bass sleep

[ikeslayer]

Do bass sleep or any fish for that matter. i have a pet bass in my aquarium and from 1 hour past sundown until sunrise if i dont' have the lights on in the room he is awefully slothy. Just wondering if fish sleep or if they don't need it?

ike

[bwtrout]

Fish have a period in which they "rest", but it's not technically considered "sleeping".

[Slyster]

What does he eat? I think they do need sleep... I just put a timer on Bubbles tank (our old pet bass.... R.I.P )

[Griggs]

Well whether its considered sleep or not, but they'll just kind of sit there and idle, you won't be able to tell or anything.

What do you mean by its slothy? How big is the fish and what is your set up like?

[Fever]

I'm pretty sure you can find bass in one of three different moods. Don't think sleep is a good word for it but we could concider their moods as #1, Off, (kinda like being dormant or sleeping and about 20-30% of the bass population should be in this mood at any given time, #2, neutral... Basically very little movement, non agressive but still opertunistic, about 50-60% of the population in this category at any given time, and finally, ON or agressive... this is the third mood and about the same % of fish should be in this category as the off fish at any time & this is the one we wish they were in more often. This is a population stratagy that many fish imploy as to not overrun their forage base or Prey populations. IN a way they kind of take turns feeding so to speak. In summary... Fish don't sleep (they are cold blooded criters and simply go into an inactive state or mood). To us, that is as close to sleep as you can get I spose. By the way... I think all the fish in the lake I was fishing on Sat were flippin sleeping.....

[Ole the Guide]

It seems like whenever I go fishing I'm fishing over sleeping bass!! They're sleeping under the docks I'm fishing and when I go deep, those bass are sleeping too!

I just don't get no respect!

Ole

[Fever]

lol ole... I feel ya.

[bassNspear]

Isnt that a fact.