soft-on Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Decided i would go and get a bass for the tank last night. So i headed down my favorite bomshizzle and casting kokoda bats all over the joint to be smashed by a 40cm Bass. Quickly and carefully i put him in the polystyrene tank in the boot and drove home as quickly and carefully as i could and put it in the tank. Caught some fresh water shrimp and about 4 hours in the tank he's already taking live cockroaches!. Cant wait to be eating dinner and casting hookless lures at him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zrealist Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 how big is ur fish tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squizzytaylor Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I was gonna ask the same question, and he will need some form of cover to hide in or will stress out and croak real quick. geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft-on Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 Guys, yes the log is being put in this afternoon, the water is rain water (aged). That was last night and the first photos. The tank is 6ft by 2.5ft high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martymonsta Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Make sure you have soaked the log properly to leech out all the black stuff that comes out of it otherwise the water will go dark real quick. You gotta give him a name too mate! I used to keep a bass years ago that I named Sherman. Sherman the bass! They're awesome fish. Cheers Marty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Thats lookin' awesome mate Like the others have mentioned, ensure you've got everything planned out. Don't want him dying. Nice size tank too. Best bit of it all is you can watch it grow and reminisce on the day you caught him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntman Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 My friend has a bass and I've wanted to do this for ages. When I get enough space I will. 40cm is a bit too big for me though, and then there's the problem of I have no idea about freshwater fishing It's cool how hard they smash the insects though hey. I would definately sacrifice any pesky spiders who invade the house to the bass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vipernut Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Used to have a Fresh water tank set up a few years ago(now have tropicals for the kids),had a couple of small bass,a barramundi,and an archer fish.Trouble was put a couple of small turtles in aswell,that when they grew abit killed the fish My bass were only fairly small but was great fun emptying a dozen or so feeder guppies and watching them stalk/smash them. I also had a log set up,that stuck out of the water(as tank wasnt filled to top because of turtles)used to put insects on it and watch the bass patrol under it waiting for them to fall off,or try to beat the archer fish to them when it shot them off. Stephen Might have to think about getting rid of the tropicals and going fresh again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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