View Full Version : Largemouth worth keeping?
jonahonah
11-14-2006, 9:35 AM
Are largemouth bass worth keeping in an aquarium or not? Let know if you have one and your opinion thanks
AquataHolic420
11-14-2006, 9:42 AM
dont got one, but hell yea there worth keeping, therre MONSTERS!:eek:
jonahonah
11-14-2006, 9:45 AM
What size tank do you suggest if i start with a juvie and grow it up slowly and how fast do they grow?
CichlidAddict
11-14-2006, 10:31 AM
They don't grow slowly - they grow Fast!
And they'll eat like you wouldn't believe.
You could start with a 55 but it will outgrow that pretty quickly. Personally, I'd start with at least a 75 and plan on upgrading to a 125 in a year.
I heard they will eat you out of house and home. So be prepared to stock up on food.
fishingaddict
11-14-2006, 11:32 AM
believe it or not my largemouth bass ( i think its a largemouth) eats pellets and feeders but wont touch market shrimp.
kakojones
11-14-2006, 12:44 PM
Get a breeding pair of convicts going, and some platies, and some mollies, and whatever else you can breed really easily.
They eat tons man, get some good filtration and a big ole' tank. Think oscar that actually moves a lot.
AquataHolic420
11-14-2006, 1:00 PM
DO IT!!! get the BASS that would be awesome!! and for feeding it, just think of when you go fishing... throw in some shiners, worms, pellets, w/e... Get a big shiner tank goin to feed this beast!
gomezladdams
11-14-2006, 1:28 PM
What makes a fish "worth" keeping?
If you like it its worth keeping.
Oddball
11-14-2006, 2:07 PM
If it wasn't for the need for water, this brute would be my watchdog.
AquataHolic420
11-14-2006, 2:09 PM
what makes a fish worth it is that u make sure u can successfully handle the fish's requirements... and wow i wanna go fishin in your tank!!! i cant wait to go icefishin this season!
I love mine, I have to buy him a new tank soon, though, and then I won't love him so much. LOL
milkman407
11-14-2006, 6:10 PM
Hes like a freaking pupy, i like them.
Chad55
11-14-2006, 9:59 PM
I LOVE my bass. He is the coolest fish I own. He has such a personality and I can actually just sit there and watch him all day and just laugh at him. The only downfall to this is they get BIG! I would say atleast a 180 for them. You could probably keep other fish with it in a 180 if it doesnt eat them but atleast a 180 for the simple fact that they get atleast 24".
Chad
Pfisherman
11-14-2006, 10:15 PM
believe it or not my largemouth bass ( i think its a largemouth) eats pellets and feeders but wont touch market shrimp.
If its a large mouth its lower jaw will extend past its eye, if not its a smb.
Quinn
Chad55
11-14-2006, 10:27 PM
Largemouth generally have darker colors then SM also. Not ALWAYS but generally.
Chad
chenaus
11-15-2006, 8:42 AM
I caught a baby with a cast net and there great, much more interesting then my peacock.
Horiyoshi III
11-15-2006, 10:30 AM
Wow,your LMB is more fun than your peacock!!!!!!!Boy do people have different tastes!! I had a LMB for a little while,then i fell in love with Pike Cichlids and the Bass is gone,but i live near a pond where they must stock 'em because theres so many juvi's.
GooDyboy420
11-15-2006, 10:48 AM
any type of american fresh water si a great fish.
When you go food shopping you will need a second cart just for it. Had to feed mines market fish and shrimp ate more than the family dam dog catch them year round in my backyard and thats were they will stay.
jonahonah
11-16-2006, 1:11 PM
I take it from your replies that they grow big and i dont have the space for one as yet so change of tact for you. What are perch like to keep and what is the best ways to get them to colour up, dark substrate or light or are there other factors involved with their colour
sandtiger
11-16-2006, 9:18 PM
If its a large mouth its lower jaw will extend past its eye, if not its a smb.
Quinn
Largemouths and smallmouths aren't the only "basses" out there.
