Anyone have any experience with keeping the cold water sculpins with a chiller set-up? I had an opportunity to snorkel in Yellowstone a couple summers ago and got to watch these guys in the stream. Pretty awesome fish to watch, so I've been dreaming of trying to do some sort of coldwater set-up. Curious if anyone here has tried that.
Cold Water Sculpins
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, May 12 2014 01:45 PM
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Posted 12 May 2014 - 02:19 PM
A few links from the NANFA web page that may help you out... one of which talks about a potential western species that might not require the chiller...
http://www.nanfa.org...s/goodbad.shtml
http://www.nanfa.org...creticula.shtml
http://www.nanfa.org...edsculpin.shtml
http://www.nanfa.org...s/goodbad.shtml
http://www.nanfa.org...creticula.shtml
http://www.nanfa.org...edsculpin.shtml
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Posted 12 May 2014 - 02:22 PM
I've kept a species from Virginia, it was a warm water species, rather small, it was an awesome fish, I look forward to hearing about your fishes. With a chiller you could also keep some brook trout, way cool to set up a cold water bio tank.
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Posted 12 May 2014 - 06:06 PM
Dear Wyoming Renegade,
As we are going to be in the Teton / Yellowstone area this July, do you have any suggestions about good convenient places to take a dip? I was kind of wondering how park personnel might respond to people snorkling in the streams there.
As we are going to be in the Teton / Yellowstone area this July, do you have any suggestions about good convenient places to take a dip? I was kind of wondering how park personnel might respond to people snorkling in the streams there.
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Posted 12 May 2014 - 06:19 PM
Dear Wyoming Renegade,
As we are going to be in the Teton / Yellowstone area this July, do you have any suggestions about good convenient places to take a dip? I was kind of wondering how park personnel might respond to people snorkling in the streams there.
I would do some checking on local regs once you get to the park. I think we snorkeled in the Gibbons river; if you look at a map, you will notice that once you come in the west entrance, if you turn north, you are actually outside the park for a fair distance, then drop back in. I believe we were in that area once you dropped back in, but I will have to double-check that to be sure. People often wade in the Firehole, so I doubt it would be an issue there and there are a couple places that people soak in the water because of the hot springs - I really don't think it is an issue, but better to check for sure. The best thing would be to simply ask as you go in the gate about where it is or isn't permitted. Since fishing is permitted in the park (catch and release only I believe), snorkeling shouldn't be an issue. In the Tetons, the Snake River should pretty much be free range. If you want an eyeful of what individuals releasing tropical fish can do to native habitat/species, I would suggest that you check out Kendall Hot Springs; just north of Jackson near Kendall, Wyoming; Jackson natives have been going there to soak for a lot of years and some got bored and decided to add their tropicals to swaters of the hot springs; http://www.fws.gov/m...view_Oct 07.pdf
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