Author Topic: my capitive bream... (Read 1502 times)

myronman3 · « **on:** August 19, 2003, 04:55:18 PM »

well i caught a bunch of slobs the other day and put them in a tank with two oxegon pumps and they are doing fine. they ate for the first time in front of me today and boy did they make short work of a nightcrawler. i kept 3 and the rest went for dinner. what a pretty fish.

willis5 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2004, 01:54:10 AM »

What ever happend to the fish that you had in a tank?

myronman3 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2004, 03:56:51 PM »

well i was working in the garage where i have them and needed to use the outlet where the tank is. so i unplug the air pump to do my project. then when i left i forgot to plug the pump back in. and i didnt realize it until the next day when i got home. :cry: i wanted to cry.

willis5 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2004, 08:06:29 AM »

sorry to bring that up. When I was a kid I always wanted a largemouth in a tank at my house. The money for the tanks and filters and stuff always goes to catching the fish!

spinafish · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2004, 06:57:47 AM »

When I was a child my father and I kept a "natural" aquarium. We had an assortment of fish through the years. We would either seine or kept really small fish we had caught. When the fish became too large for our ten gallon aquarium (we had four tanks..2 20 gallons and 2 ten gallons, but only one for the "natural" critters.)we would free them in a local body of water and go looking for a replacement. Keep bluegill and largemouths mostly, but had a few pumkinseeds and a couple of very small blue cats at one time. Also an assortment of other critters...crawfish, tadpoles, an occasional salamander. There was a stream near the house that was loaded with mosquito fish that were the main fodder for the bass and bluegills. One can learn alot from observing nature..even when confined to a ten gallon tank..

Bugflipper · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2004, 07:17:22 PM »

When I was a kid i friend had about a 2lb bass in a 10 gallon aquarium, seems like the thing lived 4 or 5 years. The bass would gobble worms from your fingers under water. I tried trout about 10 years ago without success, couldn't figure out if the problem was water flow or heat. Seems they'd last a week or so. I started keeping them a maximum of 2-3 days in just an oxygenated 5 gallon bucket to clean. I had considdered a cooling system and a pond pump in the aquarium, but never could find a radiator at a desent price.