Originally Posted By: Cray
Originally Posted By: Ryan B
My pond supplier who was a major help in giving me ideas for my in door system along with Cecil raised LMB in a RAS for 3 years. He told me that out of all the fish he had ever raised in a tank LMB were by far the hardest. He said that he had to constantly sort them for size and remove the smaller or larger ones on a monthly bussiness. All was well with the system for 2 years but by the time they were pushing 2 lbs they started acting strange and dying. He said that testing was done on some of them and if I remember corectly he stated that it was due to liver issues which probably stemmed from 100% pellet feeding. He was feeding a trout style food though so that may have been the issue...I don't know??? It was pretty neat seeing him raise them the few times I went into the store and had the chance to see them though! Good luck with the setup! You tank/pool sounds huge! Do you have any pictures you can post???

Ryan



My bass are fairly uniform at 12-14 " . I have had them for 13 months. When I got them they were 2". I'll get a few pics up as soon as I can.

Cecil did you see any aggression when they got to breeding age?
Also if you can think of anything that I might run into problem wise please let me know.


I have not raised largemouth bass in an RAS. Smallmouth from fry to about 5 inches yes.

I have grown out largemouth in cages and found them very adaptable to cages if they are feed trained fingerlings. However I released them into the pond by fall (got them in the spring at 4 to 5 inches) and released into the pond when they were 8 to 10 inches. (Large enough to not be an easy meal for the larger largemouth and yellow perch.)

I've been told largemouth reach a plateau at about 1.5 lbs on artificial feed.

Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 08/13/13 09:36 AM.

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