Ok, I went over to my pond today and the smallmouth bass fry in there are twice as big as the ones I am raising in an aquarium! Any ideas as to why the ones in the aquarium are so small?
Smallmouth Bass Fry Care
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I have a fairly large metal stock tank. It's about 5 ft long, 2 ft wide, and 2 ft tall. Would it be suitable for raising the fry to a larger size in?
Ok, so I collected some of the ones in my pond and they are huge compared to the ones in the aquarium. I think the size difference is due to the presence of some kind of small isopod that the pond fry love. Will post pics soon.
I use pond water to try to replicate the pond as close as possible. I think it might have been the lack of the small isopod in the aquarium. I added a bunch (probably at least 100,000) of them today along with 5 bass from the pond. Both groups of fry get along fine so far. The fry in the aquarium still look like fry; the pond ones are about 3/4 in. long and actually look like little bass lol.
Ok. I was feeding them red worms, mosquito larvae, and crushed turtle pellets and they ate all of them; I watched them eat the food. Maybe they just needed a large quantity of tiny foods versus a small quantity of small foods. I hope they catch up in size.
Here's some pics of one of the two bass I collected from my pond.
Please say it's a smallmouth; I only put smallies (as far as I know) from a local river in there, so it had better be lol.
Please say it's a smallmouth; I only put smallies (as far as I know) from a local river in there, so it had better be lol.
Why is he an idiot? He owns a large pond that most of us would be jealous to have and he's experimenting with raising some of his fry from his bass.
The fry in the pond have the benefit of cleaner water and probably plenty of live foods like copepods.
The fry in the pond have the benefit of cleaner water and probably plenty of live foods like copepods.
