tank/acqurium?
please tell me your story! thank you
2007-04-23 05:35:22 · 5 answers · asked by Moore55 4 in Pets ➔ Fish
Sorry Copper head I have to dissagree totally with you here. I am a semi pro bass tourny fishman and I am sorry to say larger fish adapt more easitly than smaller.
My girlfriend has a very large aquarium in her bait store (guns, fishing etc.) and the largest bass was a 24 incher (11 pounds 23/4 oz just under state record) 7#7oz smallie , kept alive and in the tank for many years. Also a 14" bluegill (2# 8 oz by the way at that time a state record) in the tank as well. Citation Rainbow Trout of 321/4 inches 15# 6oz just shy of a friends state record of 15#6.5 oz on the same day. Tossed it into my Koi pond.
I am an avid fishman, yet records need to go back to breed or somewhere to breed. Just for the record, the bass, bluegill and the smallie were all returned to the wild healthy and happy after less than one year. However the rainbow still lives happy in my pond and I have a palimino female to go with him. Also of which a 17" was caught. This is what I do for fun. However If I am not eating them directly, they all get released. Records are not killed and studies, they are eventually released as well. The cat fish resides happily at Cabellas in Wheeling WV. I still believe in preserving fish. Even our Bass masters release the fish unharmed to where they were caught.
2007-04-23 14:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by danielle Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never tried to keep anything too large - I found out the hard way through some of my college courses they would have a harder time adjusting to captivity. I like to get fish 1-2 years old or fry of the year for aquarium set-ups. Better to acclimate to a captive environment, better at accepting commercial foods, and far better adjustment to living with tankmates when they all grow up together.
Some of the species I've tried (with a state permit): channel catfish (started at 3", now over 2'), yellow and brown bullheads (started around 2", now around 14" and spawning), common carp (started around 7", now 12"), large- and smallmouth bass (started around 3", now 12"), rock bass, several species of darters, minnows, suckers, sunfish, sculpin, and mosquitofish.
I started keeping natives as a kid, catching minnows from a stream behind my house. I got interested keeping them again seriously when I was in college, later used them for a native display in a school (300 gallon tank + sump).
2007-04-23 06:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my dad caught a 12 inch pike a few years ago and kept in aquarium for 2 months with no filter, he just put in freah lake water and he fed it goldfish, then released back to wild. Last year my uncle put perch in small pond with large goldfish and now he thinks hes a goldfish, the pond water is always cycling
2007-04-23 09:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by digby_by 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I know this isn't what you are looking for... but I want to tell you anyways.
I got a pet goldfish 4 years ago, and named him little dude. He could fit in a bottle cap. He is now over a foot long, and a healthy fish.
I got 9 other goldfish when I got him, and they all died. They were only 10 cents each.
2007-04-23 05:40:29 · answer #4 · answered by paper.bunny 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
9'' blue gill put into my 75gal native tank
2007-04-23 06:22:22 · answer #5 · answered by lilith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