Prickly Sculpin Tank

[Kaosu]

ok so i think im settled with how the tank looks for now....its hard to get good shots of the depth in the wood but i tried.
What yeah guys think? my sculpin love it and are very active all over the tank threw out the day! even Angry Fish!!!!(the large female)


and a few shots of Angry Fish and the others!


lol this is her feed me face....

 

[Kaosu]

more update shots^_^.

 

[Kaosu]

first post was Angery fish..shes about 6 inches now(prickly sculpin)

This is Scot..(if you watch south park.look up the Canadian Christmas one...youll understand his name)

Scot is a stealthy hunter...........lol Scot is a 3 inch prickly sculpin
here are a few random shots of the others in the tank .the two mottled have been driven in to hiding by Scot...
but the smaller prickly is still out and about.

 

[Kaosu]

so...have not updated these guys in a while.

Tank;

...Scott went to a new home...he was the larger of the 3 small sculpin i had. he was a Prickly and MEAN....hens the name Scott..anywhere here are his last pics. He was rehomed for being to mean..and not allowing the smaller fish to eat.
Tribute to Scott;



One of the Mottled sculpin were eaten by Angry fish when Scott was chasing him around, two remain, one Prickly and one Mottled, both are still shy from Scott's anger but they are slowly coming out more(and pigging out now that they can get to food....pics to come).

i added 2 nirate snails to the tank..they seem to be doing a great job at cleaning up im thinking of 4-5 more.


And last but not least my mini beast^_^ Angry fish AKA Shelob

 

[SickBum]

yup she does!!
these are survivors of about 30 i dropped in the tank as food this summer...4 have survived though im expecting one or two of them to make it to grow out..they have small places to hide and get out of the way of the all seeing mouth of the tank. Im upgrading there tank to a 55...soon ish maybe another 6 months or so..so if any one if alive them then they win!!!(if not off to collect again im hoping for a few females and a male to try my hand at breeding them)

and nope..all soft and squishy ..prickly is just what they are called, these guys don't even have scales.
and here is another pic!

It soubds cruel but this is a good way to find good breeding stock. People pamper fry then ship off the results to others and then tons of them die off.

 

[Kaosu]

^_^ I go for the strongest/smartest survive...the the only way to get that is to let nature take its curse. I don't wan genetically weak fish ...so i let nature do the work. >.> down to 2 juveniles.

 

[stoneyredneck]

cool fish.

 

[Kaosu]

thank you^_^

 

[Kaosu]

Update with out pics
I think my camera is dieing!!!

anyway,

I have two HOB filters running on this tank,
i started with on Marineland 50, with 200 gph
and..an unknown old filter rated for a 20 gallon tank
I ran across great sale for a Penn-Plax Cascade 300 for 35$ rated for 100 gallons

so now i have the Cascade 300, at 100 gallons of filtration @ 300gph
and the Marineland bio wheel rated for 50 gallons @ 200gph

lol so my filtration for my 20 gallon high is 150 gallons at 500 gph
..i think i have enough filtration.
the filters are located on the sides of the tank as well it gives allot of nice movement with out making whirlpools.

The tank is under stocked...with the one large sculpin about 6 inches and shes almost full grown, the two smaller sculpin around 3 inches, and an assortment of feeders at any given time.

in two weeks i might be adding two purple spotted gudgeon, witch will call for another rescaping.
Not sure about the gudgeon with the cooler temps in the tank though, it ranged from about 67-74o

..so maybe a video is about due ^_^.

 

[happypoet]

This is definitely one of the tanks on AC I'd most like to have.