Large mouth bass

[Bahama41]

My LMB refused to eat pellets had to keep feeding him live food.

 

[jdhuegel1]

If you want your LMB to cohabitate with anything else, feeding it pellets is essential. A LMB that is fed live will be extremely aggressive and either kill or eat all of its tankmates.

I suppose it differs. Mine (lmb) was raised from an inch and lives with bluegill, a catfish and an american eel. At one point the bluegill was food, but the bass coughed it up and it lived. That was over a year ago. They all eat live food 90% of the time, raw shrimp or krill the rest. The most aggression i see is the cat and eel as they compete for cover. The bass is 15", the perch 6", the bullhead 11, and the eel about (wont hold still) 36-38". Regardless, the bass is WICKED aggressive to food, but leaves his tankmates alone.


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[jdhuegel1]

My LMB refused to eat pellets had to keep feeding him live food.

Mine will hit anything and everything; when he realizes its not alive or at least freshly dead he chucks it and tosses me a mean look.


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[hemiboo]

They love crayfish too.

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[crappiekeeper]

My bass eats anything and everything living. Mice, snakes, lizards, fish, crayfish, even a hummingbird that fell in my pond. He won't touch pellets or things that don't move though. I've tried. Starved him for a week and he wouldn't even take a dead chub. Live chubs and crayfish are his favorite.

 

[n1czt3r]

so after a few months of feeding my lmb peas i have succeeded in tricking him to eat pellets! I just simply wrap the pellets in the pea skin hahah!... he still won't eat uncamouflaged pellets though .... since the success of him eating pellets his growth rate has increased rapidly and he looks happier than ever !