The cheapest declorinator going is a bucket.

I agree with all the others that your biggest problem is water quality, and the best "fix" is major water changes while your filters and substrates bacteria grows to handle it.

Do 25% changes a day for now. Use a 5 gallon bucket for the new water, fill ...

Bullhead roll and stir the gravel all the time! It is part of their feeding behavior in nature to stir the substrate with their bodies to stir up foods.

when fishing for them, remember they are bottom feeders, so like all bottom feeders the hook can end up anywhere!

I'm frankly suprised yours are ...

Black and yellow bullhead live in almost all water enviroments from sluggish streams to rapids to large lakes. About the only enviroment in their natural range they are not found in are acid bog lakes in the NE mountian regions.

Keeping one in an aquarium, try to match the water enviroment where ...

I caught them in an oxbow prone creek (actually named Ox Creek btw) that drains the NW Cayuga platue (sp) through the Lysander wetlands, emptying into the Oswego river in northern central NY State.

Bullhead fry, like the fry of so many species, gather in fine leaved vegetation close to the ...

Hi fishlover,
I have some black bullhead myself. I also regularly collect native specimens of everything from plants to fish from local waters for various university studies.

My blacks were caught with a fine meshed aquarium net while still 1/4" fry. At 10 months they now range 6-8" long. There are ...

I'm located in north-central New York State in the USA.

I have 7 bullhead in a 55 gal that were caught 10 months ago as 1mm fry. They are now ~8 to 10" and I agree they are very owner oriented. Mine love earthworms and will feed from my hand. The tickle of their barbels is the coolest thing!

I also have a Pumpkinseed a bit older than the bullhead. I had ...

Hi folks,
My names Tom and I've just joined so thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm a 43 year old retired US Army "green beret" who also dabbles in natural resource studies. One thing that those studies have included is sampling and collection of organisms from various wetland and waterway sources ...