Re: NANFA-- Guppies as sculpin food

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:31:58 -0500

I don't know about your sculpins, but the mottled sculpins here tend to come
from hard bottom streams. It's possible they bury themselves, but most of
the ones I've collected have been under rocks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Crail" <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Guppies as sculpin food

> Man I wish they'd do that! They were in a bare sand, 2" bed for two
months
> and never buried. I recently added dark gravel so they'd really show
their
> true colors. They just don't seem interested (or find it necessary) in
> burying.
>
> One of them is privy to perching up in the hornwort and swooping out like
a
> hawk. His coloration up there is cool tho. Looks like a dark cluster of
> algae (no mottling, all dark). Sometimes I even have to look twice :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <psalm119.111_at_juno.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Cc: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 12:40 PM
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Guppies as sculpin food
>
>
> > Michael,
> > Being from Georgia, are you familiar with any good books on Georgia
native
> fishes? Or anyone else for that matter?
> >
> > Alo regarding Sculpins, having a bit of sand may be a good idea. I
> remember yrs ago while fish watching in a tiny woodland brook I noticed in
a
> small pool a pair of eyes protruding from a flat sandy patch. Intrigued I
> sat my lawn chair in the pool and sat and watched. Eventually a small
minnow
> got too close and poof, in a swirl of silt appeared a mouth with a tail
and
> the minnow was no more. The sculpin wiggled side to side and again all
that
> showed were his eyes. This was a very cool brook which contained small
Brook
> Trout which was what I'd come to watch but the sculpin stole the show.

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