Brackish Seahorse?

[Balloons&killies]

Google Gasterosteus aculeatus. Females are metallic green, as are males outside of breeding. During the breeding season (in my experience, from January to June, when kept indoors) the males acquire red bellies and bright blue eyes. They're extremely attractive fish, and a revelation to anyone who things colourful fish only come from the tropics.

Cheers, Neale

Could you put a pic of a stickleback???

So nmonks are they frshwater?

 

[nmonks]

I do have a name, please use it. I really don't like being called "nmonks".

Gasterosteus aculeatus is a freshwater, brackish water, or marine fish depending on where it is caught. There are multiple subspecies and "races", so it's important to collect freshwater ones from a local pond or stream if you want to keep them in freshwater conditions.

Cheers, Neale

So nmonks are they frshwater?

 

[Balloons&killies]

I do have a name, please use it. I really don't like being called "nmonks".

Gasterosteus aculeatus is a freshwater, brackish water, or marine fish depending on where it is caught. There are multiple subspecies and "races", so it's important to collect freshwater ones from a local pond or stream if you want to keep them in freshwater conditions.

Cheers, Neale

So nmonks are they frshwater?

Sorry neale.

So how much do you think they would be for a trio?
They pretty colorful

 

[nmonks]

They're "no much". You have to catch your own. Dead easy. These are the classic "tiddlers" in any pond or stream. Part of the fun is getting your own. I've also seen them in aquarium shops in with the live river shrimp, but beware, these are the brackish/marine ones, not the freshwater ones.

Yes, they're extremely colourful. I kept a tank of these for about a year, and they spawned quite readily, though the eggs were eaten by the other ones in the tank. Definitely good fun, and easy to keep on wet-frozen bloodworms, brine shrimps, etc.

Cheers, Neale

So how much do you think they would be for a trio?
They pretty colorful

 

[Balloons&killies]

So where are they found around the world?
Do they care for there fry?

 

[~T~]

Sticklebacks are great. I kept a lovely red bellied male in a basin in my back garden as a kid (ok not the best setup but I was only about 6) and fed it on small earwigs that I caught in my shed which it ate with gusto. Had him nearly a year before I released him. They are found all over the world as far as I know, if you live in the UK then they are found in almost all lakes/ponds/rivers/streams. Males look after their eggs and fry much like a cichlid and even go the extra mile by constructing a nest made from bits of plant.

 

[Balloons&killies]

Sticklebacks are great. I kept a lovely red bellied male in a basin in my back garden as a kid (ok not the best setup but I was only about 6) and fed it on small earwigs that I caught in my shed which it ate with gusto. Had him nearly a year before I released him. They are found all over the world as far as I know, if you live in the UK then they are found in almost all lakes/ponds/rivers/streams. Males look after their eggs and fry much like a cichlid and even go the extra mile by constructing a nest made from bits of plant.

Oh thats cool !

but i dont live in the uk.
Would they be able to go with cichlids?

 

[~T~]

Sticklebacks are great. I kept a lovely red bellied male in a basin in my back garden as a kid (ok not the best setup but I was only about 6) and fed it on small earwigs that I caught in my shed which it ate with gusto. Had him nearly a year before I released him. They are found all over the world as far as I know, if you live in the UK then they are found in almost all lakes/ponds/rivers/streams. Males look after their eggs and fry much like a cichlid and even go the extra mile by constructing a nest made from bits of plant.

Oh thats cool !

but i dont live in the uk.
Would they be able to go with cichlids?

No they are coldwater.