Here's my request: Does/has anyone kept a LargeMouth Bass at home? If so...

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Redearsunfish

Redearsunfish

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A nice lake full of game fish!
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I'd love to see pics.

You see, it's my dream to one day own a 200+ gallon tank and keep a bucket mouth.

Unfortunately, having a young family has smashed me in the wallet like an ape on a birthday cake. Therefore this dream will need to wait.

:)
 
I have a wild caught LMB in my current 180 with 2 peacock bass and a pleco.
I will throw up a pic when I get home, I have had him for a few months and bought him for 5$ from some neighborhood kids. He has been a pretty cool pet and eats night crawlers and goldfish and sometimes fresh shrimp, but little else.
 
Will try to get a decent pic if he'll sit still
Eats live food and loaches but little else very picky
(Loach was too big to swallow so I got it from him before he killed it)
 
A few things that concern me about keeping a bass. First, the the bass I have seen in captivity, outside of the massive Bass Pro sized tanks, tend to have their front lips rubbed raw from trailing the glass I'd imagine. Do you think this would be unavoidable in a 200 gallon tank? Secondly, could I not raise a Largemouth from infancy, having them eat frozen and prepared?
 
Redearsunfish;4602729; said:
A few things that concern me about keeping a bass. First, the the bass I have seen in captivity, outside of the massive Bass Pro sized tanks, tend to have their front lips rubbed raw from trailing the glass I'd imagine. Do you think this would be unavoidable in a 200 gallon tank? Secondly, could I not raise a Largemouth from infancy, having them eat frozen and prepared?
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I have a Temensis P-bass in a 900 gallon tank that gets the raw lip from time to time when he bites the edge of the tank trying to eat to eagerly. I would say in a 200 that will be something you will contend with but certainly not the end of the world. Secondly, I think raising from a small size is the only way to go, by the way my bass eat pellets and still bang their face on occasion.
 
MATTCB;4602756; said:
I have a Temensis P-bass in a 900 gallon tank that gets the raw lip from time to time when he bites the edge of the tank trying to eat to eagerly. I would say in a 200 that will be something you will contend with but certainly not the end of the world. Secondly, I think raising from a small size is the only way to go, by the way my bass eat pellets and still bang their face on occasion.
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I hear ya. The whole lip thing drives me nuts on fish though. I don't know why. I tend to see it on larger wild caught fish a lot - it looks terrible and it just seems like a site for infection... :(
 
I just setup my 450 this summer and have two green sunfish, one sun perch, one long ear, and one LMB. I have had them for about four months and the LMB has put on about 4". I have them all on frozen food that I make. I caught the long ear first and he learned really fast to eat the frozen food. Once I got the LMB I let him settle in his new home and got him six rosey reds to teach him that I will be the one feeding him. Since then the LMB has loved the frozen. I feel really lucky to have five wild caught fish and have all of them on frozen.
 
I have a little five inch LMB that eats almost anything I put in the tank (live and non)
I got him when he was really small so he learned to eat what I gave him. I really love these fish :)

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