Prickly Sculpins mating?

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Belltrain

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Hello, My prickly sculpins have become a pair and move everywere together and stay around eachother. They have recently been spending more time behind my drift wood. The female spends the most time there. This morning I awoke to my male digging out gravel behind the wood. They going to mate?? If they do I will be very stoked :headbang2::dance2::eek:mg:
 

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It's possible. Kind of the wrong time of the year, but some cool water changes could mimic spring conditions.

What do you have them in?
 

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They live in my sub-tropical 55gallon aquarium that stays around 72-73. They avoided eachother until now which leads me to believe they are forming a pair.
 

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Interesting. I saw juvies at the estuaries when I lived up the coast from you, never saw live adults.
 

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I have a large sculpin around 4 inches who I belive is a male because of jaw structure. And I have a smaller sculpin around 2 1/4 inches who has a different jaw structure. They both came out of the same creek, and I am almost 100% certain are the same species
 

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I have a large sculpin around 4 inches who I belive is a male because of jaw structure. And I have a smaller sculpin around 2 1/4 inches who has a different jaw structure. They both came out of the same creek, and I am almost 100% certain are the same species
those seem a bit small to mate, they dont mature till after 4 inches, the male should be closer to 6-8..but its possible.what colors are the male displaying?
 

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another thing, females and males have mostly the same jaw structure...males will be larger with a longer thinner body, females will be shorter and wider...i believe if you look threw my thread, you can compare your female to mine. who is 4 1/2 inches,

when its time to mate the females will blow up..and look like they swallowed a ping pong ball.

Mine digs pits all the time to lay in as well^_^. good luck and pics pics pics!!!!

how long have you had them? and what sort of water movement do you have?
 
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