Orange Chromide in Saltwater?

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Hello! First off, sorry that this is under SA and CA Cichlids, despite Orange Chromides being from Asia. Anyways, does anyone know if wild caught Orange Chromides can live in full saltwater? I currently have a wild caught one in my 55 gallon freshwater tank, and I know they can be brackish. However, I’m wanting to turn my 55 gallon tank into a cold water native (and other cold water fish) tank, and the Orange Chromide is more of a warm water fish. And the Orange Chromide was about $30 and is really unique, so I would like to keep it. The other tanks I could put it in is: a 10 gallon tank (growing out a Chaca Chaca Catfish and baby Madtoms), a 20 gallon Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Biotope Aquarium (but Orange Chromides wouldn’t be from there, and also it is currently saltwater atm), and a 37 gallon saltwater aquarium. If none of these can work, I’ll just rehome it. Also I could just put it into the 10 gallon, but I’m kind of concerned about the Chaca Chaca Catfish possibly eating it.
 
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Even Etroplus suratensus, while occasionally venturing into the sea, is a freshwater/brackish water fish.
Subjecting it to full constant sea water could be problematic.
And since both come from tropical areas in India, cooler temps could lead to Ich infections over time.
Even long stretches of low 70s'F could be unhealthy.

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Etroplus suratensus above.
E canarensus below
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