Can my flounder be acclimated to full marine?

td3025

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I'm sorry if i'm not posting this under the right area! I didn't know where exactly this question would fall. But I currently have two tanks running, a 30 gallon brackish tank and a 70 gallon saltwater tank. My 30 gallon tank WAS intended for my green spotted puffer, but I had adopted my green spotted from a home where he was neglected and unfortunately he only made it a month before passing. :( Anyways, In addition to the puffer, I also had a very small, 2 inch flounder in my brackish tank. Now, I don't plan on getting another puffer, but I really do like my flounder. If I could somehow eventually get my flounder into my marine tank that would really be convenient rather than having a 30 gallon brackish tank I don't necessarily want just because I like one tiny fish in there.


I honestly don't know what kind of flounder he is, I asked questions at the shop when I got him and they weren't much help other than agreeing with me that he was a brackish fish. His label at the store was simply "flounder" and he was only 4.99, in a tank with some bumblee gobies.

Here are some pictures. Is he a type that could eventually be acclimated to saltwater? Or do you think it is unsafe?
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I really would prefer to use my 30 gallon for a freshwater tank and move the one fish I like in there out and into my saltwater, but if it can't be done I assume I'll keep the tank and maybe put some gobies in it, even though all i really want it for is the flounder. :(


Salinity in my brackish right now is 1.008, Salinity in my saltwater is 1.026.
 
im not sure which species of flounder that is but i would be concerned about putting him in a marine tank with other small fish. i had a few flounder full saltwater and they ate my firefish, watchman goby, and clownfish. the flounder were barely bigger than yours. the fact of the matter is they are predators and they will eat fish close to their own size in length.
 
I think those are called peacock flounder. They are predators and they get big. I doubt that even the 70 will work longterm, the adult size is like 18". I think it's one of those things where the eggs hatch in an estuary, or river, and then they swim out to sea. But idk how the acclimation would work in a tank.
He's cute!
 
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