Any sculpin keepers?

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I used to (still do) work at a nature center at my local beach an we would have sculpin all the time in our tanks, they were pretty easy to take care of our water was really clear because we had our lines and pipes attached to a saltwater well but as for their diet frozen shrimp and silver side sufficed and they were pretty happy :)
 
I've had them, they do seem to be temperature sensitive, I was lucky enough to get some that were not only from a naturally smaller population (about 3" as adults) it was also a warmer than usual drainage. they lived for several months in the low 70's but an eel i had forgotten was in the tank ate them. I hate eels, lol. I fed the sculpins daphnia magna and black worms. They did quite well but slowly disappeared over time due to the large eel that was hiding in the gravel, he started out as a tiny 2" larval eel. i thought he had died but he appeared when I took the tank down to investigate the disappearance of all the fish i had been putting in the tank. I thought maybe they were dying from contamination of some kind and rotting under racks or something but the now 18" inch eel was eating them!
 
I have a long horned sculpin. I wanted a sea robin, but I got a sculpin instead. Some days you just take what is in your traps and be happy.

If I ever do get a sea robin, that sculpin is going to need a new home.
 
id love to see some pics of the sculpin
 
tomorrow ill post some. check back then!
 
Here is a few of my sculpin. He is hard to photograph. Rare that he comes out. Had to move everything around to get him out. Thats why the tank looks like it does. He currently lives in a 10g with natives plants, a native cray and the dace i just got. tank is approx 58 degrees winter and 66 degrees summer.
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Awesome! When I was on Kodiak island (Alaska), one of our fishing jetty's had a really shallow rocky shoreline, and there were a lot of isolated pools when the tide went out. I probably spent 2-3 hours just watching the little (saltwater) sculpins hop around in the pools, fighting over the best piece of rock to hide next to, our plant to hide under. Very cool fish.
 
they are awesome fish!
 
yep, considerding he just passed away. but he was max size. temp swing and a change in stocking i believe is the cause. :(
as soon as streams go down, i searching for another
 
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