Tide pool sculpin having lunch

Sculpin eating frozen mysid shrimp. They really go after them!

Sculpin embryos

First clutch of embryos. The yolks are a very beautiful shade of purple. The embryos were removed placed into their own tank within a glass dish. The dish was placed in the flow of water for aeration.

Tidepool sculpin

These tidepool sculpin were collected near Coosbay, Oregon and added to the system on 2/14/11. There appears to be 3 large females and many males. The females were split into two tanks along with the males. We hope to get embryos for juvenile studies.

Old stickleback-oikoplura filter resurrected to grow sculpin

A little plumbing and addition of a pump and this old system is running again. The balls (already in place) in the sump are meant as a baffle to cut down on the salty aerosols.