Sunshine Bass Fingerling Culture

Comparison of Bluegill Consumption Rates by Largemouth Bass and Sunshine Bass in Structured and Nonstructured Artificial Environments

—We compared consumption rates of bluegills Lepomis macrochirus by largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides and sunshine bass (female white bass Morone chrysops 3 male striped bass M. saxatilis) in structured (about 50% coverage with artificial vegetation) and nonstructured 2,000-L fiberglass tanks. In the presence of structure, instantaneous bluegill mortality from consumption by largemouth bass ...

Temperature affects physiological stress responses to acute confinement in sunshine bass (Morone chrysops x Morone saxatilis).

Sunshine bass (Morone chrysopsxMorone saxatilis) were subjected to a 15-min low-water confinement stressor at temperatures ranging from 5 to 30 degrees C. Physiological responses were evaluated by measuring hematocrit, and plasma chloride, glucose and cortisol. Fish acclimated to 30 degrees C had initial glucose concentrations of 3.13 mM (564 mg/L) which were significantly lower than in fish ac...

Effect of Photoperiod on Feeding, Intraperitoneal Fat, and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I in Sunshine Bass*

The length of the photoperiod has been implicated as affecting growth of sunshine bass. This study was done to determine if photoperiod length might affect insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), which is a major hormonal regulator of growth in fish. Growth, feed conversion, peritoneal fat content, and plasma concentrations of IGF-I of sunshine bass were compared on fish held on a short (8 h) or ...

Sunshine and the cardiovascular benefits – a dose of sunshine!

Effectiveness of aquaflor (50% florfenicol) to control mortality associated with Streptococcus iniae in freshwater-reared subadult sunshine bass.

We conducted a field trial to evaluate the effectiveness of Aquaflor (50% florfenicol) for controlling mortality associated with Streptococcus iniae in freshwater-reared subadult sunshine bass (female white bass Morone chrysops X male striped bass M. saxatilis). Bacterial samples collected from moribund fish representing a reference population were presumptively identified microbiologically and...