I caught 4 1" bass the other day in a net at the lake. I have them in a 10 gallon tank right now as a starter tank. What else do i need to do??????????
Baby Largemouth Bass?
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get food for them and those 4 fish will soon be 1 or 2 because the more dominant and bigger ones generally eat the weaker smaller ones unless their the same size but soon one will grow larger than the rest and you will end up with one fat fish and thats it. So i would get a larger tank in the near future just a heads up.
For food i would get, flies, worms, brine shrimp, smaller fish if possible, ants, termites, nats, mosquito larvae, get water samples fro mthe lake the fish were collected and that will contain copeods (think thats how you spell it) and thay are microspopic organisms the fish eat, and thats basically it until they get larger. You can also try flake food but generally bass like live prey, but its worth a try because live food gets expensive
For food i would get, flies, worms, brine shrimp, smaller fish if possible, ants, termites, nats, mosquito larvae, get water samples fro mthe lake the fish were collected and that will contain copeods (think thats how you spell it) and thay are microspopic organisms the fish eat, and thats basically it until they get larger. You can also try flake food but generally bass like live prey, but its worth a try because live food gets expensive
well within the first year they will grow and need at least a 75 gal tank so put that on your list. for food I would feed them pellets and flake food and if they dont take it give them small pieces of worm.
I caught 11 of them the other day. I have 6 left, 5 died within the first 2 days. The ones I have left I have had for about 10 days and they now enjoy eating freeze dried bloodworms, and the ocaisional treat of some small guppy. Best of luck
yea ive already got a larger tank for them. ive been feeding them baby brine shrimp(freshly hatched) and they have been eating it ok. i just want to know what kind of life expectancy we are talking about and stuff like that.
I'm going to come off as a jerk here, but it needs to be said. Please don't do these sorts of things.
First, you're breaking the law. Almost every state has a minimum size limit on bass and also does not allow take of bass via dipnet. Your chances of being caught may be slim, but now you're talking about your actions on a public forum.
Second, you shouldn't take home fish you are not prepared to house. If your bass survive to adulthood they will need a few hundred gallons of water, and will require a great deal of food. If you don't have the money or inclination for that kind of setup, don't take a bass home. Would you buy a bunch of baby arowanas or stingrays if you only had a 10 gallon tank set aside for them?
Third, many people (not you in particular) take native fish home with the idea that they can return them to the wild when the fish becomes too big or boring. This is illegal and unethical, for reasons discussed in several other threads on this forum.
First, you're breaking the law. Almost every state has a minimum size limit on bass and also does not allow take of bass via dipnet. Your chances of being caught may be slim, but now you're talking about your actions on a public forum.
Second, you shouldn't take home fish you are not prepared to house. If your bass survive to adulthood they will need a few hundred gallons of water, and will require a great deal of food. If you don't have the money or inclination for that kind of setup, don't take a bass home. Would you buy a bunch of baby arowanas or stingrays if you only had a 10 gallon tank set aside for them?
Third, many people (not you in particular) take native fish home with the idea that they can return them to the wild when the fish becomes too big or boring. This is illegal and unethical, for reasons discussed in several other threads on this forum.
first of all im not even sure they ARE bass. second of all, my tank was prepared, third of all, ive had bass before. i had a 210 gallon with 2 2 pounders in it.
And one more thing, im not the only one who says they have baby bass. so why dont you go get on their case? no offense meant.
Ive kept natives out of a private lake so i dont see a prob with that. i dont take hundreds of them and kill them off so i dont see a prob.