Well I can only dream of Peacock Bass in Michigan.. We're the Muskie capital of the world.. with lots of Smallies and Largemouths but more famous for our huge Trouts, Salmon, Pike, Walleye, and Sturgeon but no Peacocks(obvious reasons). Anyways, a pet shop stocks Peacock Bass year round. My wifes, sisters, husband gave me a huge fish tank atleast 70 gallons. He help me set it up. He has grown everything from ALL of Michigans native species to even a few Peacocks. So I baught a 6 inch Peacock Bass from this store that stocks them year round. I will be feeding them goldfish mostly until it hits around the 5lb range. I dont know how long I want to keep it and its health is the number 1 concern for me. My question to you guys is when I grow it to that big would anyone be interested in having it sent to them and releasing it in the wild to enjoy the rest of its life? Im thinking Raul would be the 1st canidate since hes in Mexico and id be more then happy to send it to him when im ready unless some of you live near Peacock Bass and would love to release it for yours and others enjoyment. It sure will have a nice jump start on life.

I dont know how good it would be to just feed them primarily goldfish. I've talked to a fish store owner and he advise me not to feed my fishes gold fish because they have a lot of worms in them. when other fishes eat them, the worms come out and usually latches on the gills of the fish and may cause problems. besides I think goldfishes are expensive. Here, $1 would get you 10 good size ones or 20 small ones. You would have to buy a lot to get those PB full. If anything I would suggest you try to get a small PB and feed it market frozen shrimp. this way you dont have to go out and buy gold fishes all the time and its cheaper. They are around $3-4 for one lb. Also they are much cleaner for your fish tank and water. Not to mention that there is something in shrimp that has a natural color enhanncer that will give your PB really nice colors. I may be wrong but that is something to think about.

that's a cool little project man. Make sure to take some pictures when it gets bigger. I'd love to see what one of those looks like swimming around in a tank.

As for sending it to someone to release....good luck, that sounds very, very expensive and not worth it. Hell, just give it to someone when it gets to big so they can eat it, i hear they are good eatin'

If you want to release it into the wild when it is bigger i think it is inportant to feed it live food. If not then it might loose it's instinct to kill.

And if i where you i would tag it opon release. Then maybe some day someone will catch it and be able to contact you about its size, weight, and ext.

Sounds like a cool project. What are you going to name him?