A brackish water fish: Siamese tigerfish, Datnioides microlepis

Keeping brackish water aquaria is a popular specialization within the fishkeeping hobby. Many species of fish traded as freshwater species actually do better in brackish water, for example mollies, Florida flagfish, and some cichlids such as chromides and black-chin tilapia. There are also several popular species traded purely as brackish water fish, including monos spp, scats, archerfish, and various species of pufferfish, goby, flatfish, and gar. Generally aquarists need to maintain a specific gravity of around 1.005 to 1.010 depending on the species being kept, but practically all brackish water fish tolerate variations in salinity well, and some aquarists maintain that regularly fluctuating the salinity in the aquarium actually keeps the fish healthy and free of parasites. Brackish redirects here. ... Aquarium is also the name of the Russian band, which is also spelled Akvarium A 335,000 gallon (1. ... Fishkeeping is a popular hobby concerned with keeping fish in the home aquarium or garden pond. ... For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ... Poecilia sphenops is a species of fish, of the genus Poecilia, known under the Common Name Molly. ... Genera Cichlids (pronounced “sick-lids”) are fishes from the family Cichlidae in the order Perciformes. ... Species Etroplus canarensis Etroplus maculatus Etroplus suratensis Etroplus is a small genus of cichlids with only three species. ... Genera and species Oreochromis A. Günther,1889   Oreochromis alcalica - Alkaline tilapia   Oreochromis aureus - Blue tilapia   Oreochromis macrochir - Longfin tilapia   Oreochromis mossambicus - Mozambique tilapia   Oreochromis niloticus niloticus - Nile tilapia   Oreochromis urolepis urolepis - Rufigi tilapia   Oreochromis urolepis hornorum - Wami tilapia Sarotherodon W. P. E. S. Rüppell, 1852   Sarotherodon galilaeus galilaeus... Genera Monodactylus Schuettea Monodactylidae (moonfishes, fingerfishes) is a family of about 6 species of fishes, in the order Perciformes. ... Genera The scats are a small family, Scatophagidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. ... Species Toxotes blythii Toxotes chatareus Toxotes jaculatrix Toxotes lorentzi Toxotes microlepis Toxotes oligolepis The archerfish (also seen as archer fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish notable for their habit of preying on insects and other small animals by shooting them down with water pellets from their specialized mouths. ... Genera Amblyrhynchotes Arothron Auriglobus Canthigaster Carinotetraodon Chelonodon Colomesus Contusus Ephippion Feroxodon Fugu Gastrophysus Javichthys Lagocephalus Liosaccus Marilyna Monotretus Omegaphora Pelagocephalus Polyspina Reicheltia Sphoeroides Takifugu Tetractenos Tetraodon Torquigener Tylerius Xenopterus For species see text The pufferfish, also called blowfish, swellfish, globefish, balloonfish are fish making up the family Tetraodontidae, within the... Subfamilies Amblyopinae Gobiinae Gobionellinae Oxudercinae Sicydiinae See also list of Gobiidae genera The gobies form the family Gobiidae, which is one of the largest families of fish, with more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. ... Families Suborder Psettodoidei     Psettodoidae Suborder Pleuronectoidei     Citharidae     Scophthalmidae     Bothidae (lefteye flounders)     Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders)     Paralichthyidae     Achiropsettidae (southern flounders)     Samaridae Suborder Soleoidei     Soleidae (soles)     Achiridae (American soles)     Cynoglossidae (tonguefishes) The flatfish are an order (Pleuronectiformes) of ray-finned fish, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. ... Species Atractosteus spatula Atractosteus tristoechus Atractosteus tropicus Lepisosteus oculatus Lepisosteus osseus Lepisosteus platostomus Lepisosteus platyrhincus In American English the name gar (or garpike) is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine, waters... Relative density (also known as specific gravity) is a measure of the density of a material. ... Annual mean sea surface salinity for the World Ocean. ...

See also

• Aquarium
• Brackish water
• Fishkeeping

For other uses, see Aquarium (disambiguation). ... Brackish redirects here. ... Fishkeeping is a popular hobby concerned with keeping fish in the home aquarium or garden pond. ...

External links

• Brackish Water Aquarium FAQ

Further reading

• Frank Schäfer (2005). Brackish-Water Fishes. Aqualog. ISBN 393602782X (English), ISBN 3936027811 (German)
• Neale Monks, ed. (2006). Brackish-Water Fishes. TFH. ISBN 0793805643