For a chemical in your minnow holding tanks? Where do you get it?
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For a chemical in your minnow holding tanks? Where do you get it?
Better Bait and Finer Shiner are made be the same folks and have the basic same ingredients. Finer shiner has been formulated for hard scaled fish such as shiners. Better Bait is blue and Finer Shiner is green. Finer Shiner makes minnows so slick they are hard to hold on to. Both work for short term holding. For long term I use Finer Shiner.
J.F. Where do you buy the finer shiner
I get mine in Lonoke. I think Memphis Net and Twine has it.
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Amazon................ Amazon.com : Sure Life SL202 Finer Shiner: Shiner Holding Formula for Hard Scaled Baitfish : Fishing Bait Storage : Sports & Outdoors free shipping
I saw that, "G". Kinda steep for a pound. 3 pounds goes for $24.
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I have always just use a handful of ice from time to time during the day and it seems to keep them Frisky enough not to worry.... Yet I have had a batch or two die prematurely from whatever..yet not enough to go and buy some 5 or 10 dollar remedy, cure all,,,
I am looking for something to use in a long storage minnow tank..to save them from trip to trip
I'm looking for a link about long term storage. The only thing I've found yet is "Bait Buddy" good for about 24 hours.
Sure-Life bait problem solver!
With BETTER-BAIT™ in the water, there are much fewer losses and the baitfish are much livelier which helps increase the chances for a longer and more productive day of fishing.
I called the number on this link. BETTER-BAIT™ Minnow Holding Formula
I was told: Change 20 to 50% of water daily. Take water from the bottom of tank, that's were the bad chemicals are located, add more Better Bait.
Better find a way to cool your water when it gets warmer outside. Hard for me to keep minnows at the lake when I'm not there and it's hot outside.
I use an RV filter to fill my tank when I keep my minnows. I don't use to many chemicals.
I would definitely take Flangers advice in this matter. He has hauled billions of them critters.
Keeping them cool and change the water is the key. I use a RV filter for water change out too. The pipe is 6" down from the road to the house. On hot days the water is hot. I have a 10 ft coil of 1/2" tubing in a frig. The water is pumped out of the tank, into the frig and back to the tank. The best I can get is 10 degrees cooler than outside temp. It's got to be between 50 and 60. At 65 I was boiling minnows.
Run the coil in the freezer Cane. I HEARD that worked better. They make a water cooling system but I've never used one.
I use the blue stuff, but a guy told me to put peroxide in the bait tank and watch em get happy. When I run out of the blue stuff I may try this. After googling it, it makes sense.