Thanks for the info. Not sure if I'm going to pursue keeping a native. Yet. I'll just stick with catching them for now.
Has anyone tried keeping a Largemouth Bass?
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has anyone ever kept a lmb with channel cats or oscars at all (in my case tiger oscar, only about 4" right now)
Well...oscars and LMB live together in the wild in Florida so they can find a happy medium and basically that is what you would need to do. Something in the mid seventies would probably work, I have kept both species (not together) at this temp.
I'm not sure, I imagin it varies between seasons, places, depths etc. If it helps any fishbase.org reports the following for the two species.
Oscar- Between 71F and 77F
Largemouth Bass- Between 50F and 89F
Thats a bit odd though, because I would never keep a LMB in 89 degree water and I know oscars can survive in water warmer than 77F but that is what the site reports and it's a site I can come to trust very much.
Oscar- Between 71F and 77F
Largemouth Bass- Between 50F and 89F
Thats a bit odd though, because I would never keep a LMB in 89 degree water and I know oscars can survive in water warmer than 77F but that is what the site reports and it's a site I can come to trust very much.
I've kept a large mouth bass before. It was kept with a jaguar cichlid and other fishes. It was about 6 inches when I first had it. It died after three years and measured at about 13 inches. It was trained to take pellets.
I kept a 7.5 lb LMB in an oven for 15 minutes once... fed it butter and a little salt & pepper.Sting111 said:
Got revenge for all the little fishies of the world !
( don't worry, I'm sure he would have wanted it that way... at least thats what it sounded like to me )