Do you guys bring home what you catch?

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bahamaqt00

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This is my first time looking around here on the fishing forum and was just curious if anyone catches what they keep to put in their home aquarium? If so what are your thoughts on that? I kind of think it is unfair to capture an animal that has lived in a huge river like the amazon, or a giant lake their whole life and is then transferred to a home aquarium that usually doesn't exceed a couple hundred gallons (Or maybe a pond if they're lucky) I guess I just would rather own captive bread fish because of a quote along the lines of "they can't miss something they never knew"

What are your guys' thoughts?
 
Only if its crappie!!!

Like I have stated over and over, I feel that LMB should be all catch and release!!!
 
I have never kept anything because felt bad about removing it from its "natural habitat" .

While back I came across a 'ditch" fed by canal loaded with very large and pretty jewel cichlids which were so large I was catching with hooks.

I didn't keep any but regret it as we than had months of 100 pls and it dried up they all died if not the cold spell we just had would have killed them .

Living in a ditch for fish is risky lol. If I knew such extreme temps were coming I would have kept a pair.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218560&highlight=jewel+cichlids
 
I do not think there is any pool of knowledge out there that shows a fish has the type of intelligence that would lead them to "missing their former living enviroment"

That is humans trying to interpret another animal's feeeling, that usually does not work.

I do not keep anything I fish for, what I catch is normally too big for my 250 gallon tank.
 
I've taken sunfish home. This was years ago, before I knew how to properly care for fish. But sunfish make excellent aquarium fish in every way. Check out the NA natives forum.
 
I eat what I catch, only if its considered excellent table fare. I mostly catch redfish, snook, trout, red snapper, mangrove snapper, cobia, wahoo, dolphin(mahi, for u non Floridians), speck, and sometimes fresh water catfish. However, I do not care for bland tasting fish like tilapia and freshwater catfish.

What I catch and release: All types of bass, tarpon, bonefish, jack, gar, and the occassional, bream, sunfish, and a few others.

If I catch the occasional cichlid, I dispose of them properly per the F.W.C.C. guidelines. I will not re-release them back into the wild. But this cold water and weather have been taking care of that this winter.

Also I do not think fish have a sense of "losing" their home, since many migrate to spawn and to search for food. People tend to be too emotional about things like this, but hey, its human nature. As long as you provide good, clean water, adequate food and swimming space, the fish should be fine. Datnoides are a perfect example, they are all wild caught and many people on this site have flourishing communities of this fish. Same goes with Indonesian tarpon and a bunch of other popular fish. The best thing you can do is to do some research and check it out.
 
considering people on this site go on collecting trips all the time, id guess that putting fish in a tank doesnt affect them that much cuz they seem to live fine and even breed once in an aquarium. as for me i have never done it, mainly because ive never caught anything small enough, and if i get a fish i want to watch it grow from the juvie stage. i think it would be cool to keep like a largemouth or striped bass in like 500 kinda like people do with cichla
 
knifegill;3904273; said:
I've taken sunfish home. This was years ago, before I knew how to properly care for fish. But sunfish make excellent aquarium fish in every way. Check out the NA natives forum.
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I have some dollar sunfish in back yard 60 pvc pond 1 M -2 F and 20 or so rosy reds .

They were CB . This was their first winter I hope they spawn when it starts getting warmer.
 
I kept some fry of a lot of sorts for my pond, but also take home all the bass i catch to eat.
 
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