The 3 Spined Stickleback is Changing Our Views On Evolution. +A Great ColdWater Aquarium Species Too

[@BentleyPascoe]

Liking this edited video featuring a cool little local fish - nice work buddy!

[@josemontalvo4532]

Interesting vid. I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing!

[@TheeExecrationist]

According to Wikipedia sticklebacks are related to pipe fish and seahorses. I did not know this, but it sort of explains how they swim.

[@Fishtory]

good point! they care for their young like seahorses also... so that's interesting

[@brittanyh2628]

As a kid I used to catch sticklebacks all the time. I live in a small city in BC that's north of Vancouver. I never thought of them as aquarium fish until a few months ago when I was doing research on different native fish species. Now I wanna go and set up a tank for them! Thanks for the video! :)

[@Fishtory]

yeah I love them...they are dare I say...more interesting behaviorally than many cichlids...I watched them out at priest lake Vancouver Island, and then watched them for hours at Harrison Hotsprings...the blue gills and sticklebacks were a different look totally in the hotsprings vs 30 feet away in the lake...I made some videos on it back in july

[@brittanyh2628]

@@Fishtory that's really incredible! I hope I can see that myself one day!

[@vampgaia]

Interesting fish. Evolution is amazing.

[@learningtolivewithhumans1859]

I HAVE IN MY TANK THEY ARE VERY CLEVER AND STUNNING LITTLE FISH

[@Fishtory]

Super cool!

[@jamieouthere]

As a child I would go to the local park in the N. England, and catch them with a net and take home in a jam jar, I recall the males having a green top and and the brightest red. even at 7, I knew the boys made the nest and protected it, like the guy in the video I had a tank with a few in it and I saw all the spawning. A very beautiful fish., I never knew about all the variants, thanks a great vid Alex.

[@footfault1941]

A nice job done! Could be improved here & there, but the contents are excellent! Well done!

[@Fishtory]

Its always been a fish i see locally, however I researched it for a week or so and gave it my best attempt heh.

[@BUSHCRAPPING]

iv got a 3spined stickie tank. brilliant aquarium fish. they are super interesting, very active, very active in all the water column, happily feed on flakes, become very tame quickly, they have personalities, rarely hide, very variable body and scales, beautiful winter and mating colours. they will also eat almost anything and become very aggressive with food. very interesting i was looking for a native micro species to keep and im so glad i picked the stickleback. i got mine from a pond but accientally ordered a filter that is a little big and the outflow is pretty powerful but they LOVE swimming in the current. thats their go to place in the tank.

[@Fishtory]

That's awesome! I really love watch them in the wild. How warm do you keep their water? And do you have videos posted at all?

[@BUSHCRAPPING]

@@Fishtory i just keep the water at normal room temp, no heater or chiller. i wanna get the tank planted first before posting. only just getting into the aquarium hobby but already got ideas for two more tanks lol

[@wtfmrb293]

Thinking about going to a lake a get me some sticklebacks when the ice is gone. No heater needed I guess lol

[@shesellsfish]

Fascinating. Wonder what makes this particular species able to adapt to evolution so well.

[@64simon]

Careful with those spines in tents !! Lol

[@64simon]

Living in Dublin Ireland i a local stream always ha d sticklebacks returning every may or June for the last 50 years I remember This is the first year they never returned hoping they are just late If they dont the whole eco system could be disrupted they need to be treasured heres hoping they show up

[@airplanegeorge]

always wanted to keep sticklebacks, never could find them. I live in S.C. House is usually in the upper 70s. would that be too warm?

[@Fishtory]

No that should be okay. They may spawn year round. But it should be okay with any east coast stickelbacks... either the 3 or 9 spine are my recommendations for personality

[@204_mod_shop]

What's your thoughts on quaranting these sticklebacks in 80° plus water? Putting them with some store bought fish

[@Fishtory]

I think they can handle it for a while, however to really be healthy they like 60-70 ideally. But i think it's do-able and worth trying

[@Shaden0040]

Slat and fresh water tolerant fish are called euryhaline fish. Some puffers, live bearers, salmon, bull shark, some rays, and chad, can move between ocean salt environment and fresh water environments. They can do this because of branchial osmoregulation.

[@Fishtory]

yeah the stickleback is different, in that within 3 generations it cant tollerate salt water oddly...but the saltwater ones can happily go into fresh and back

[@Shaden0040]

Looks like there s an east coast varient. Can you do a spotlight on them as well?

[@Fishtory]

sure... and actually, every stickleback population is unique within 30 years of isolation... they're so fast at speciating that science is having a big debate over where to draw species lines...sort of like domestic dogs..they can look so many ways... Vancouver Canada has lakes with native fish from the sea originally that turned out completely different within 5 miles of one another

[@crittersofearth9914]

Punkin seed fish is a fresh water cichlid, Sticklebacks are actually related to sea horses and pipe fish, The males are cool just like little cichlids with their behaviour when they nest

[@Fishtory]

Ahhhh makes sense!

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

sunfish to cichlids - hey can i copy your homework cichlids - sure just change it up a little sunfish -

[@debrapage582]

I brought my sticklebacks indoors to over winter them along with about 20 babies. Within a day the five adults had eaten them all. Any idea why?

[@jakethesnakelover]

I read online today that they’re carnivorous - they eat small fry, other’s eggs, small crustaceans, snails.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

would love to keep them in an aquarium. i find them quite often in various small bodies of water

[@elidamico510]

Im doing a project on lake washington pollution and ended up here. I need top know more!

[@Fishtory]

Sure. [e-mail] is my email :)

[@dianejackson6952]

Are these something you have to go catch yourself if you want to keep them?

[@Fishtory]

unfortunately, yes...but they are easy to catch...and only withstand about 74 degree water max

[@dianejackson6952]

@@Fishtory sounds like a good fish for my kitchen ❄

[@UpperAquatics]

For the algorithm!

[@Fishtory]

Hail grand Algorithm!

[@Coastalfishes]

The Lake Washington stickleback have higher spikes because during that period of time, smallmouth bass had been introduced and their population started to rise. They are much larger and ferocious predators compared to the native northern pikeminnow and coastal cutthroat trout.

[@jkaquatics4284]

Hey don't judge your editing skills I don't even know how to edit lol

[@callusklaus2413]

Something you may consider looking into is an episode of Radiolab on the subject of evolutionary radiation. A highly interesting effect, where genes can "jump" between organisms and individuals. We as placental mammals owe this trait to a viral infection during the early times of mammals, just before we split off from marsupials.

[@Fishtory]

thanks, I love radio lab already, so I'll have to check it out!