Fish in the tank at Bass Pro Arundel Mills

10xclean · Sep 2, 2014

Went there this weekend with my little boy. He was standing up on the edge looking in an about crapped his pants when a big carp came rolling out of the right edge about head level. Funny to watch that one.

What are the fish he called swordfish?

And there appeared to be some snakehead like fish in there? Was that snakeheads?

campns · Sep 2, 2014

"Swordfish" could have been a Gar Pike or Pickerel Pike, there is a legend on the left side of the tank. I would doubt that they would put an invasive species in the tank with the snakehead.. but you never know.

10xclean · Sep 2, 2014

after using my Google Fu...

I believe the fish was a Bowfin?

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/fisheries/Documents/snakehead_id.pdf

campns · Sep 2, 2014

10xclean said:
I believe the fish was a Bowfin?

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/fisheries/Documents/snakehead_id.pdf

you know you might be right, i'm from near Erie, and the coastal fish here are a bit strange to me.

Fishguy · Sep 2, 2014

You should take your little guy to the National Zoo sometime and check out the Amazonia exhibit. You can walk right next to the surface of the aquariums there and often the large Arapaima will come right up to you. They have a couple of them which have to be 6-7 ft long and around 250 lbs. Took my 4 year old boy a few weeks ago and it left an impression (and he is around fish and aquariums all the time).

To answer your question, I've never seen that tank, but I hear they used to keep some Gar (didn't think they were native to md, but maybe they are). Back in the day of retail fish store working, little kids would call the Alligator Gars "swordfish" sometimes.

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pbharvey · Sep 2, 2014

My cousin's state record largemouth was put in the BPS tank after he caught it. Not sure if its still there or not.

bassmaster.com-new-maryland-record-bass

Fishguy · Sep 2, 2014

pbharvey said:
My cousin's state record largemouth was put in the BPS tank after he caught it. Not sure if its still there or not.

bassmaster.com-new-maryland-record-bass

Where did he catch that monster? What a pretty fish.

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DC-W · Sep 2, 2014

Didn't they have a Sturgeon in that tank?

hdatontodo · Sep 2, 2014

Fishguy said:
You should take your little guy to the National Zoo sometime and check out the Amazonia exhibit. You can walk right next to the surface of the aquariums there and often the large Arapaima will come right up to you. They have a couple of them which have to be 6-7 ft long and around 250 lbs. Took my 4 year old boy a few weeks ago and it left an impression (and he is around fish and aquariums all the time)....

Mine liked it a lot

shiloh228 · Sep 2, 2014

The Cabelas in Hamburg PA has multiple fish tanks, on both sides of a hallway...many different species...so your urchin would be surrounded by fish...cool!

duckslayer56 · Sep 3, 2014

They used to have a sturgeon in there. It must have died or something I haven't seen it in a while.

Fishguy · Sep 3, 2014

duckslayer56 said:
They used to have a sturgeon in there. It must have died or something I haven't seen it in a while.

Sturgeon are tough to keep in fish tank for a number of reasons.

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tdt91 · Sep 22, 2014

pbharvey said:
My cousin's state record largemouth was put in the BPS tank after he caught it. Not sure if its still there or not.

bassmaster.com-new-maryland-record-bass

Sorry to here your cousin is Justin. In this case the apple fell far from the tree called ED.

Fishguy said:
Where did he catch that monster? What a pretty fish.

Sent from the dark recesses of my mind.

He caught it on the Potomac in an area called the spoils. Winter time fish and MD state tidal water record.

INMY01TA · Sep 23, 2014

My two year old loves the fish tank at Bass Pro too.

thai · Sep 24, 2014

10xclean said:
Went there this weekend with my little boy. He was standing up on the edge looking in an about crapped his pants when a big carp came rolling out of the right edge about head level. Funny to watch that one.

What are the fish he called swordfish?

And there appeared to be some snakehead like fish in there? Was that snakeheads?

I doubt they would put a snakehead in there. Could it possibly be a "walleye"?

rrrrrrkevin · Sep 24, 2014

tdt91 said:
Sorry to here your cousin is Justin. In this case the apple fell far from the tree called ED.

His cousin has Erectile Disfunction?

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