My Pickerel Ate Shrimp!
#1 Guest_chad55_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 02:27 AM
Chad
PS sorry if I rambled...its late and I am excited
#3 Guest_chad55_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 11:36 AM
Chad
#5 Guest_Duckman77_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 01:26 PM
Feeders suck. No need to worry about disease, fungus, or keeping a separate tank just for feeders now.
#6 Guest_choupique_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 02:07 PM
When I catch my own feeders, I usually have much more than that, so I keep them in a sweater box ( long, wide, low plastic container). You can buy those anywhere. I will change water weekly in these, I use a long airstone to areate it, and add a plastic lid from a smaller container for the fish to hide under. If not, they will pile up around the air stone.
Gammurus can be kept alive for months this way, but you have to add leaves or brown paper towels for them to feed on ,and hide in.
If I had to keep them at room temp ( 72+), I don't know if these methods work as well. But in summer, I just keep them outside in a large container with some plants in it.
A friend uses the bottom of a plastic barrel with an ordinary air stone. Again, the floor he has this on is cool. He only changes a buckets worth of water every week when he picks up a new batch of feeders from the bait store.
Tips for buying healthy bait and bait stores: Go to bait shops that have water pumping through the tanks at a good rate, and additional air stones. Look to see that all the fish are very active and trying to remain in a tight group. A few always die, usually from being banged around. Lots of dead fish, low water flow, and listless fish all over the top avoiding the group are signs of problems.
#7 Guest_chad55_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 03:48 PM
Chad
#9 Guest_dsmith73_*
Posted 28 December 2006 - 07:49 PM
#11 Guest_nativecajun_*
Posted 17 January 2007 - 06:11 PM
I have maybe 50 fathead minnows in a 30 gallon tub...BUT I have very successfully kept over 100 in there with now problem at all. I have no idea what is wrong. I have been doing 75% w/c twice a week latley because they keep dying and rotting in there. But hopefully I won't have to deal with this anymore. Also I got them from cabelas and it looked very healthy but next time I go I am going to try shiners instead...That is if I ever buy feders again. I probably will though because my bass likes to have a treat every week.
Chad
Just curious! Why buy feeders? Unless you are in a place that freezes every water source over then I can understand. I guess I am spoiled here in Southern Tennessee within walking distance to the Georgia line. You can catch anything from one half inch, and even less at times, to as big as you want any time of the year here.
#12 Guest_edbihary_*
Posted 17 January 2007 - 06:27 PM
Some people feel that using wild-caught feeders exposes their fish to risks of parasites and disease. I'm not concerned about that, and obviously you aren't either. But there is some merit to their argument. I think the risk is low, collecting them is fun, and you can't beat free.Just curious! Why buy feeders? Unless you are in a place that freezes every water source over then I can understand. I guess I am spoiled here in Southern Tennessee within walking distance to the Georgia line. You can catch anything from one half inch, and even less at times, to as big as you want any time of the year here.
Some people here are fishkeeping hobbyists, but not fish collecting hobbyists. They would rather buy or trade for aquarium specimens and buy feeders at the LFS. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, if collecting doesn't float their boats, or if they are not healthy enough to do so. For others, you and me included, collecting the fish and the feeders is half (maybe more) the fun of fishkeeping.
#13 Guest_chad55_*
Posted 17 January 2007 - 09:03 PM
Chad
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