Prickly sculpin!

[Kaosu]

Sculpins ROCK! I have Mottled sculpins.

YAY!! more sculpin keeper!!! got any pics?

very nice! water seems like its prob a bit warm but very nice anyways. sculpin seem to be doin well. i need to get more. such an agro fish. so cool.

the tank stays at about 60-65 with the fan on top...thats in a room with a space heater set at 75-80, they have been in these temps sens the day i got them (almost 2 years for the large one now)
these were collected from a lake in the height of summer where the shores in witch i collected them from had water temps in the 85 and up range.
i had no luck what so ever with sculpin collected from streams where the water was much colder all year round^_^

the main female has grown from about 1/4 inch to 6 inches in about a year.

 

[Mr.Catfish]

Here's one

 

[Kaosu]

awesome! what does he eat and its tank mates?
he looks allot different than my mottleds but they are still young. and of course from different areas

 

[Mr.Catfish]

It eats minnows,and frozen bloodworms. It's tank mates are 2 longear sunfish,2 black crappie,white sucker,yellow bullhead,2 carp and 2 grass pickerel.The are in a 150.The grass pickerel never notice him with his perfect camo. I also have two young ones in a 55 with darters.They look more like yours.

 

[Kaosu]

It eats minnows,and frozen bloodworms. It's tank mates are 2 longear sunfish,2 black crappie,white sucker,yellow bullhead,2 carp and 2 grass pickerel.The are in a 150.The grass pickerel never notice him with his perfect camo. I also have two young ones in a 55 with darters.They look more like yours.

^_^ yay! i have yet to find any tank mates mine do not kill...mostly for a 40 gallon but i think im finely settled with having a species only tank.

I tried a few things.. tired a Paradise fish...and well she beat it to death trying to eat it, so i figured i need larger tank mates or none, ..none it its! other than the sculpin ^_^

mine all eat anything i drop in the tank, mostly bloodworms ,glass worms, krill and guppies i breed for them ...convict will be on the menu next ^_^
i also have them eating sinking nightcrawler sticks, as well as real nightcrawlers, shrimp ,chucks of fish, prawns, scallops ...glass shrimp.
lol anything really the list gos on, iv tried crickets but they don't like to take things off the surface.

how long have you had yours?.
did you collect them your self? if so in a lake or stream?
how big are they.


Sorry for all the questions it just i never see anyone with them and want to know as much as i can from other peoples experiences.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

60?? i thought guppies where in there? i have never had luck with guppies at those temps.

those a perfect for sculpin!! I kept mine at 68 summer and 55 or so in the winter. Unfortunatly a crayfish that is was supposed to eat turned on it.

 

[Mr.Catfish]

I collected them myself from a coldwater stream back in August last year. My big ones is about 3.5 inches.The smaller two are about 1.5 inches.

Oh yeah,mine have also ate nightcrawlers.

I love how they change their patterns and color according to whatever substrate they are on.

 

[Kaosu]

60?? i thought guppies where in there? i have never had luck with guppies at those temps.

those a perfect for sculpin!! I kept mine at 68 summer and 55 or so in the winter. Unfortunatly a crayfish that is was supposed to eat turned on it.

yup guppies are in there....but only for food they do just fine for the week max they are in there ^_^.

and sad about the cray turning on it i feed mine some in the summer but they are only about 1/4.

I collected them myself from a coldwater stream back in August last year. My big ones is about 3.5 inches.The smaller two are about 1.5 inches.

Oh yeah,mine have also ate nightcrawlers.

I love how they change their patterns and color according to whatever substrate they are on.

neat what temp do you keep your tank at?.

and yes! they change color so much.
this is all of the same fish, This is one of the small mottleds at about 1 1/4 inch..they all change allot but not as much as this one seems to.

 

[Mr.Catfish]

In the winter my tanks are around 55 degrees. In the summer I try to keep them at 70 but sometimes they get up around 75 to 78 but only for a day or two.

 

[kzimmerman]

May I recommend a tank of the month submission? Your tanks look awesome! I just recently turned up a location for collecting some sculpins, when I get some tank space I'll probably try them out. Not sure what species, I did not have a net handy and i could not catch the speedy little buggers by hand. Interesting is that i did manage to get a few darters. Go figure.