Snails along with Algae tend to only be protected if threatened. And sending a package to San Fransisco(?) from Sweden... These should survive the trip!
Yeah! So happy you went with some of our recommendations, also Is that some Java fern I see in the tank, that a few of us mentioned also for brackish water?!?! Good job.
I have a question, all footage of Mudskippers that I saw thus far shows them on dry land walking around. Do they actually swim because they are still...you know...FISH?
-cries- I really want a pea puffer or two or so for my nano tank, but I also want more of a community tank... So that wouldn't be an option for me. But they're cool fish! So, in the beginning of the video, I thought the mudskipper was swimming around in the water and I was like, "oo, they do swim around!" but as I kept watching as you yakked in the front, I realized it was the puffer. I'm pretty sure. It looked small. Anyway, I do like hearing all about the process of getting the fish, decisions, etc. as a fish keeper /aquarist/hobbyist/whatever. I can always find a nature video if I wanted to watch fish swim around for 10 minutes straight. Having a separate video may or may not be more work for you, but it'll appease both crowds I guess.
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So, a lot of you are commenting about wanting to see more footage of the fish and tank, and less of me. Well, I have listened. If you check back to watch my release next Wednesday, you will see all the footage on this setup (fish, tank, etc), as well as a little change and some bonus footage at the end.
You could put mollies in the mudskipper tank
I subbed to see this! Of course, I still wanna hear what you have to say. I hope suggestions like this don't silence you because you've got good information, and these aren't common animals to see as pets with such nice quality footage.
Apparently puffers do better in twos
watch out with those snales. they break there teeth. give them mussel or crayfish. they love it
Was about to comment that you could improve your videos by filming the tank while talking but it seems like everyone beat me to it.
I had a brackish tank back in the 90's where I kept a HUGE Green Spotted Puffer. He was loaded with personality and was my favorite fish I ever had. Dont let the cuteness of the puffer fool you, they are as hostile as they are adorable. They are more aggressive than most cichlids . Its so good to see Puffers getting love shown in the hobby. Thank you for listening to your subscribers.
In my experience most figure 8s are not as aggressive as GSP. I guess the potential is always there though. Puffers are the best this is really making me rethink starting my 40b reef or get back into F8 puffers ;-)
First the mudskippers I've always wanted to keep, then then my favorite puffer, in the same tank?!!? You've earned a sub
Thank you!
Not a lot of people doing brackish, love it zenzo!
I had a dragon gobie in with my mudskipers and they did very well together. It's a filter feeder so it sifts the sand to find food. I also had gost shrimp that would reproduce in this setup, as well as a few bumble bee gobies. Quite the oddball group.
I'm glad you went with the F8 Puffer so you can help share the requirements of keeping them properly. They are a very rewarding fish to keep and very docile as far as puffers go. I have kept them with guppies and bumblebee gobies with zero agression.
Still super stoked about this tank, great addition. Makes me want to set up one.
Really love the skipper tank man!! Really nice looking scape. Puffers are my favorite, Great mix!
one of the best tank stocking and scape combo ive seen yet
Evolution at its finest love the mud skippers 👍❤️
Not to tell you how to do your job, but is there a way to talk while we watch the animals? You don't gotta be Ants Canada and make it all a story or anything, it's just nice to see the animals more. I love these guys. I like the puffer too. Puffers are cute; they have that passive aggressive smiley face to go along with that passive aggressive defense of theirs. Anyway, I'm a fan of more screen time for the critters. Other than that, very informative! Good video!
Haha! I’ve heard that more than a few times. I have a video that’s comes out next Wednesday on this tank that is all footage. Thanks for watching!
@@TazawaTanks Excellent! I just subbed so I won't miss it!
Apparently puffers do better in twos
@@jackcurtis6402 I wouldn't know. I'd kill these poor fellas, the whole lot of the them just because I'm a forgetful dog owner whose dogs remind me almost every other day that I forgot to feed them. right now it's so cold, I gotta stand by the door when I let 'em out just so I don't forget they're outside. (I make up for late meals with homemade salmon snacks.)
Some small mangrove plants in the water/land area would just complete the whole thing.
JustAnotherInsectNerd maybe a few branches of driftwood too
You guys ideas are awesome
I LOVE ❤️ this fish combo! What a great tank!
Cool set up man!
Wow , this Aquarium is absolutely looking pretty amazing , really beautiful to watch all many different kinds of fish .
Well thought out and executed. Loving my puffers: Fahaka, Dog Faced, and Amazons. Oh, and the three Pea Puffers. Thanks Tazawa!
Hey zenzo, i like your figure 8 brother. Hes badass for sure, ive always been a fan of the puffer smile! Mudskippers look setteled in to the max now. Too cool, keep it up and thanks for your hard work💪
That tank is becoming AWESOME ✌
Awesome! Looks like I have to find myself another new tank and find out more about keeping mudskippers...
