While I commend everyone here for encouraging you to keep going, and giving you words of praise, I have a slight opposite feeling.
This wasnt a "cruel joke by god", and yes these things DO happen. But what this is, is a young, not completely educated fish keeper here who I personally do not feel is caring for these bass appropriately. Mr. Fishy, I have been trying to help you for MONTHS with these fish, you have gone through many pbass in a very very short time. I personally think you should give your guys up, and move on to a less demanding fish until you A) have the knowledge required for pbass, and B) have the appropriate setup for them. It is very disheartening coming back on here and reading that you still have these 3 bass in a 20 gallon tank! MONTHS after you purchased them! Unless the ones you bought around the same time I bought my 2 small guys, have died (which would again be a problem), these guys would be 6 inches EASILY and in no way shape or form should be kept in a 20 gallon tank. The fact that you said "you dont NEED dechlorinator but you use it" is enough to say you havent done your reading. Our water here in florida has a TON of chlorine in it! This is a MUST at all times! Your tank is probably cycling due to the amount of waste these fish are producing in such a small enviroment! Please mr fishy, STOP with the pbass until this "200 gallon tank" is BUILT and ready, meaning you have at the bare minimum 10x the filtration and a month or 2 of cycling with no fish in it!
Give them up, or stop buying so many! My 2 are growing at a great rate, pushing 2-2.5 inches a month EASILY right now, and Im slowing their feeding down to reduce the amount of rapid growth.
I have put on my flame suit, but if anyone has been following his posts as I have he does not need pbass right now.