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mystery of the vanishing bullhead


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Posted 29 May 2010 - 04:12 AM

A rare event happened today, I saw the third bullhead in my 55 gallon tank. He is the largest of the three but oddly I only see him once every few months. I thought he was hiding in the hollow stump but when i looked for the dead rock bass a couple months back i removed that and he wasn't their.

I watched the big guy from afar today (if i was close he'd be gone in a flash) and he swam to the back by one of the large air bubbler strips, thrashed his body throwing around gravel, and vanished!

Do bullheads burrow into gravel?

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 05:50 AM

A rare event happened today, I saw the third bullhead in my 55 gallon tank. He is the largest of the three but oddly I only see him once every few months. I thought he was hiding in the hollow stump but when i looked for the dead rock bass a couple months back i removed that and he wasn't their.

I watched the big guy from afar today (if i was close he'd be gone in a flash) and he swam to the back by one of the large air bubbler strips, thrashed his body throwing around gravel, and vanished!

Do bullheads burrow into gravel?

mine do!
i have four types of catfish. the stonecats and bullheads hide the best.i can go for weeks at a time and never see them. often i do a head count on major clean up day vac, gravel and remove caves and other tank art/rocks.on side note i often find live red worm on clean up days as well how do they live so long under the gravel? weeks @ a time




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Posted 29 May 2010 - 04:14 PM

mine do!
i have four types of catfish. the stonecats and bullheads hide the best.i can go for weeks at a time and never see them. often i do a head count on major clean up day vac, gravel and remove caves and other tank art/rocks.on side note i often find live red worm on clean up days as well how do they live so long under the gravel? weeks @ a time


I purchased a madtom from Sachs last fall, put it in my tank, and never saw it again for about six months. I was carrying a piece of bog wood out of the tank to a sink to scrub it clean, and out drops the
catfish on the floor. It was hiding in a nook in the wood. It survived the fall and is doing fine several months later.

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 04:59 PM

I've found that putting a small light over your tank and leaving it on 24/7 will let the catfish come out at night and let you see them, it doesn't take long for them to get used to a constant dim light. the main tank lights will drive them back into hiding but they will come out in the dim light like it's night time.

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Posted 07 June 2010 - 05:02 PM

Mine have now outgrown the cover and just swim around whenever I come in the room. It's like they know it's feeding time.



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