My son also has been doing his own 20 gallon experiement since last March. First he put four 4-6" LMB in the tank plus two "perch"(sorry not quite as knowledgeable on the "correct" terms), 3 crawdads and quite a few minnows, all from the creek right down the road. He is currently down to the most aggressive LMB which is now about 8" and the biggest crawdad. One of the most entertaining things I have ever seen. This bass is so aggressive that he is extremely easy to train. He eats dangling minnows out of our hands and will only eat live food. My son also does a trick that he shows friends that I find amazing(he doesn't do it often because I'm afraid it will stress the little guy). He can put a live minnow in one of those small green goldfish nets and dangle it right at the top of the water and the bass will attack that net and hang on while my son lifts him completely out of the water. He shakes his head like a shark would do trying to get that minnow out of the net. I couldn't believe it the first time he showed me. Question for some of ya'll is this. The creek has dried up and minnows are now hard to come by so the feed has recently consisted of grasshoppers and crickets. Is this enough nutrition for the bass to survive. Plan on releasing him next Spring and replacing with a new economy sized one.

Billy Klemstein