(1) Introduction
- What is brackish water?
- Estuarine and low salinity environments and habitats
- The basic equipment for a brackish aquarium
- Common and not so common brackish water fishes
- What fish can’t be kept in a brackish water aquarium
- Are there any books on the subject?
(2) Setting up the brackish water aquarium
- Artificial sea water and measuring salinity
- Water chemistry and temperature
- Substrates and tank decor
- Planting the brackish water aquarium
- Healthcare and medication
- Breeding brackish water fishes
(3) Commonly available fishes
- Monos (Monodactylus spp.)
- Scats and Argusfishes (Scatophagus and Selenotoca spp.)
- Archerfishes (Toxotes spp.)
- Targetfish (Terapon jarbua)
- Brackish Water Pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae)
- Cichlids (family Cichlidae)
- Mollies (Mollienesia or Poecilia)
- Rainbowfishes (family Melanotaeniidae)
- Silversides (family Atherinidae)
(4) Predatory fish
- Gar (Lepisosteus and Atractosteus spp.)
- Colombian shark catfishes (family Ariidae)
- Sleeper gobies (family Eleotridae)
- Siamese tiger fish (Coius or Datnioides spp.)
- Ropefishes (Erpetoichthys calabaricus)
- Freshwater moray eel (family Muraenidae)
- Bullrouts (Notesthes robusta)
- Flatfishes and soles (family Soleidae and others)
- Spiny eels (family Mastacembelidae)
- Needlefish (family Belonidae)
- Butterfly-goby waspfish (Neovespicular depressifrons)
(5) Oddball fish
- Four-eyed fish (Anableps spp.)
- False four-eyed fish (Rhinomugil corsula)
- Mudskippers (Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus)
(6) Small fish
- Killifish (family Cyprinodontidae)
- Bumblebee and other gobies (family Gobiidae)
- Glassfish (family Ambassidae, formerly Chandidae)
- Pipefishes (family Syngnathidae)
- Livebearers (family Poecilidae)
- Halfbeaks (families Zenarchopteridae)
- Blennies (family Blennidae)
- Spaghetti Eels (Moringua spp)
- Glass Eels and Rice Paddy Eels (Pisodonophis spp)
(7) Marine fish
- Introducing marine fish to brackish water aquaria
- Marine puffers (Arothron hispidus and others)
- Batfishes (Platax spp.)
- Snappers and Sea Breams (Lutjanidae/Sparidae)
- Damselfishes (family Pomacentridae)
- Eel-catfishes (Plotosus spp.)
- Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.)
- Pike-conger eels (Congresox talabonoides)
- Bar-tailed flathead (Platycephalus indicus)
(8) Invertebrates and native brackish water fish
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