Scats
Scats
By: racial fish
Common Name: Scat,silver scat,green scat
Latin Name: Scatophagus argus
Origin: Coastal areas of south Asia
Temperature: 78-82°F 25-28°C
Ease Of Keeping: Moderate to easy
Aggressivness: Moderate ...
I love silver scats. I used to have around 8 banded scats at one stage but have sold some and given others away. I now have 3. They are cool little fish and I have noticed that they can't stand to be alone. They always have to be in group.
Axolotls, badis badis, gobies, puffers, reedfish, gars, apple snails, crayfish, scats, African clawed frogs and others.
Species are in alphabetical order according to their Latin names ...
Most of the ones included here will be in the suborder percoidei and include the Glassfishes, Flashers, Sunfishes, True Perches, Fingerfishes or Moonfishes, Archerfishes, and Scats (Argusfishes). Many of these fish are brackish, but not all.
Scats are herbivorous and will therefore consume plants in great quantities. These are also known to eat detritus in the wild.
Puffers
Scats
Monos
Archers
Other Brackish water fish
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Most Moors and Scats can cooexist with cichlids as long as they have been acclimated to brackish water. There are also a variety of brackish water catfish to choose from.
Use caution with Scats. They have spines that are venomous. It is not known what type of effective they poison can have on a human. As stated before, Scats start out being Brackish water fish with a specific gravity of about 1.008.
I have 6 red scats 3 silver scat and 1 green scat living in a 350 L aquarium with 2 sharks baroon 2 monos and a green severum I noticed that when they grew up red scats have lots of fights between them and they also attack silver scats which are 2 ...
I've kept them with monodactylus, scats, mollies, gar-pikes, convict cichlids, mbuna...all sorts of things. They are supposed to eat small fish. Never seen it myself, but why take the chance? They will spit in captivity.
Scats- Scats make good partners because of the way they actually eat the detritus and some waste in the tank. With puffers being as messy as they are, it's not a bad idea to have some of these guys around.
Young Scats can be kept in fresh orbrackish water, but adults prefer salt water as they live mostly in the ocean. These fish consume great quantitiesof food, therefore regular water changes are essential. Scats undergo a metamorphosis while young.
The three species of Scats belong to a family of fishes that literally translated means "dung eaters". So it is obvious that they will eat anything, and lots of it! Their dorsal spine is mildly venomous, so watch out.
Certain fish, like livebearers and of course brackish water specimens (those that inhabit waters with significant salt levels) like monos, scats, ...
The other brackish water species, including Scats, Anableps, Archers, Glass Fish, Leaf Fish, Ropefish, Puffers, Eels, Gobies, Monos, Flounders, Mudskippers, White-tipped Catfish, and Gars, ...
Some of these are Mono's and Scats. These are not picking the fights but can be aggrivated. Semi-agressive fish by temperamnet would be right for someone who is right in the middle.
Brackish Fishes
(monos, scats, some puffers, mollies, gobies, etc.)
7.8 to 8.0
moderately hard ...
Ideal tank mates include: Puffers, Scats, Monos, Archers and other Brackish Fish.
May be aggressive to their own kind or other puffers. Keep alone or with other larger brackish fish, such as monos and scats.
Temperature
24-28oC (75-82oF) ...
Initially most medium sized active fish, but with the addition of salt to the water as the fish grow, brackish water fish such as Monos, Scats or large Mollies are the order of the day.
Breeding ...
Archers belong in brackish water, a fact that is often overlooked. Their preferred environment consists of warm brackish water, which limits tank mates to other brackish fish. Possible tankmates include other Archers, Scats, Monos, Knight Gobies, ...
Further, brackish water fish generally need more room per fish to stay healthy than freshwater fish. Some commonly seen brackish water fish
include Monos - Monodactylus species, Archers - Toxotes species, Scats - Scatophagus species, ...
Salt tolerance, however, is likely to be low, but along comes a relative to the rescue - Ceratophyllum submersum, another British native, is naturally found in brackish estuaries, so those aquarists keeping Scats, ...
Some commonly seen brackish water fish include Monos - Monodactylus species, Archers - Toxotes species, Scats - Scatophagus species, and many species of Puffers (family Tetraodontidae).
Salt Water Fish ...
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