That’s weird man; most pet shops won’t sell large mouth bass because it’s illegal to sell wild caught fish in most states. I have seen a peacock bass in a fish store and it kind of looks like large mouth at first glance. Don’t put limestone in your tank. Any thing that destroys ammonia just converts it into something else. The natural biological cycle is the best way to get rid of ammonia. Any new tank will have some ammonia for a short period. You should get some test kits and check your water parameters. I check my ammonia and nitrites once every couple weeks, and nitrates every other day.
One more thing, about a 1water turn over rate in filtration would probably be a good thing. Don’t forget that both these fish are jumpers, so cover the aquarium pretty good.
i was just fixing to say that. back when i was young, my dad put a redbreast he caught in our neighborhood pond in a 90g that we had. he had the whole thing to himself (except for a pleco). we had him for about a year. he was growing like crazy (we were hoping he would grow to be a state or world record
). anyway, he was gigantic. i got home from school one day and found him on the floor by the tank, dead. he had jumped up and knocked the whole top off of the aquarium (glass canopy & lights).
