As someone who works in creeks for a living, there are a ton of stickleback in California. Honestly one of the more annoying fish to handle.
Stickleback
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As someone who works in creeks for a living, there are a ton of stickleback in California. Honestly one of the more annoying fish to handle.
Three-spined Stickleback are found all along California in coastal streams and estuary environments. Most are really small and are hard to identify in the water if you don't have experience ID'ing native fish.
thats not what Im hearing in CA on NANFA fb groups theres tons of variety. Whats your method of collecting/catching fish. I catch them almost everywhere in IL WI and MI whenever im dipnetting but not dipnetted in WI and MI for at least 5 years
The Three-spined Stickleback is what we have around my area. They are quite pugnacious. I found Stone Loaches much more amenable. I did have a lovely Stickleback for a long while, but when I tried to add more even larger ones than him were all beaten up. As said above, live food only and keep cool.
The male builds a nest and females are enticed in to lay their eggs. Pretty sure they are not allowed to remain in the area of the nest afterwards however as the male will defend it with his life against anything.
The male builds a nest and females are enticed in to lay their eggs. Pretty sure they are not allowed to remain in the area of the nest afterwards however as the male will defend it with his life against anything.
i had stone loach and also stickleback.Both fishes require cold temperatures.But stone loach is better choice than stickleback.It can cohabitate with other nonagressive coldwater fishes like gudgeons and you dont need live food...
