ID this bass please.

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aaronb

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I caught this bass yesterday in a farm pond and took it home and put it in my aquarium with my CA/SA cichlids. We had been catching largemouth bass so I didn't look to closely and assumed it was a largemouth. When I put it in the aquarium and saw it swimming around I thought it looked more like a smallmouth. It's mouth is smaller than the others we caught. That's why I kept him because his mouth looked too small to eat my little midas cichlid. What do you think? Thanks.

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Thanks. That was another possibility I had thought of, but wasn't sure. His mouth seemed small, but I guess he was altogether smaller than the others we caught. lol He's about 6 to 8 inches. I was thinking I was probably the only person fishing hoping to catch the smallest fish possible. lol
 
It looks like it could be a lmb or spotted. But by the way you described it, it sure does sound like a spotted. I think we need more pictures :)
 
Well I guess I won't be taking picrures because someone else in the tank tore him up and he is floating upside down and dying. Is there any hope of saving him I could tell my wife to do until I get back? Last night the small Oscar was chasing it around as soon as I put him in there. One of the big tinfoil barbs was bothering him too. My wife said that his dorsal fin was completely gone. Not sure which fish it was.
 
aaronb;5078724;5078724 said:
I caught this bass yesterday in a farm pond and took it home and put it in my aquarium with my CA/SA cichlids. We had been catching largemouth bass so I didn't look to closely and assumed it was a largemouth. When I put it in the aquarium and saw it swimming around I thought it looked more like a smallmouth. It's mouth is smaller than the others we caught. That's why I kept him because his mouth looked too small to eat my little midas cichlid. What do you think? Thanks.

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that is a Micropterus coosae Red Eye Bass
 
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