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2 pictures of my Northern Pike!


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Posted 26 May 2007 - 04:59 PM

Here's a few pictures of him. He's got quite a few scars, but he is a beautiful fish. Very active, too. Eats like a horse! A Pacific treefrog got in the tank and he just snapped it up! Wish I had a video of that! MVC_040F.JPG MVC_039F.JPG MVC_036F.JPG 036F.JPG]
In the last photo, I tossed in a worm for the pike, but the bass nabbed it and you can see him and a bit of the one eyed crappie and the pike if you look very hard.

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 07:34 PM

very cool :) IF I ever have a big enough tank LMB and Northern are on my list to keep :)

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 10:46 PM

That bass :roll: . He follows me around the tank like a dog. He's also a thief and a fiend. My brother caught a long-toed salamander and put it in there to see it swim. He had it figured that the fish would ignore the food if he was near the salmander while it swam. The bass blew up on him as soon as it left my brother's hand! (Which sucks, because I wanted that salamander for my terrarium). I think I hear the 'Jaws' theme playing... 8-[

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Posted 27 May 2007 - 09:46 AM

Hmmm...That northern looks pretty big. How big of a tank do you have?

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Posted 27 May 2007 - 08:53 PM

I say the word tank... :oops: I should probably mention that this tank is a 600 gallon circular metal horse trough/above ground pool. I attached and welded on a external drainer to it, put a Tetra Pond Filter in it, let it cycle with some danios and goldfish, then I put in the bass (Who, of course, ate all of the danios and goldfish :twisted: ), then the 2 yellow bullheads, then the pike and the one eyed black crappie. I, in addition, am planting some lilies and other native plants in there. I am always changing the water every two weeks and doing a daily check on my fish and observe their behaviors. Say, Chad, don't you own a LMB? Tell me, did he seem to steal your pickerel's meals when they were together? My bass is the most people friendly fish since he has been in the tank the longest and he always seems to have room for another meal, intended for him or not. :smile:
Oh yeah, the pike is 13 inches excluding the tail, the LMB is about 10 inches, the two bullheads are about 6 inches apiece, and the crappie is about 10 inches.

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Posted 27 May 2007 - 08:57 PM

Oh yeah, the "tank" is outdoors and the average tempature is 60 degrees F.

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 12:57 AM

I do have a bass...He is in my 800 gallon outdoor pond now. He eats anything. When I had my bass with my pickerel my bass killed the pickerel. Thank god I got the one I have now. And yes the bass stole any type of food he could get his dirty little fins on.

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 07:06 PM

LMB are little bastards, aren't they? :mrgreen: . Their relatives the smallmouths are extreme fish, though. They make the most crazy, aggressive, colorful African cichlid look like a fancy goldfish. My cousins had a 5 inch SMB in a 55 gallon. He killed all comers, ripping them many new bodily orfices. He attacked anything with the crazed ferocity of a rabid dog. That little jerk finally got eaten by my cousins when he was about a foot long.

NOTE: Sorry about the 'A' word guys

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Posted 28 May 2007 - 07:46 PM

LMB are little bastards, aren't they? :mrgreen: . Their relatives the smallmouths are extreme fish, though. They make the most crazy, aggressive, colorful African cichlid look like a fancy goldfish. My cousins had a 5 inch SMB in a 55 gallon. He killed all comers, ripping them many new bodily orfices. He attacked anything with the crazed ferocity of a rabid dog. That little jerk finally got eaten by my cousins when he was about a foot long.

NOTE: Sorry about the 'A' word guys

They really are quite sneaky. But man now that I have my bass in an outdoor pond it is so much fun to watch. He is always at the top and makes some ridiculous top water strikes. Its so sweet.

Chad

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Posted 29 May 2007 - 09:14 PM

They really are quite sneaky. But man now that I have my bass in an outdoor pond it is so much fun to watch. He is always at the top and makes some ridiculous top water strikes. Its so sweet.

Chad


Mine does the 'bass yawn', streches a little, then rushes from the cover to surface as I drop in anything that might be food.
Micropterus Bass are cool, but unless you got a big tank you never can have them permanatly, which sucks (Opt instead for the green sunfish or warmouth or any of the other sunfish. They are like pygmy bass). I was thinking today if a bass would chase a ping pong ball around on the surface like my now deceased oscars and other cichlids would. I dropped it in and watched as he dashed forward, stopped, sat there staring at it for a good minute, then swam away :razz: . I've noticed my 'wild' fish are way more suspicous of new stuff than my tank-bred fish, because if it is something new, it could kill you is their motto in the wild. Most of my oscars used to go forward and investigate up close into anything that interested them (Food, fingers, floating stuff, plants I thought were 'tough enough for a cichlid tank' No plant exsists, my friends!). The LMB observes at a distance, makes a desicion, then decides to fight or flight.

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Posted 09 June 2007 - 10:12 PM

I've seen an LMB eat a baby Canada goose once. :shock: It was a bitter sweet moment...

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Posted 11 June 2007 - 11:23 AM

I saw a male Mallard consumed whole by a big pike. That was SO cool.

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Posted 11 June 2007 - 10:56 PM

Any chance we can get some pics of your setup?



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