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big_p
Minnow
Username: big_p
Post Number: 11
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:29 am: | 
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Does anyone try and keep minnows alive at home? We have tried everyhting in the book to keep minnows alive at home in water troughs and rubber maid tanks but to no luck. Just wondering if there was some trick to keeping them alive. We have a good ariation system and kept plenty of fresh water in the tanks but they woudl still die. What temp should the tanks be at? |
picou
Minnow
Username: picou
Post Number: 32
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:48 am: |
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I have a friend who has a fish farm. I will aske him if he knows. I generally just throw any excess minnows back in the lake before I leave or give them away.
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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big_p
Minnow
Username: big_p
Post Number: 15
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 12:15 pm: |
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That is what we usually do but it gets expensive if you get in a long strip of fishing. Minnows are running anywhere from $1.75 to $2.50 a dozen and they count everyone of them now. |
picou
Minnow
Username: picou
Post Number: 34
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 12:38 pm: |
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Wow... What happened to the $4.00 1/2 pound or something like that. I generally buy by the pound when I take the kids fishing. Seems to be cheaper that way.
As with pet store fish, the water must be de-chlorinated before anything can live in it. Are ya'll filling the tank then putting the minnows in it or using prepared water?
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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big_p
Minnow
Username: big_p
Post Number: 16
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 12:48 pm: |
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We fill it out of our well which is unchlorinated and fresh out of the ground. I have been unable ot find anyone anymore that sells by the pound. Where do you buy them at by the pound? |
wes
Minnow
Username: wes
Post Number: 2
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 2:11 pm: |
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Big_P I have thrown minnows in my cattle troughs and have never had a problem with them dying. Make sure the water is not a big temperature shock for them when you throw them in. |
audra
Minnow
Username: audra
Post Number: 10
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:33 pm: |
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What do you feed the minnows? |
wes
Minnow
Username: wes
Post Number: 4
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 9:38 am: |
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In the cattle troughs we don't have to feed them. there is enough algae in the water they live off of that. |
big_p
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Username: big_p
Post Number: 29
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 9:46 am: |
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Algae and mosquito larvae. When they are in a stock tank we feed ours range cubes. I thought Wes that there might be a problem with the galvanization of the tanks that was causing the problem. But if you don't have a problem I guess it is something else. |
picou
Minnow
Username: picou
Post Number: 57
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 10:06 am: |
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I think his tanks are concrete. Try the rubbermaid ones and see what happens -- heck, I don't know...
Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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wes
Minnow
Username: wes
Post Number: 5
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 10:09 am: |
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It could still be that. My cattle trough is cement. I have a galvanized one but we have only put goldfish in that one. |
big_p
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Username: big_p
Post Number: 32
Registered: 7-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 10:24 am: |
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We have tried concrete, rubbermaid, galvanized and put black plastic in the galvanized but all to no avail. I think the temp has something to do with it though they are in the shade so it shouldn't be too bad. |
wes
Minnow
Username: wes
Post Number: 6
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 10:48 am: |
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u might try putting them in a bag of water from the live well, and then putting that bag in the trough for about 30 minutes or so. this will take away the temperature shock. |
javelin
Minnow
Username: javelin
Post Number: 2
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 2:28 pm: |
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We sell minnows at my work and we keep them in rubbermaid troughs. We add some declorination stuff and a please release me minnow formula. We also aerate it with air conditioned air to keep the tanks about 65 degrees. We have to trade tanks every couple days and clean them well and put new water in. We loose quite a few minnows if we let them stay in the same water for more than two to three days because of ammonia build up. |
bluecat
Minnow
Username: bluecat
Post Number: 4
Registered: 8-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 8:33 pm: |
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The wife and I live on our own 8 acre pond and we put left over shines into large traps in the shade and they will stay alive for about a week at-leist (sp). As for buying minnows,perch, goldfish with several species and sizes by the pound, Oakhurst bait company... Hyway 190 east in downtown Oakhurst..Right out of Huntsville.. You can put a 1/2 lb. in 3 or 4 bags and they will stay alive for several days in the bag. When the Crappie(white perch)get going in Conroe in the spring the wife will go through several Lbs. a week.. I prefer jigs but she generally out fishs me on perch..
M&M
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