I have a friend that has one  in front of his house.  He wont put anything under 6lbs in it!  It is so cool to look at those fish!  True story:  His dog was outside playing and he got his head caught in a plastic bag, he fell in the redneck aquarium and drowned!  Sad but true.  The aquarium is still there and my friend has not replaced the dog.

I was in a local pet store the other day and they had a peacock bass for sale $69 (Sale ??). Think I was reading where they are in the Chiclid family (not sure, I have slept since then )....

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They are in fact in the ciclid family.  They got tagged as bass by guides trying to grow their business.  "You call it a bass and every bass fisherman in the world will want to come down and try their luck,"  I think that was the idea...I think it worked.    I think the peacock part comes from the spot on the tail or the color?  maybe both.   It still blows my mind when I see those itty bitty ciclids at the pet store and I try to relate them to the peacock.

Calumet, post some pics please. I would love to have something like that in my house but I think Mr Teste would eat them!! Seriously though, I have wanted a setup like that for awhile.

my brother has a 55 gallon aquarium with a large mouth bass...he feeds it goldfish

The pet store by my house has peacock bass for $12 and barracudas for like $25 im considering getting a tank but im saving for a 400+ gallon tank so i get put a couple couple LMB maybe a smallie and a bunch of bluegill

Hooker, no pic avaliable. We set this up just after I graduated high school, over 15 years ago. Do you doubt everything you read on here? You are the Great Contrarian, and you seem to have issue with more things than anyone else on this site. If a bass does not have to work to stay alive, no predators, no real stress. And he is fed a lot, twice maybe three times per week, several dozen minnows from which him to pick, he/she can grow fast. We actually had it down to how many to feed the lot without having our Bass throw up and eat more. I understand that 150 gallons does not sound big and we all think big water equals big bass, but under easy living circumstances this happened. A lot of our fish died over the coarse of three years or so. The Blue Gill, the LMB, the Channel Cats, and the Bull Head did not. The Crappies, Sunfish, and the like all expired gradually over a few years, mostly from getting their butts kicked by the Bull Blue Gill. The survivors were all turned loose in a local public park pond when we moved.

I could go off on this one but will hold my tongue.

People, PLEASE read up on food requirements (and what will happen to your tank if you actually meet them) In optimal conditions (which a tank provides), a bass will eat up to 2/3 it's weigh/day.  I'm sorry, but a couple dozen goldfish a week is plain mean.  That's like someone giving you 1 loaf of bread a week.  You may not die but.....that's no way to live either.

Also , and this is a must. Read up on transplanting fish from a maintaned aquarium to local water. If you can't be bothered, PLEASE add a good dose of Aquarisol to the tank 2 days prior to releasing.

And , I wasn't expecting you to have a pic of a 3 ( or 5 , make up your mind) lb bass in a 150 gallon tank cause it would be dead. A bass has to be able to turn around in a tank. That is the max it will grow, till it can't turn around. My neighbor has a 180 gal, nothing in it over 1 3/4 lbs due to size restrictions. Not surprised there is no pic. And yes, when it comes to stuff like this, I'm VERY vocal.

If you want to see some really cool pics of Peacock Bass in an aquarium, go to www.peacockbassassociation.com and there is a guy who posts short flicks of his peacock bass during feeding time, etc.. Just move around the forum, not sure of the exact location within the forum.

One of my buddies works for dnr in georgia and he told me it was legal to have a largemouth in an aquarium the only problem is that if you decide to get rid of the bass you are not allowed to release back into the lake. This is to help prevent spreading of diseases among the fish.