Sculpin tank

Kaosu

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these are awesome fish! with tons of personality, the large female knows what her food dish looks like and will dance if she sees it^_^

Tank: 22 gallon (soon to be upgraded to a 35 gallon)
Filtration: 1-45 gallon HOB, 1-25 gallon hob, 1-55 gallon air pump and large disk
these fish need high DO,
they grow to 6-8 inches..males being on the larger size females smaller.

logs were collected by me locally, Plants are 3 large anubis, 1 large clump of java moss, and new clump of pennywort

Inhabitants: 1- 4 1/2 inch Prickly sculpin,
2 -1 1/2 to 1 1/4 inch prickly sculpin
2 - 1 1/2 to 2 inch mottled sculpin
never ending supply of guppies i breed my self, and a hand full of red ramshorn snails

these are cold water fish and cooled by a window fan perched atop my lights, i keep the tank below 70o
they also change colors allot!
..its hard to get a still shots, of the smaller ones atm
They eat everything!! anything i drop in the tank
: night crawlers, guppies, scuds,chopped shrimp/prawn, chunks of any fish i have in the fridge, frozen blood worms, frozen krill, frozen silver sides, various pellets...there are more ..but i cant think of them ATM lol...anyway here are some pics!!!
Tank:
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'AngryFish'.. prickly sculpin..recently got pics so you can see why she is called prickly as well ^_^
the little goose bump looking things...are why she is 'prickly' this was the first time i had seen it..
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ok....first baby prickly
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2nd prickly
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1st mottled
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2nd mottled

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Kaosu

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endangered cichlids said:
thoughs r cool looking ,,, kinda camoed in ur background and rocks ..
yeah i like the natural look...trying to recreate there habitat as much as possible, ^_^ brings out the best in them.
 

Kaosu

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Billiethekid said:
whered u get these guys??
well these sculpin are extremely common in the US in fast flowing streams and rocky lake shores ...they are very rarely up for sale on aquabid.

these were given to me by a family member, who brought them home while catching crayfish..didn't know what they were and threw them in there fish tank, after eating most of there fish...they asked if i wanted them.
 

Kaosu

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..love shots where it shows her looking around...they have a bone in the back of there neck most fish lack that allows them to look around and up with there head..she was waiting for her dinner so i taped the top to look up.^_^...and some shots of her eating
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..startled her, when she moved she had a rock on her head....and shes such a fatty now!! she looks like a whale
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she is sooo fast when striking its hard to get a shot....especially with my cheap camera like mine
Her mouth is bigger than her body when she fully opens it
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while uploading pics i was looking threw old pages...and boy had she grown! i found pics from when she was in her 10 gallon....
then
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now
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as well as some amazing tank progression
first set up and scaping (time stamp was off,,,,that would be 2010)
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^_^yesterday
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enjoy!
 

Kaosu

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thank you..just picked up a new tank and am setting it up for her....from 20 gallon to 40. (in progress)
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Kaosu

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TRD_Power said:
Love the tank! What are those thick, green leafed plants attached to the logs?

^_^ thank you, ill get new pics up as i start swapping things over, those are anubis plants some of the leafs are huge
 

Kaosu

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update on the 40 gallon...plants and garnet as well as some of the logs from the other tank going in soon.

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Kaosu

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^_^np they are easy to get a hold of hope you find some..

they grow slow and the ones you see in my tank have gotten that big over a few years.
 

Kaosu

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Update on the tank!!
3 of the 4 young suclpin are now in the 40gl.
started breaking down the 20 gallon and moving plants and logs over,
added the black background (peace of cloth tacked to the wall)
my camera makes it look cloudy....*sigh* its not..just a crappy camera its acutely crystal clear.
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