North Mississippi Native Tank
#1 Guest_MScooter_*
Posted 14 July 2007 - 12:33 PM
#2 Guest_Irate Mormon_*
Posted 14 July 2007 - 01:08 PM
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Posted 14 July 2007 - 01:37 PM
#4 Guest_MScooter_*
Posted 14 July 2007 - 01:58 PM
The tank is a 55 gallon standard with hang on the back filter and two 18" lights -wallyworldspecial. The bank was made by piling rock and backfilling with sand and muck. I needed a platform for a turtle as well as substrate for our local chimney maker crawfish to use.(which brings up an invertebrate question) The amount of material needed shocked me at first but then i realized how much more surface area for natural filtration I was adding and went all in. Thanks for the complements.I REALLY like that mock riverbank on the left side... what size tank is this?
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#9 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 15 July 2007 - 03:37 PM
Bluegills get that colorful in Mississippi? Wow!It looks like a Mississippi bluegill to me.
#10 Guest_MScooter_*
Posted 15 July 2007 - 04:44 PM
I could be wrong , uhhhh... but, the yoy Bass has to be a Largemouth given the small 1 3/4 acre lake he came from only has LM B's in it. I took a second look at the photo and then Chuck Norris(her name) and concluded that the photo is deceptive with regards to the dorsal. The Largemouths that I catch in the smaller, more isolated ponds and lakes around here do not have quite the extended lower "jaw" and tend to be longer and more acrobatic than LMB I have caught in other areas. I always attributed it to a homogenization of multiple LMB subspecies through stocking of gamefish making the generic "LMB" we all think of. The trend to stock FLorida Strain LMB in this area infuriates me for this exact reason.
I will be fishing the next couple of days and will try to photo some of the color variations of the Bluegill, as well as pics of the indigenous LMBs.
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