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Salvador Dali
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I have a 10 gallon aquarium with black gravel and some jungle ruins decor theam going on. this tank has been runing for about 5 weeks and is brackish water. right now i have no fish in it but ive been thinking about a figure eight puffer. does anyone else have any good ideas beside having a single puffer? (i dont like your average everyday fish, i rare enjoy oddballs)
thank you
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schambers
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Bumblebee gobies are brackish fish that stay small. You'd need a group of six or so. If you have some caves or hiding places, they could be kept with a puffer.
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KingDiamond
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Salvador Dali said :
I have a 10 gallon aquarium with black gravel and some jungle ruins decor theam going on. this tank has been runing for about 5 weeks and is brackish water. right now i have no fish in it but ive been thinking about a figure eight puffer. does anyone else have any good ideas beside having a single puffer? (i dont like your average everyday fish, i rare enjoy oddballs) thank you
Archerfish!!!! The coolest brackish fish you can get.
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Fish E
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Don't archer fish get to be around 10 inches? A little big for a 10 gallon! They are a cool fish though!
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archer would be too big for that tank but puffers and goby's good idea
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coupedefleur
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There are lots of cool unusual livebearers that take brackish-
Ameca splendens (hard to find a good photo of them- they're very sparkly and irridescent)
some of the smaller unusual mollys like P. caucana. 
I remember Langhammer was taking some weird livebearers that wanted salt and epsom salts.
Indian glass fish- Chanda sp.
Several killies, including Jordanella floridae, various desert pupfish, Lucania goodei,
Adinia xenca.
 
The Adina are fun- the female is spotty and the male is stripey.
You can sometimes find the Lucania in with ghost shrimp at Peg Supplies Plus.
Belonesox maybe? There's a cutie for you!
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coupedefleur
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KingDiamond said :
Archerfish!!!! The coolest brackish fish you can get. Oh, I dunno- I would think that Anableps would take that crown- "four" eyes, four sexes, climbing out of the water. Wouldn't that beat spitting at flies? Heck- we had a neighbor that would spit at flies!
Or maybe a mudskipper?!?
Seriously, don't a lot of tetras spit at flying insects as well?
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coupedefleur said :
Seriously, don't a lot of tetras spit at flying insects as well?
I have never heard of tetras spitting at insects!? If they do, it would be interesting to see which ones do then at one of our meetings we could all bring a spitting tetra and have a distance contest!
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hard to beat a manatee but may out grow the 10 shortly after birth
plus there is that whole site lic. thing LOL
I know its a bit campy but I really like the little puffers. they stay pretty small and are cool looking
plus not spitting at or killing of owners.
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KingDiamond
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Fish E said :
Don't archer fish get to be around 10 inches? A little big for a 10 gallon! They are a cool fish though!
They think that there are two different species. We have had ours for 12 years and they are no longer then 5 inches.
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