Awesome that the Puffer is doing good! I’ve been sure to feed the puffers lots of snails, brine shrimp and other goodies to keep them full and happy. Good to see that one go to a good home!
Yes! I am loving this tank.
GORGEOUS setup!! Love it!!
I've always wanted mudskippers. I set up my brackish tank for them, but never did get them. I've had my F8 for about 5 years now though. My Puffer likes freeze dried krill. I've kept BB gobies with my F8 for years without issue. My puffer "Butterbean" is pretty timid though. And the gobies will never get big enough. Not only will an aggresive puffer kill much larger fish, but the gobies never get bigger than about a half an inch or so (and that's big one). The crabs are more likely to get eaten by the puffer. Endlers look great with the F8 puffers too.
I love the set up. Can't wait to see how it develops.
I love that you're doing a brackish tank. Before I found your channel, I fell in love with brackish. I ordered mudskippers, figure 8s, knight gobies, fiddler crabs and bumblebee gobies online around New years. The bumblebees and crabs never came and the skippers, puffer, and knights took forever to arrive, so all are still in separate quarantine tanks right now. I'm putting the puffer in with black mollies, and the knight gobies and guppies in with the mudskippers when everyone is out of quarantine. I'm still hoping to find bumblebees and fiddlers to reorder soon. Thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to seeing how your tank turns out.
Sounds like you have some great stuff in the works! Next Wednesday I have an update on the tank with something new as well!
The skippers looks good! The figure 8 Puffer is a nice addition 👍
I really like the commentary. But I lowkey want an hour long video of just the mudskippers in the tank. So calming to look at them going by their business
Hahaha! If you check back next Wednesday, you may kind of get what you are looking for!
@@TazawaTanks Will do :O
Thanks for the update 😀 another thumbs up 😁 guppies and their fry are the way I would go ☺
I just found your channel. I can’t wait to see all that you’ve got going on! Tanks look original. Cool deal. Keep it real.
Good 🐟 awesome tanks as always man!
HAHA Love the names. Moe, Larry and Curly! The tank looks great! And the Fish
Aye! He got the puffer! Im so glad you took mine along with others idea! Or your own idea idk idc just glad you did!
I love puffer fish, I'm going to buy me 2 this weekend for my 20 long. nice tank
Tank looks awesome, bro!!!! You could try knight gobies or purple spotted gudgeons, that would be cool, too
That puffer is adorable. (:
Such an underrated youtuber
Thanks, I really appreciate that. Little by little my channel is growing!
Yeah can’t wait till you hit 100k! Lol!
Me either! Lol!
Nice job dude! Looks amazing! Can't wait to get more of this!
Sweet! The Tank is really cool! What a great idea A brackish community!
Very nice puffer. Too cute man
I really love this tank , it's so beautiful and clear . +1 sub
Your puffer is so adorable.
Awesome vid! I definitely want to keep a figure 8 someday. They look so cool
Well the mud skippers naturally live along side fidler crabs just a thought on something to add
Wow! Super awesome aquarium and beautiful fish! Thanks for sharing!
What rock did you use
Thanks for the great information and you have a beautiful setup
I have a figure 8 puffer. He lives with a guppy colony and has an amazing personality. I love figure 8s!!!
I dont feed mine MTS though. They have a very tough shell. Ramshorn blatter and pond snails are great
I was going to say the same thing. I have two figure 8 puffers in quarantine right now and while researching beforehand everything I read said DON'T feed MTS because they are so hard that they can actually break their beaks. Mine have been chowing down on pond snails and ramshorn. Sam, does your puffer bother the guppies at all?
Interesting. Mine has been chewing them up without issue.
I have been putting in ones that don’t have very thick shells though. I will keep an eye on things.
I love the mudskipper tank also cool puffer💙💙💙💙💙
Oooooo myyyy!!!! The puffer is soooooo cute!!!! He'd rock the name Chester 😊
I have a chameleon named Chester haha. Hes a boss
Honestly man i just leave the take as is it looks great and i think as these fish grow i think it going to be an epic tank, i would look at if possible some floating plants would look nice but honestly i love it as is and may make a copy setup with an 100 giving the skippers half just to see more land action.
The tank looks cool! Maybe some decor?
Some rocks for the puffer to hide will look good
Amazing brackish water aquarium and setup, makes me want to do one now also haha
I love you’re videos so much they are the best you deserve more subscribers
First off...the Puffer obviously has to be named Shemp! The 4th Stooge!
Secondly.... YES to the Guppy idea. Natural food for all of your Main which would save $$ in the long run. Plus would add color to the tank.
