Yeah I have one. They're allenbatrachus grunniens or grunting toadfish. They tend to grunt when disturbed. When I bought mine he was an adult and supposedly had been in freshwater his entire life. After noticing that mine was developing some white fungus, I did some research to find that these guys are much better in brackish, and as soon as I decided to buy and add marine salt, mine lost the white fungus and began to look much better overall. I decided to to start a brackish tank by slowly increasing the salinity by .002 weekly till it got to 1.008 and thats where I keep it. He's with a Dragon Goby and a Archer and doing great!!! (My Profile Pic is Him)
Freshwater stonefish
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I've owned several stone fish.
1. The species Batrachomoeus trispinosus I've had on four occasions and still presently have one. Since it is a brackish to full marine fish, I keep it in those ranges of water. The longest I've had one live is only 6 years.
2. The species Thalassophryne amazonica is a TRUE FRESHWATER species and I have one of these also and a good one for people wanting one that does not need or like saltwater. Mine is in it's third year in one of my tanks. It does not grow as big as B. trispinosus so can be housed in a smaller tank. Mine is in a planted 38 litre/10 g and doing well with a colony of guppies as its food source. It is in the Batrachoididae family and I believe there are 4 other species in its genus but they are all brackish to marine. It is venomous but not nearly as bad as the genus Bratrachomoeus.
3. There is only one other stone fish in the Batrachoididae family that I believe is true freshwater, but I have never seen it in any of the petshops. It is Daector quadrizonatus.
Thanks for this. There is still little study done on these species in their natural habitat so the more info people who keep them give, the better care future stone fish keepers can give. So keep sharing your experiences. I know I had a lot of issues getting the facts on these guys when I bought one.
I think I read that the daector species looks much like the thalassophryne except the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins are not continuous, as they are with thalassophryne.
