You might be on to something I just would want to find a good looking sunfish it just bothers me that people on here are worried about a bass in a 125 yet the keep arowanas and other huge fish in 300s and stuff it's all the same haha
125 gallon bass tank
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A largemouth or smallmouth bass has a lot of girth, let alone pure size. A big issue with a standard 125 is the depth, after a year a bass will be longer than the tank is deep. I'd put an arowana and a bass as the same size full grown. Aro being long and slender and a bass shorter yet stockier. Another dilemma in a 125 would be filtration, such a large fish would require almost daily water changes to keep ammonia and nitrates in check. Look into longear sunfish, when it comes to natives they are quite amazing. Their colors ate a lot more vibrant than a bass.
Ok, I'm coming around to this idea. I can see how this would work. If I were you, I wouldn't put any more than two in the tank, and I wouldn't keep them past about 12-16". This way the bio load will not get extremely high and the fish won't end up stunted/unhealthy.
One thing to consider, the bass will be "cold water" fish, in that, the tank shouldn't have a heater. This will limit what can be kept as tank mates since many of the fish in our hobby are "tropical."
I agree that wouldn't be a bad idea and the one thing that I could see that's negative in having the bass is that he will get scared often and jump around the tank and break things
Yeah I see what your saying, my heater I have can go to 68 which is a perfect temp for bass so that would work too, like I said the one problem is them breaking things a buddy said he had that problem I just talked to him,cuz he went and caught one and just put it in and he was very frightened that's why I want to get a small baby and raise him up
In that case as long as the bass are well kept and are small atm then I don't see why you can't keep them.
