On a recent fishing trip(lake grapevine) I was throwing my cast net and happened upon 2 largemouth bass and 2 perch about 2 inches on the bass, an 1 inch on the perch. Since I wasnt catching any fish I decided to spare the lives of these fishes and add them to my pond with my turtle and goldfish. After my turtle escaped after the last rain and ran off to the creek behind my house I decided to put together a tank, hence the current 55 gallon I aquired from craigslist. The bass have been happily living with my current setup of oscars ciclids cory cats, plecos, and a dragon fish. All fish in my tank are about 1-2 inches, and the bass are eating machines which my kids love. They only eat feeders and I havent been able to get them to eat anything else. But they are really cool, I think i have 1 male and 1 female cause of the color. I'll try to post pics on here soon.

Nice. Id love to see some pics of that.

pics of my bass are on my avatar, still cant get them to upload from my camera

i had a bass about the same size and along with feeders i got him hooked on Omega One small cichlid pellets (floating)

I've got a mix of panfish - incuding three types of bass. They've all adapted to the mix of flakes well, but it did take a few days of them watching the sunfish/minnows eating before they decided the flakes were edible.

One thing that can work well is to pinch a large bunch of flakes between fingers and stick your fingers in the water. The movement of the flakes in your fingers gets them very excited to bite at the 'living mass'.

Make sure you've got a top on the tank. These young bass jump when they're going for their share of the food!

sounds nice tho, you got any pics??

Cool!!!!!

cool grow him to record size that would be awesome

ya it would be cool to grow them out to record size.
just dont stuff wieght down its throat when you go to weigh it.

I often think about setting up a BIG tank for bass and perch! I think it could be AWESOME

i used to have some native large mouth bass but he got sick and i had to return back to his nature cuz it was getting my other fish sick too.