LMB and foods other than pellets and shrimp!

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Chago09;641591; said:
Ok well let me lighten up the thread for a minute..... I have had my LMB for about 8 weeks now. First five weeks I was feeding a dozen rosy reds or gold fish once a week. I left for three weeks during the holidays and returned yesterday. I went out and bought a dozen gold fish thinking this bass was starving after 3 weeks of no food. He barely got excited. I always have to turn the lights off to get him to hunt. Once I did he chased a couple, bit them and if they wiggled the slightest bit he let them go. I think eventually he got one and ate it. He keeps chasing them all day but doesn't put much of a effort forth. This morning like 6 were just dead on the filter intake. Does everyones LMB act this way?????? HE used to be much more aggressive. I just read a lot of peope saying theres eat pellets???? how the hell did you get them to do that???? I tried every method possible, after I came home I fed pellets before I did the feeders and he didnt even look at them after 3 weeks of no food. My bass is about 5" and has grown and gained weight. He won't eat any pellets, or frozen food. I assume if it doesn't move he won't eat it. What are good live foods that can be fed??? how often do you guys feed??? and someone said goldfish are no good to feed because they are very fatty.... would it be a good idea if I had a 30 gallon convict breeding tank, and feed the convict babies???
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I think jumping from live straight to pellets is a difficult sell for any fish much less a bass.

I would start by not feeding the bass for several days. I would then add the food source the fish is used to but dead (fresh). Don't just toss in a dead goldfish and expect the bass to eat it. You might need to wiggle it with your fingers or place the dead fish in current or even use feeding tongs. If the bass will not accept the food then remove the dead fish, put it back in the freezer and and try again in a day or two. Do not feed any live foods to the bass during this time. Just wait and try again later. The bass will take this food when it's hungry. After a while of accepting the dead food you'll see that you can just toss in this food item and the fish will readily take the food. Now you're ready to try any old frozen food. I prefer frozen market shrimp since the cost is pretty low and all my fish love it. You should have no problem converting a bass that eats dead fish to dead shrimp. After the fish is converted to this food item you're ready to try the pellets. At first try quality FRESH pellets. You might need to put the pellets in the current just like when you started with the dead food item. You'll also have to get the good and hungry to eat the pellets just as before. Make sure and always remove any uneaten food since you'll have problems with nitrates if you don't.
 
I would imagine pellets and some frozen foods would be the best diet for the fish as none of these items would have parasites and would provide all of the nutrition that any live fish would.
the only fish I have (shared with a friend in his pond) that eats live food is a gar that eats platies and mollies from a smaller pond that we breed them in. also the occassional lizard that falls from the tree into the pond gets eaten by the gar or one of the bigger bluegills.

we would love to get the gar on pellets, but it will be next to impossible with the bluegills eating them as quickly as they do.
 
first of all teleost, your kinda mean.

secondly, that mouse from the video was NOT too big for that bass (if you have ever bass fished or seen videos on bass you'd know this. a bass will attack and eat something larger then the bass, hence a 2 inch bass striking a 4 inch lure). It just wasn't hungry enough. a bass that big can eat something larger then that mouse. Generally bass like alive and kicking as they go down the throat they don't usually eat dead things. So when the mouse, unfortunately drowned, he lost interst.

Bass are fascinating fish and they are pretty "BAD". they'll eat just about anything. I think that if you wanted to give your bass a treat of a mouse or duckling or lizard or anything every now and then.....cool.......I bet the bass LOVES it.
 
and the whole feeding a kid to an aligator thing is sick.

we are human they are animals. sorry to say we are different and superior, and we are on the top of the food chain. We have Logic and Reason and oh oh oh a SOUL. They have instinct.

"I think the coolest animal would be a giant bass riding an elephant cause then it would go around trampeling and eating everything in sight."
 
Feed a human to an alligator!? Ok here is something to think about. If we had the choice most people would say that they would never feed a human to an alligator right? And when it does happen people feel sad of course. Well whats to say that a mouse wouldn't do the same for their own species. This is the reason that humans don't get fed to alligators...because they chose not to and feel remorse about it. Whats to say a mouse does not feel sad when one of thier "family" members gets fed to something? They might have the same feelings it is just that they cannot do anything about it and they have no way to communicate.

Chad
 
And I have said this once and say it again. I PERSONALLY WOULD PROBABLY NEVER FEED A MOUSE TO MY BASS! I DID NOT FIND THE VIDEO THAT WAS POSTED FUN, INTERESTING, OR AMUSING WHAT SO EVER. And one more thing, Teleost you need to chill out a bit. First off this is just a debate. Second, that is one of the most immature things you can do to call out this guy on his parenting skills and even to go as far as saying that he has been arrested just by hearing him talk for 90 seconds. Chill a bit man before we get this thread closed. And I want to say to everybody else that just becuase I may disagree with you does not mean I hold anything against you.

Chad
 
Chad55;641929; said:
Feed a human to an alligator!? Ok here is something to think about. If we had the choice most people would say that they would never feed a human to an alligator right? And when it does happen people feel sad of course. Well whats to say that a mouse wouldn't do the same for their own species. This is the reason that humans don't get fed to alligators...because they chose not to and feel remorse about it. Whats to say a mouse does not feel sad when one of thier "family" members gets fed to something? They might have the same feelings it is just that they cannot do anything about it and they have no way to communicate.

Chad
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Chad I respect you and your opinions and points are great. I just don't think a mouse cares when another dies cause when one mouse dies its "friends and family" eats it. :eek:
 
Exactly....you don't THINK they care. But who REALLY knows? NOBODY!

Chad
 
Does this thread have a point to it?

It really is rather infantile and immature to feed a live rodent, frog , turtle, child to a fish..... Especially to a stupid useless black bass...

If you can not see how infantile it is then please do not reproduce....We have enough problems with the human gene pool as it is.
 
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