Please tell me you're kidding me. I let my green sunfish take food out of
my hand and he bites my fingers often. Not only is there no blood, there is
virtually no pain. There's no way a bass has the teeth to cut through a
finger.
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Venn
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:21 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Keeping Largemouths in Aquarium...
When I was in High School in beautiful downtown Stoney Creek we caught some
chain pickerel and several small mouth bass. One bass would spend most of
his time resting on his side by a large rock to one side of the tank. Every
day during science class one of my friends would stick his hand in and prod
the fish until, one day, this bass took the tip of his finger off. Rob left
the bass alone after that-although I did encourage him once or twice to play
with the large natteri piranha our biology teacher kept at the back of the
class. (what a maroon!)
Ed
Tokyo Japan
>
>Back before there was a size limit on bass in Wisconsin, I caught and kept
>three largemouth bass. They were 3 inches each roughly in September. I had
>them in a 29 gallon. You could not find friendlier Oscars. By January I was
>up to a dozen minnows a day, and the three bass ranged from 12 to 14 inches
>in length. This was still in a 29 gallon tank. They had 50% water changes
>weekly. I was glad to put them in a little pond down the road come spring.
>( I know, I did several "bad things" I was 13 at the time)
>
>Ray>
>
>
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