anyone have pet fish?

I could never keep bass alive when I had my aquarium. I kept many bream and a few small catfish that I would catch in our creek, but bass never did well.

I have kept bass before. Its difficult to keep the tank clean.. they shite a lot. But it's pretty fun watching them smash goldfish. They love em. Bass want live food.. so that's the hardest part keeping live worms and goldfish for them to eat.

I always wanted to try them in a koy pond.

I have done it with mixed success. In high school we had one in a tank for a year or so before we let him loose. He was about 6" and didn't grow any. Kept him in a tank with some bream and a couple crawfish.

The last time I tried to have fish we tried about a dozen bass over a year and none of them made it. Of course, I never really tried to hard to figure out what the problem was.

It can be done.

how big of a tank did you have?

I kept one for several years. They are very aggressive so only one would live and he killed everything I put in there with him except for a very large female crawfish. She whooped his butt one time and he quit trying to eat her. I fed mine mostly shiners. I would go buy around 50 and throw them all in there at once. I had a 75 gallon aquarium.

awesome. thanks fellas