Can some one tell me if mudskippers are saltwater or freshwater?

they are brackish water they also need a fairly large tank as they jump at about a foot at a time i wanted to keep them, but you do need a fairly large aquarium. You have to fill the tank with brackish water ranging from 1.010 to 1.015 in salinity, and pH needs to be around 8.0 or slightly higher.

edit: they also mostly need live foods, as they usually reject dried

Wow thx for that info. I see them at the pet shop now and well i just wanted to know more about them.

they are gorgeous little creatures, i love them to bits but they do need a lot of time devoted to them regular water changes are absolutely essential as they seem to be quite picky little things

Cool, also i heard from some one that they are pricey, but there at that pet shop there only 12 bucks.. That's not bad but ya i see they need alot of care.

there really worth the effort, these guys get very trusting and will take frozen foods from your hand,
but as tink said to keep them properly you need a big tank.
i would build a beach effect as they spend a lot of the time out of the water

about something Tink said, filling a large tank with brackish water... Mudskippers don't need a full tank. They only need an inch or so of water. What they require is a bottom of fine sand, banking into a "shore" arrangement with one side above water and the other side beneath it, since mudskippers like to crawl and hop on the "shore" but must return periodically to the water to wet their gills. The tank could also be decorated with driftwood since the fish like to sit on it when they're out of water and the cover galss must cover the whole tank to maintain high humidity in the tank (ideally, condensation must keep the glass sides foggy even if this means you won't see the inside of the tank )

They enjoy catching live prey on the sand too but only slow moving ones like freshly-molted mealworms.

Thx for the info.

i meant they will need a large tank (for 'skipping' room) with brackish water

BTW, I saw pipefishes at the LFS again today and I immediately thought of you kagome100... how's your little guy doing these days?

He's doing good, im feeding baby birne shrimp to him every day and he eats them. He is doing very good in his tank.

My friend got a mudskipper today yep, she got it from the pet shop i saw them at. It looks so cute. She has it in a 10 gallon tank right now with half land and half water. It's only about 2 inches long right now.

Uh.....dis is off topic but did u get ur name from Inuyasha?

does your friend have a bigger tank ready? its not going to be able to stay in there for long..

Yes i did, it's my fave anime.

ok back on topic:

She told me she could not get a bigger tank for some time. I dont' know why she got the mudskipper she just wanted it. They told her at the pet shop it would be fine in the 10gallon, guess she needs to stop doing what the pet shop people say. She don't have a computer so she can't get on here.

*sigh*
well i strongly suggest you tell her to start saving for a bigger tank. We all know how attached we get to our babies, and im sure she's hate to lose him....

Well I told her, and she said she will save up, she is only 15 years old so she dont' have a job yet. She does things for her parents so maybe she can get some money from them.