Finally...amazing vid! Glad to see the tank coming to a point of completion for you. You should make a Mudskipper Playlist.
Try using rhodondendron brenches as mangrove roots. And there are a lot of livebearers that are suitable fot a brackish aquarium.
You should add Bala Sharks, the medium ones grow to a good size (won't be attacked by the Puffer or the Mud skippers) and they are also mediumly aggressive (not more aggressive than the mudskippers or puffer), so they will do well in an 'aggressive aquarium'.
@XxKiller_KoolaidmanxX Then don't add them 😂 Oops
Hey, random ass question but between male and female fiddler crabs which would u think would be more dangerous to like 2.5 inch mudskippers?
I have never kept fiddler crabs. However, I would guess the males to be more dangerous, as they have a much larger claw, where the females only have small claws.
You could try fidler crabs since they will probably make their burrows by mudskipper but you did say in past video it's not a full mound of sand. I would give it a try. Walmart sells them.
Maybe add a bit more rockwork or other forms of decor in the main reservoir of the tank. Puffers like to explore an interesting environment and can get bored and be prone to swimming up and down the glass nonstop if they're not sufficiently stimulated. Otherwise it looks great, love the mudskippers, love the figure-8 (the one I had years ago was my favorite fish of all time, tbh). With a bit more decor to break line of sight and hide in the bumblebee gobies would do well, but otherwise the puffer will be plenty happy left to himself and his invertebrate snacks.
A cool fish that would look good and not many people get, are the dragon fish from Walmart. I know Walmart fish suck or could have parasites but if you quarantine them, it'll be fine. They're amazing fish and can live in brackish water. They are also called the Violet Goby
You should put in fiddler crabs like 2 because they fit perfect in your tank they do well in brackish too BUT I don't know if the crabs will attack the puffer or mudskippers
I'm really enjoying this tank!!!! So different from what we're used to see, very special! +1 Sub
Also, @Tazawa Tanks, you could probably add some sort of eel
I had very small bumblebee gobies with my fig 8. He did not bother them.
So I don’t see many people keeping them but if you want something unique add a “flounder”. The ones in the aquarium trade are I believe a type of sole and at one time I had the scientific name down. Only thing is you will need a little more sand on the bottom so they can burrow. I have 2 in my 40B and they are awesome. Psuedomogils are also an option here. I have a white false cheek goby as well, very cool but he defiantly has his territory. He jus burrowed out a hole under my fake mangroves and the sand and hangs out there most of the time. I’ll send you a message with my
Flounder
If you didn’t know brackish fish can live in salt and fresh water tanks. I think you should do a mangrove reef with the mudskippers and the puffer!
Awesome addition!
Thanks brotha! 🤙🏾
Maybe some bigger snails (Terebralia or Telescopium if you can get them) to help clear detritus? Seconding the suggestion of archer fish, too.
Yes Figure 8s are great! feed them a variety of food along with snails as a treat a 2-3 times a week. These puffers are very interactive with their environments so they can get bored quickly. Bumblebee gobies will do well with the puffer. These puffers do not hunt fish only invertebrates. The will tolerate speedy fish like Endlers, Guppies, Swordtails, Platys, Mollies, but can get overwhelmed by their flighty movements. They will not eat any fry from them either though the mudskippers might. You can also try adding in ghost shrimps which might be live food for the puffer, but puffers have been known to tolerate them in their tanks. Check out Dan Hiteshew's puffer named Butterbean on his YT channel.
Amazing I love mud skippers
Thanks for the videos. Would love more info on brackish tank mates.
Nice puffer braddah loving it!! 🤙🏽🐠🤙🏽
Nice chuck of Malaysian wood with Java Fern superglued to it would look nice with the puffer. :). Cute tank!
Great set up
I keep spoted and figure 8 puffers in with bumblebee gobies. However, I recommend you put in the gobies first before the puffers are added.
You can get brackish leeches, leeches are just worms that live in water and most species ONLY eat detritus. It would bring both colour and something to clean to the aquarium and it would certainly be unique.
Bad ass tank setup
I miss my figure 8s
Could you put like living oysters in there? I have no idea how you would do it but it would be insanely cool!
Ive found wisteria and hyrgrophilla grows well in brackish h2o
Great to know, thanks!
If you had the time to feed and you want something out there then think about a pipe fish. They do need either live food always swimming with them or small feeds of frozen throughout the day just like a seahorse. I'm pretty sure they can be kept brackish. Thanks.
I hereby name the puffer Shemp. Another fun video Zenzo!
