Creek Tank

[MultispeciesTamer]

Today iam gonna start one of my little projects
Iam going to set up a 10 gal tank with everything from my creek behind my house. Today iam gonna get substrate from it and some water. fill up the tank and get is started filtering. Most likly gonna be putting in all kinds of small fish i can get from it exept chubs.I want Fatheads, red daces, sculpins, shinners and what ever else i get my hands on maybe a mini cray if i can catch one. will post pics soon of the tank all setup , but dont expect an update with fish till summer thats when the daces come out

Tyler

 

[Noto]

All right, should be fun! Be sure not to add too many fish at once! The dace are in the creeks year-round, they just aren't always showing their breeding colors.

Just a word of caution about sculpin- you can expect them to A) eat most of the other fish in the tank, B) die, or C), A then B.

 

[teleost]

Just a word of caution about sculpin- you can expect them to A) eat most of the other fish in the tank, B) die, or C), A then B.

That sums up sculpin at home unless you make a species only tank in a cool basement with good oxygen levels.

I would say that "C" is the most common experience with sculpin.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

I know they are there year round but during summer i can find them in the shallows and net them, during winter they sit in this 9 foot hole thats inpossible to net down in. Yeah no sculpin then

 

[MN_Rebel]

Stay away from sticklebacks, they will nipping other tankmate fins. When i was little kid, I had few 10gal tanks laying around thats hasnt been used for many years then I would filled up with creek/pond water along with Fathead minnows, creek chub, johnny darters, bullheads, sculpins, crayfish, shiners, daces, mudminnows, sticklebacks, baby sunfish/bass, perch, snail, aquatic insects, clams, red rosies, tadpoles, salmander and baby turtles. That was really long time ago probably when I was 11 to 14 years old. Now I have these same 10gal tanks, full of natives and subtropical fishes such as zebra danios and WCMM as well as basslet goodeid and blackfin goodea. I missed the old days with raising bullheads but they were too big and aggressive.

 

[le patron]

All right, should be fun! Be sure not to add too many fish at once! The dace are in the creeks year-round, they just aren't always showing their breeding colors.

Just a word of caution about sculpin- you can expect them to A) eat most of the other fish in the tank, B) die, or C), A then B.

so true

 

[le patron]

Stay away from sticklebacks, they will nipping other tankmate fins. When i was little kid, I had few 10gal tanks laying around thats hasnt been used for many years then I would filled up with creek/pond water along with Fathead minnows, creek chub, johnny darters, bullheads, sculpins, crayfish, shiners, daces, mudminnows, sticklebacks, baby sunfish/bass, perch, snail, aquatic insects, clams, red rosies, tadpoles, salmander and baby turtles. That was really long time ago probably when I was 11 to 14 years old. Now I have these same 10gal tanks, full of natives and subtropical fishes such as zebra danios and WCMM as well as basslet goodeid and blackfin goodea. I missed the old days with raising bullheads but they were too big and aggressive.

lucky, ive been searching everywhere for sticklebacks for my 10g dont they carry tapeworms and such very often though?

 

[MN_Rebel]

Brook stickleback are hard to kill even with tapeworms and so are fourspined sticklebacks. I alway wanted have some three spined sticklebacks in future. Brook and fourspined sticklebacks are much hardy species and they should have no problem with live in 10gal as species only or with other sticklebacks as long as you feed them frozen bloodworms.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

yeah i dont like sicklebacks never seen any im my creek but iam sure there are some in there i ran out of daylight to go finish filling it up so pics probly tomorrow. While rinsing the gravel i noticed a bunh of little hellgramitts( however you spell it) i put them in the tank we'll see how they do. Iam not positive on there ID but thats what they looked like to me

 

[sandtiger]

yeah i dont like sicklebacks never seen any im my creek but iam sure there are some in there i ran out of daylight to go finish filling it up so pics probly tomorrow. While rinsing the gravel i noticed a bunh of little hellgramitts( however you spell it) i put them in the tank we'll see how they do. Iam not positive on there ID but thats what they looked like to me

Hellgrammites will eventually become these...

Male

SOURCE: http://www.sfu.ca


Female

SOURCE: http://lamar.colostate.edu