I have 2 brook stickelback of the 5 spined variety. One is "large" at about 1.75" with dark spots the other is maybe 1.25 and without spots. Any chance I may have caught a male and female? BTW they were caught in crayfish/minnow traps on the Platte River.
Any info on "brook stickelback" (5 spines)?
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'Try' and spawn them. This may produce 2 females, 2 males or a pair. I hear they are hard to sex?
if these are the 1s iam thinking of is that the females have a red chest while the males have a bluey-blacky colour
Actually, the males would have the red belly I believe, which fires up when there is aggression with another male or fish.
i dont no if that is true not sure i asways thought it was the other way around, they are easy to catch when i was younger we used to shoot a bb gun pellet in the water(need bright colour bb) and 20-50 would attack it and then just swipe them up. i let some in my uncles pond with monster koi and they have been doing well the is about 100 there now and tehy breed easy they need a hole and leafs, a good way is to get the bricks with 3 holes in smooth it down abit and stuff acouple of leaf in or make caves out of slate they can kill other males if in a small tank but generally not that bad
the ones iam talking back are the 3spine sticklebacks, and i stand corrected the males have a red thoat when breeding sorry, iam going fishing this weekend might bring some home