Pike and bass

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i have a friend that kept a baby bass in a 90 gallon, he kept it for I think a year or two and then let it go as it got too big. he fed it worms and minnows from the bait shop a few times a week. if you have any specific questions i could ask and get you an "in my experience" answer. also yeah it is probably illegal in many places to keep a small native fish like that in captivity, now it is not like the DNR comes around and checks everyones house for fish but if i was you i would just be careful who you showed it too or told about it.
 
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im not going to get either...

Im going to go the fw Barraccuda route....

Thanks though..
 
umm, pike and muskie, will grow depending on theire enviroments, if u can keep a pike in a 300 + tank, then the muski would be fine in the same size. if anything, i would recoment putting the pike in a bigger tank, since they move around a bit more than the muskies do by nature. muskies are teratorial, so idealy, they would be better in a smaller tank than a pike. as far as a pike growing "huge" it depends what you feed it, and the water temps.
 
Redfin and Grass Pickerel would be fine singly in a 40 breeder or 55 gallon tank. Bass, Sunfish, and other Centrarchids may pester a pike or pickerel, believing its stabilizing fins to be a surface insect, as Pickerel blend in with driftwood and floating vegetation. This can result in general stress and eventual death for the Pickerel.
 
Dan the Moose said:
umm, pike and muskie, will grow depending on theire enviroments, if u can keep a pike in a 300 + tank, then the muski would be fine in the same size. if anything, i would recoment putting the pike in a bigger tank, since they move around a bit more than the muskies do by nature. muskies are teratorial, so idealy, they would be better in a smaller tank than a pike. as far as a pike growing "huge" it depends what you feed it, and the water temps.
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they say the same thing in some not too popular stores.

using this logic you could justify placing an Oscar in a 20 gallon tank.

Chard, how big is this tank you are going to use? and what tank mates?
 
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I remember when I was younger that my father made a large tank out of an old refrigerator liner. He cut out one panel and cemented a large piece of plate glass to the inside and laid the liner on its back. We kept a largemouth bass in that liner for a year. We fed it night crawlers and minnows, then released it back into the wild the following season. He worked at a machine shop and had a large cylinder drum fabricated with a compressor and gauges. He raised a variety of tropical fish for sale and had around 20 fish tanks at that time.
I would agree you need a very large aquarium to keep bass and a much larger one for Northern Pike - with no heat. Personally, I believe fish that get that large should be left in their natural environment or be kept in a large city aquarium.
 
um you guys know that this thread is 3 years old correct? so are you really asking him 3 years later what size tank? he also said he is going the fw barracuda route

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