LMB are great fish to keep, especially if you can get them on pellets. They do grow fast and they grow big. Mine was at most an inch in July but it's now 5". You will ultimatly need a multi-hundred gallon tank for one, at least 6' long. IMO a great alternative would be a green sunfish. They look similer and act pretty much the same. They stay much smaller and will normally take pellets.
RadleyMiller
11-16-2006, 11:09 PM
If it wasn't for the need for water, this brute would be my watchdog.
That brute could eat my watch dog! I have a Jack Russell, which are like the dog version of the figure 8 puffer. Little and agressive and love to pick on bigger fish.
Definatly get the LMB, they are really cool.
Bizzaro
11-17-2006, 12:41 AM
Mine likes tv, he sits still and whaches it for some time. Its funny. Get one. I have one but I need a new tank His in a 10 right now and as soon as my pond is up his going into a 60 and hopefull in a month ill get a 30" wide tank for him. :) oh and aslong as the tank is 30+ inch you will be fine.
Rick Blaine
12-02-2006, 8:34 PM
I have a Large Mouth Bass that I caught in a nearby river, in August. He was about six inches, now he's more than double that in length. This is him about two months ago, with a goldfish in his mouth.
http://www.topgunproducers.com/images/fish.jpg
I suspect that he's about a pound now. I've been keeping him in a 29 gallon, but he's outgrown it. I just ordered a 125 gallon for his new home, but I suspect he'll eventually outgrow that.
Just to keep the water clear requires almost daily water changes (2-5 gallons). He'll eat a dozen large feeder goldfish in several days. I used to have about 15 assorted green sunfish and pumpkinseed. The largest two are all that are left. The last one he ate was so big that the tail hung out his mouth for two full days while he digested the head. I wish I had taken a picture of that.
He was skittish at first, but now he's real sociable. He'll come up to the front and look at me for as long as I sit there, and if I walk in the room with a white bag from the local fish store, he knows he's about to be fed, and starts dancing back and forth. Feeding is hilarious, if he's gone a few days without any. He attacked a gold fish so fast that he created a wave and the goldfish ended up on the floor.
He likes to chase the larger green sunfish around, but he leaves the catfish alone. He's eaten every crawdad I put in there, too.
Like someone else said, if you like native fishes that feed agresssively and are very active, I'd start out with a green sunfish. They'll eat flake food, as well as just about anything alive that they can fit in their mouth (and they will try to eat things that are too big, which is hilarious). They also eat each other, so I only keep similarly sized ones now (although I catch smaller ones to feed the Bass). They don't get huge, so you can keep them in relatively smaller aquariums. In nature, it's not uncommon to find them stunted in small ponds with limited food supplies, so I suspect they won't outgrow too fast as long as they aren't overfed. Like others have noted, I would not use an undergravel filter, because they like to dig.
sandtiger
12-03-2006, 6:32 PM
My LMB won't take fish anymore, I had convict fry in there he could have taken with ease but didn't. The convict was in there for about a month before someone (largemouth, pumpkinseed, green, bullhead) finally ate him but I'm almost positive it was the bullhead. I have also put fatheads in there and he pays them no regard. Mine loves pellets though. I measured him today and he's 5.5" TL. Last time I measured him was November 6th, he was 4" then.
adamstv
12-03-2006, 10:55 PM
Iv had a LM for a couple months and hes awsome. They really b/c tame and will greet you the moment u walk by the tank. They eat like no other though. but ya they are TRUE ]V[onsters
chenaus
12-04-2006, 5:39 PM
When i walk into the room he'll start jumping up banging on the top of the lid. I can hold freeze dried krill about 10 inches above the water and my 4 inch lmb will jump up and grab it
Derpeder
12-20-2006, 3:46 PM
Dude LMB are the BEST!! Believe it or not my smallies are actually more aggressive then the large mouth. Both are rad though.
Mine will as well jump out of the water to get a hanging goldfish. Although no where near 10" I'd say my high jump is at oh 2". But I'll be working on that.
Best fish I've ever kept. (2 year fish keeping history and lots of different kinds)
One of my favorite things is when one of them will have a fish in there mouth tail first and they open there mouth just a little and the fish swims out and another will snatch it up.
I actually had one bass STEAL a fish out of another basses mouth. THAT WAS SWEET!!