List of brackish aquarium fish species

This is a list of commonly seen fish that can be kept in a brackish water aquarium.

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Cyprinidontiformes

Common name	Taxonomy	Picture	Size	Tank Type	Care Level	Remarks
Poeciliids
Guppy	Poecilia reticulata			Community	Easy	Many color and tail pattern varieties exist
Black molly	Poecilia sphenops			Community	Easy
Sailfin molly	Poecilia latipinna			Community	Easy	Gold and silver varieties commonly found.
Others
Four-eyed fish	Anableps spp.		12"		Easy	These fish can see above and below water.
American Flagfish	Jordanella floridae			Community	Easy	May eat hair algae, but also may eat plants.

Pufferfish

Common name	Taxonomy	Picture	Size	Tank Type	Care Level	Remarks
Common Toadfish, Toado	Tetractenos hamiltoni		4"	Species tank or with other fish too large to bully.	Easy to Intermediate	Rarely seen in the aquarium trade, even in Australia, where it is native. Adaptable to a wide range of conditions and habitats, from marginal, polluted freshwater-brackish creeks to fully marine seagrass flats, as long as the habitat is sheltered from strong currents.
Figure 8 pufferfish	Tetraodon biocellatus		4"		Intermediate
Green spotted puffer	Tetraodon nigroviridis		6"		Difficult	often sold as freshwater fish, but this species actually thrives in brackish water and may even require saltwater when reaches adulthood

Gobies

Common name	Taxonomy	Picture	Size	Tank Type	Care Level	Remarks
Bumblebee goby	Brachygobius xanthozonus		1.5"
Water Cow	Eleotris picta		17"
Violet goby, Dragon goby	Gobioides broussonnetii		21"	Brackish community tank	intermidiate	Though pet stores often label as "vicious" this fish is actually quite harmless
Mudskipper (Barred Mudskipper)	Periophthalmus argentilineatus		6"			This fish requires "land" to crawl out of the water.
Mudskipper (Atlantic Mudskipper)	Periophthalmus barbarus		9"			This fish requires "land" to crawl out of the water.
Knight goby	Stigmatogobius sadanundio		3.5"

Cichlids

Common name	Taxonomy	Picture	Size	Tank Type	Care Level	Remarks
Cichlids
Blackchin tilapia	Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron		11"
Orange chromide	Etroplus maculatus		3"
Green chromide	Etroplus suratensis		15"

Other fishes

Common name	Taxonomy	Picture	Size	Tank Type	Care Level	Remarks
Siamese tigerfish	Datnioides microlepis		18"			These fish must be kept in large aquaria.
Reedfish	Erpetoichthys calabaricus		15.7"	Species		This is the only Polypterid that is found in brackish water.
Celebes Rainbowfish	Marosatherina ladigesi		3.1"			Commonly sold for freshwater, but does better in brackish.
Silver moony	Monodactylus argenteus		10"			These fish are also known from marine habitats.
African moony	Monodactylus sebae		10"			These fish are also known from marine habitats.
Indian glassy fish	Parambassis ranga		3.1"			These fish are often dyed.
Targetfish, Jarbua terapon	Terapon jarbua		14"			These fish breed in saltwater and the young return to freshwater.
Banded archerfish	Toxotes jaculatrix	File:Toxotes jaculatrix 1280.jpg	12"			These fish have the ability to shoot water to hit their insect prey.
Green Scat, Ruby Scat	Scatophagus argus		15"	Community, especially with Monodactylus sp. (Monos)	Intermediate	A ravenous herbivore that quickly defoliates any aquatic plants in the aquarium. One of the few common brackish water plants in the trade, the Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus) appears to be toxic to these fish and should not be planted with "scats".

See also

• List of fish common names
• List of freshwater aquarium fish species
• List of freshwater aquarium plant species
• List of freshwater aquarium amphibian species
• List of marine aquarium fish species