Started a 50 gallon freshwater aquarium this past week

[dimbee]

The aquarium sans fish:

My gal and I went fishing down in a creek bed just down in South Carolina and caught a slew of little Blue Gills, Longears

... and 1 very small large mouth bass

In total, we have 14 fish in there. We went and got 20 Rosey Red minnows and poured them in there tonight. We turned off all the lights and watched a movie and when we turned the lights back, the minnows were all gone. So, they're feeling acclimated enough to their new surroundings to gorge themselves at least! The large mouth was sluggish the first little bit but he's pepped up quite a bit of late. It's fun just watching them meander around.

Good times.

[jasonluckydog]

That's pretty cool all the fish are local and free...Nice tank just need a Spongebob.

[jasonluckydog]

Why do you have a saw in the kitchen?

[dimbee]

:lol:

Dunno 'bout Spongebob but next up on the fish hunt is to catch a little catfish and maybe a couple of crawdads to keep the bottom in check

[dimbee]

Why do you have a saw in the kitchen?

Ran out of room in my tool room... I do love my power tools. :D

[The_Cannon]

Ran out of room in my tool room... I do love my power tools. :D

You sure you're not

But thats really cool. When I get the room I want to get a salt water tank. I've had fresh water tanks before but not one quite as big as yours

[bleys]

I used to have a 125 and 75 gal tank setup for freshwater.. had a fahaka puffer in the 125.. had to sell them a couple years back..

the bass should be awesome to watch.. especially if you feed it a minnow from time to time and watch him stalk it.

[mav1234]

nice, I always wanted a bass when I was little... I almost got to take some rainbow trout home from work but they needed to dissect them for an experiment :( poor little guys were fun.

I had a friend that raised a smallmouth in a fish tank... he had it for a few years before he decided to eat it :( lol.

[Razzy]

14 fish? way too many for a 50 gallon. 7-10 max or else you'll take some casualties from contamination or aggression. Of course this depends on species and tank layouts, but 14 fish is nuts.

[Kevin Greene]

I say by Labor Day Dimbee gets drunk and goes fishing in his own aquarium.

[PhillyB]

no piranha;dr

[dimbee]

I say by Labor Day Dimbee gets drunk and goes fishing in his own aquarium.

Labor Day, hell! I was thinking of doing it last night!

[dimbee]

Razzy- we went with 14 fish because that's how many we caught and we expect there to be a bit of Darwinism to observe. Survival of the fittest and whatnot. It should be fun! :lol:

[bleys]

that bass is going to be fun to watch.. I was going to set my next tank up with one.. always preferred a cannibal than boring fish in a tank..