sculpings

[Erik]

a very neat fish fun to keep any questions post them here

 

[420Loach]

uh...ok...what is a sculping? ive never heard of them.

 

[FroggyFox]

I'll second that. Do you have pictures or links or anything about them?

 

[ScubaSteve]

I think sculpins are a North America fish similar to a goby... Not sure though...

 

[420Loach]

for some reason im imagining a fish with alot of spines hehe.

edit:hmmm did a google search, the first match i got with sculpings was this post on MFT...and the rest was something to do with slate rock.

 

[trouthead]

I got my dictionary out:-

sculpin: Any of various mainly spiny fishes with little or no commercial value, now spec. of the family Cottidae; any of various fishes of related acanthopterygian families esp. the Arctic family Icelidae.

 

[ashleigh]

cottidae is part of the goby family right? isn't the european bullhead cottus gobio? I can't finds my book with that fish in it right now- where did you get this fish Erik?

 

[1979camaro]

baensch says they are generally bottom oriented predators from cold waters and the oceans...many have painful, poisonous spines...baensch says they are generally not good aquarium species so im curious about this mystery post...it would have been nice, erik, if you told us a bit about your experiences rather than just posting it like this...

 

[1979camaro]

and, ashleigh, you would appear correct about the european goby...also sometimes called "Miller's thumb"

neat looking fish all around, but like many of the SW gobies they appear unsuited for tropical tanks

 

[catfishmike]

sculpins are neat fish.my fave is the woolly brown sculpin.a tidepool fish native to the coasts of california.i've always had a dream of building a huge outdoor tidepool just to keep them.other that the wooly brown,i don't know too much more about that family of fish.i'll quit babbling now

 

[1979camaro]

catfishmike:

i too have had dreams of recreating a non-tropical pacific coast tidepool

but, the commercial availablity of stock is virtually non-existent and the information on the subject is limited...you would be a pioneer of sorts...

not to mention, i think setting up the necessary equipment to replicate the tidal flow and the temperature ranges would be quite the project ($$ and time). All that said, it is still something I would like to do some day. One thing for sure, those tidepool critters are a lot hardier than reef critters....the temperature and water quality fluctations in a tide pool are quite dramatic, unlike the notoriously stable reef environment

 

[Erik]

um a flood of quetions and there a goby like fish i got mine frome the spokane river