First of all I know its a terrible idea to put wild caught temperate fish into a tropical aquarium HOWEVER, my aquarium temp is @ 78°F and the private lake I caught it was @ 74°F, temperatures don't drop below 66°F at the lake. My water is fine, I checked the water of the tank with a PH of 6.9, ammonia 0. nitrites nada, nitrates checked out fine, I qt'd my bass and sunfish, used some anti parasite stuff and some aquarium salt.
Second, I tried MFK, they simply said stick it in front of the filter outtake to present the worm better.
My sun fish are fine, coming up to eat with the rest of my fish. Since I know the bass will not accept flake food I tried worms. I didn't expect him to eat them the first day even though I offered some. I tried again, cutting the worms to various lengths too, tried presenting it in different fashions, but nothing. I dropped a wood mite (rollypoley looking thing) in though and he snatched it up.
Additional info
My tank is 120 gallons, tank mates are:
4 giant ganios (2ish inches long)
10 fat Serpae tetras (1.5ish inches long)
5 clown loaches (1.25ish inches long)
1 pictus cat that hides all day but is really active at night (2.5")
3 small gold gouramis (1.25ish inches)
1 large gourami (4 inches)
1 12" pleco
2 sunfish (2.5ish inches long)
the bass is about 3 inches long, smaller than my old gourami, no one is dead, no fin nipping. My bass flipped out a little when my pleco glided past him, but he should be fine. My gold gouramis has been "feeling" all of the newcomers with there whisker things, not sure why. I was suggested to buy feeders, but my LFS has been known to have parasite infested feeders. I might try female guppies or ghost shrimp depending on if they are sold within a 5 mile radius. I really don't want to make weekly runs to a fish store to buy 2 dozen feeders again (my gars were hungry devils).
Second, I tried MFK, they simply said stick it in front of the filter outtake to present the worm better.
My sun fish are fine, coming up to eat with the rest of my fish. Since I know the bass will not accept flake food I tried worms. I didn't expect him to eat them the first day even though I offered some. I tried again, cutting the worms to various lengths too, tried presenting it in different fashions, but nothing. I dropped a wood mite (rollypoley looking thing) in though and he snatched it up.
Additional info
My tank is 120 gallons, tank mates are:
4 giant ganios (2ish inches long)
10 fat Serpae tetras (1.5ish inches long)
5 clown loaches (1.25ish inches long)
1 pictus cat that hides all day but is really active at night (2.5")
3 small gold gouramis (1.25ish inches)
1 large gourami (4 inches)
1 12" pleco
2 sunfish (2.5ish inches long)
the bass is about 3 inches long, smaller than my old gourami, no one is dead, no fin nipping. My bass flipped out a little when my pleco glided past him, but he should be fine. My gold gouramis has been "feeling" all of the newcomers with there whisker things, not sure why. I was suggested to buy feeders, but my LFS has been known to have parasite infested feeders. I might try female guppies or ghost shrimp depending on if they are sold within a 5 mile radius. I really don't want to make weekly runs to a fish store to buy 2 dozen feeders again (my gars were hungry devils).