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We its a little behind but I caught 3 baby bass about 3in long almost 2 weeks ago. Also caught a really colorful perch about the same size. So now they are in my 90 and man are they cool! The bass gorged on guppies for the first week. Then I moved them to red worms and now they are on floating food sticks. It didn't take long for them to take the sticks. And now they eat till they look like a blow fish! I wish I could get pics but they don't sit still even for a second. They have grown prob a half inch so far. And are not afraid of me at all. I can pet them while they eat. I'm excited to see how big these guys get. I plan on reintroducing them to a small local lake once they are in the 3-4 lb range. And they will be switched back to blue gill crap fish diet once they are over a lb. So they will have no issues back in the wild.

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Idk how I'm messing anything up. I took bass from a small lake and I'm gettin them past the age that they would probably be eaten and taking them back. I'm not releasing snake heads. It's no different than stocking a lake....
I agree, non natives should never be released into local waters. But these fish are in there own tank with no other fish and are goin back into the same lake they were pulled out of. Oh and its a slot limit lake so they were legally harvested.
If someone can name a good reason why I am wrong please let me know.
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You said yourself you fed them feeders....feeders are known to carry all sorts of diseases and parasites, which could be completely exotic to native fish. If you release those fish into the wild you are potentially introducing something that could be devastating to the local ecosystems....
 
fisher12889 said:
You said yourself you fed them feeders....feeders are known to carry all sorts of diseases and parasites, which could be completely exotic to native fish. If you release those fish into the wild you are potentially introducing something that could be devastating to the local ecosystems....
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Not feeders. Guppies aka mosquito fish from the lake....
I actually am gettin my degree in marine biology at Texas a&m right now. So no I'm not a biologist, but pretty close....
So again. I'm asking someone to give me a reason as to why what I am doin is wrong...

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