From: "Scottish Fly Fisher"
| On 28 Sep 2005 20:47:35 -0700, "krusty kritter"
| wrote:
|
David H. Lipman wrote:
They are fascinating in a fish tank however. The are nest builders and are *extremely*
territorial. If you have two male sticklebacks in a tank you can draw a line down the
center of the tank. If one crosses that center line, the other may go on attack.
I belieeve thay can survive in; Salt, Brackish and Fresh water but prefer brackish
water.
Charles Dickens referred to sticklebacks obliquely in "The Pickwick
Papers". One of his characters had published a paper on the natural
history of "tittlebats", which was what sticklebacks were called in the
mid-19th century in England.
They are tiny fish and I can't see anyone trying to catch them w/o a net and
becuase of the spiny dorsal fin ( 3 to 12 dorsal spines ), they are lousy bait.
I wanted to catch minnows to feed my Oscars in a stream near Piru Lake...
|
| Just be careful not to introduce infections or pests from the wild
| fish. Having said that, feeder goldfish are hardly free from nasties!
| As much as oscars have character, I'll stick with my angelfish and
| clown loaches.
|
so I told my girl friend to quickly take off her panty hose so I could
make a net. She resisted at first, but I told her I'd buy her a new
pair as soon as we got to a drugstore, so she gave up her pantyhose to
my project.
|
| Now, that's an excuse I'll have to remember. ;-)
Besides the minnows, I caught a few sticklebacks. None of the captured
minnows or sticklebacks lasted very long when the Oscars saw them being
introduced to the aquarium...
|
| I used to catch minnows for live baiting with a wine bottle. Carefully
| knock a hole in the concave base with a hammer and nail, just big
| enough for the minnows to swim through. Pop a few pieces of minced up
| mackerel into the bottle, fill it up with water, cork it and leave it
| in the margins. The minnows swim into the bottle and get trapped.
|
| John
|
http://groups.msn.com/scottishflyfisher
| Responsible anglers catch and release.
| Lose the barbs or lose the fish!
Use Methylene Blue. Place food fish in a small tank with the amount perscribed on the
bottle for the the volume of water in the tank. Let them sit there for at least 24hrs then
introduce them into your fish tank community.
http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/.../5806/cid/1579
http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/shopping.html
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Dave
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