WHO LIKES LARGE MOUTH BASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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have one that's about 10 inches. never does pellets. only live and frozen but, only if i shake it around so it looks like it's alive. they're pretty cool fish to own and really slow growers. i hand feed mine frozen shrimp and squid and it's pretty awesome when they gulp food from your hands.
I've been only feeding pellets to my other fish for about a week so he must've finally got hungry enough to eat them. You just gotta starve them a little whilemoodig;4722063;4722063 said:
They have such great personality's 
I tried stocking my farm pond after having it dredged to 15' deep with Bass with no success. This was at least eight years ago. I caught 7 LMB all in the 8" to 12" range and a SMB slightly larger. Long story short, they NEVER did breed. I have had nothing but good luck with the Minnow & Bluegill populations in the pond reproducing.
The pond is a natural spring fed well over 100' in diameter.
I found the SMB 1,000,000x more interesting than the LMB's. I threw hundreds upon hundreds of feeder goldfish in for both food and to add some color to the pond. Now the SMB was truley a beast hunting these goldies down.
Best analogy I can come up with of the comparison of aggressivness between the LMB and the SMB would be:
SMB = The Terminator. ("I'll be bok")
LMB = The Robot on Lost in Space. ("Danger Will Robinson")
The pond is a natural spring fed well over 100' in diameter.
I found the SMB 1,000,000x more interesting than the LMB's. I threw hundreds upon hundreds of feeder goldfish in for both food and to add some color to the pond. Now the SMB was truley a beast hunting these goldies down.
Best analogy I can come up with of the comparison of aggressivness between the LMB and the SMB would be:
SMB = The Terminator. ("I'll be bok")
LMB = The Robot on Lost in Space. ("Danger Will Robinson")
KittyKatFish100;4721969; said:I currently have one that is about 7 inches long. I just about got him onto pelletsHe's one of my favorite fishes and has a kool personality. Doesn't bother my other fish and watches people in the room haha
When I had my bass it would be staring at me from the time I came into the room until I left, it was almost kinda creepy lol. They're great fish, very hardy and quite personable.
The only problems I see with bass are that many are illegally captured (its illegal to net gamefish in most states, and many individual bodies of water have size limits). I know for a FACT that several people on here have gotten theirs this way...
Also, many end up being kept in tanks that are way too small, or in less than ideal conditions. I realize that most other species of fish end up in bad situations as well, but for some reason it is often considered more acceptable with natives...
I thank those of you who got your bass legally, and that realize they will likely need something in the 6'x2'-8'x3' range to keep an adult!