The puffer might try and eat the crab and crabs pinch hard. Puffers can receive eye damage from crabs, so be careful if you add them. You could try adding some oysters or brackish water clams. Acherfish can also have brackish water species along with Anableps Anableps a live bearer that can get 5-6 inches long and are also known as the 4 -eyed fish, as each eyeball has two separate lenses and retinas. One to look above the water and one to look below the water. Mono fish can also be used. There are different types of brackish water gobies that are larger than the bumblebee gobies. The common goby (Pomatoschistus microps) is a species of ray-finned fish native to fresh and brackish waters along the Atlantic and Baltic Sea coasts of Europe and northern Africa, with a range stretching from Norway to Morocco and Mauritania. It is also found in the Canary Islands. Hopefully to big for a mudskipper to eat. It grows to 9 cm or 3.5 inches.
I think that a small school of Celebes Rainbow
(Telmatherina ladigesi) would make a great addition to your brackish water aquarium.
Put a couple rocks or atleast 1 long leafed green plant with the puffer.
If you obtain more water rotation somehow, Plant suggestion; Fucus vesiculosus .
Not the most colourful or green. But it is certainly unique! It will also lower the chances of Algae spread. But, it does require more than a simple bubbler för water rotation. A gyre of some sort might be better in that scenario.
Snail; Theodoxus fluviatilis
Meanwhile the puffer MIGHT go after them like food. They should be able to be placed in the shallow non-puffer water region. Since the mudskippers don't eat snails, right? So, they might be able to proliferate and form an idle source of food. Not to mention, they can breed and handle colder water.
Macro Algae; Ceramium tenuicorne
If you can obtain a northern sample of the Baltic Sea, they can handle pretty much almost Fresh Water conditions. Should be fairly unique in the sense, it is rare to see macroalgae in Fresh Water set-ups that look similar to Ocean plants. But it also depends on better water rotation.
If you go for any of the Plant or macroalgae, Gammarus sp.
It is a very small shrimp variation. Not very attractive but it should handle small algae and potentially work as a small snack for the Puffer.
Snail; Potamopyrgus antipodarum
Only 3mm big. Survives in brackish water.
Basically, I am looking at various creatures that live in northern Baltic sea. Using a swedish website; www.havet.nu/livet/arter .
If you use a Website Google Translate add-on or similar, you can easily read a bit shallow about everything. The important part is when clicking on something that you check the map for the blue line. This indicate where it lives. The further up the Northern border of Sweden, the better it can handle Freshwater. The most northern species are essentially Freshwater organisms.
Shouldn't be too difficult to obtain these. Since they aren't protected by any particular Law. Molluscs and Snails along with Algae tend to only be protected if threatened. And sending a package to San Fransisco(?) from Sweden... These should survive the trip!
Dragon Goby also known as Violet Gody however they do get huge so maybe not a great idea
Yeah! So happy you went with some of our recommendations, also Is that some Java fern I see in the tank, that a few of us mentioned also for brackish water?!?! Good job.
Love the puffer. This is a very cool tank. I think you should leave as it is. Lol.
oh yeah yeah another video
Get some knight gobies! I have a couple and they are one of my favorite fish! They are a lot bigger than the bumblebee gobies too
Another good video I love the puffer bro
I have a question, all footage of Mudskippers that I saw thus far shows them on dry land walking around. Do they actually swim because they are still...you know...FISH?
They spend some time in the water, but they don’t really swim around like fish. They will sit in shallow pools or lay at the bottom of the tank.
I want (more) Bumblebee Goby! For some reason they seem to be extremely rare in Cananda because I can't find them.
great content brother gain a sub!
That guppy idea would be cool. with just the puffer rn the submerged side feels empty.
Unique brackish fish is a freshwater flounder. I have always wanted to keep them, but have never done brackish.
Brent Young go get yourself a 40Breeder and fill it with pool
Filter sand and do it! I’ve been keeping them for about 2 years and they are awesome!
Archer fish. But you would need to put some branches over the water so crickets can climb.
i love the puffer !!!!
-cries- I really want a pea puffer or two or so for my nano tank, but I also want more of a community tank... So that wouldn't be an option for me. But they're cool fish!
So, in the beginning of the video, I thought the mudskipper was swimming around in the water and I was like, "oo, they do swim around!" but as I kept watching as you yakked in the front, I realized it was the puffer. I'm pretty sure. It looked small.
Anyway, I do like hearing all about the process of getting the fish, decisions, etc. as a fish keeper /aquarist/hobbyist/whatever. I can always find a nature video if I wanted to watch fish swim around for 10 minutes straight. Having a separate video may or may not be more work for you, but it'll appease both crowds I guess.
Get a couple x Ray tetras with the figure 8 puffer
what about a serpent of sorts or loach. idk if there are brackish breeds tho.
You should add like 3 or 4 fiddler crabs! :D
I recently got a figure 8 puffer but dont know if i can put anything else with it