There was a pond at the school I taught at. One day on a fish census lab, we would go fishing and tally sizes and species over a seven year period, we found a two inch large mouth bass stuck in an old sandwich bag. It was barely breathing. We put it into an aquarium and it rolled over on its back and stayed there. I grabbed opened its mouth slightly pushing water over its gills witj a small powerhead. It came back after about 15 mins and ended up becoming a class pet for 3 years. In that time he got to over 4 lbs and was a lot of fun for my students to watch eating everything from cut smelt and shrimp to crawfish, frogs, and mice.
Left to start a PhD and left the Marine Biology class in the hands of another teacher. She successfully destroyed the class in one semester. We had 60 aquariums and two 2500 gallon Intex pools modified for aquaculture in a greenhouse. One of the pools was full of africans about 2000 future breeders. She put the bass in there with them because she didnt want to have to come inside and take care of his tank over the summer. He ate every fish over the summer and got huge from what I understand. She then changed the water in the 200 gallon clownfish breeding suatem and didnt add salt to the water wiping out my refugiums. Needless to say what took me 7 years to build up was destroyed in 5 months.
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