Thread: Minnow bucket trouble

I use the same bucket.....i just wash good with dish washing soap and water.....rinse well and let bucket sit outside in sun with top off for awhile untill dry.

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DO NOT USE BLEACH PUT A LITTLE PEROXIDE IN WATER BEFORE YOU PUT IN MINNOWS.
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Years ago before I bought a bubblier I would buy minnows at Long Branch bait shop and they would live for days. They added about a tea spoon of non Iodised salt.

I have sanitized big vats by cleaning walls with salt..

I wash mine out without soap,then fill with city water and let it set all nite and dump it the next morning.I also use baitsaver with city water,it takes the chlorine out,dont remember which brand would have to look.

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My troubles started about five trips ago, when I went to putting fifty in my FraBil floating minnow bucket, instead of thirty. Since then, I have noticed them gasping for air at the top within forty-five minutes if I keep the bucket in the boat, or just plain dying if I flop em in the lake... Since I have been buying a hundred at a time, this has led to losing at least half of them on every trip, when I keep that half in this bucket.. I first washed the bucket out with a mild solution of bleach, then rinsed well... No change. Then I tried dawn blue liquid, rinsed really well... No change. Yesterday, I tried hydrogen peroxide in a mild solution, and did nothing but pour it out and let it dry... No change. Still losing most of the minnows with a couple of hours. The water they come out of the tank in is cold, so I have been putting them in my ice chest out of the sun, and keeping them cool. Before this, I frequently kept them in my outside refrigerator overnight with no issues. I am at a loss to understand this, other than assuming that I just have too many in the bucket when I try to keep fifty now. Yesterday, we put twenty-five each in two separate Styrofoam buckets, and they did fine, while most of the fifty I had in the FraBil were dead when I checked on them two hours into the trip. Is all of this caused by the onset of warmer temps?

Yes, O content related do temp, y'all get that ENGLE, expensive, but doesn't kill minnows

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If it is the bucket...why would they just start dying...I have used the same bucket for 5 years with no loss at all