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Macrognathus aculeatus is one of the related eels that does enter brackish water. One of its common names is (Lesser) Peacock Eel http://www.fishbase.org/summary/5152 Use the Latin name if you have to order this fish, they are uncommon, and you will probably get the wrong fish if you just go by com...

It's unfortunately impossible to keep hillstream loaches in brackish condidions. They live in a fast flowing rivers - so it is impossible that those waters can be brackish. It happens only in slow moving rivers nearby a sea or an ocean. It's impossible for the salt water to climb up the stream :D O...

I'm setting up a brackish water tank and am planning to get 6 Indian mudskippers, they can handle a gravity of 1.003. And i am wondering if i can get some hillstream loaches with them because i am making a waterfall so i can see their behavior of clinging on rocks and stuff. Would this be possible? ...