Live shad ,dead fatheads.

[rolmops]

Last summer I bought a different type of airpump from Gander
Mountain.
It really is an ionizer.It separates the oxygen from the H2 and allows it to become part of the air in the inter molecular space between the regular water molecules .
This has great advantages in the bai bucket because it is small ,makes no noise,and does not cause constant current.It effectively eliminated die off in the bait bucket where I keep my shad.So far so good.
An interesting side effect was the effects the same thing has on fatheads.It knocks them out!
The intermolecular space in the bottom of the bucket where the fatheads hang out changes and it stuns the fatheads.After turning the ionizer off,they come back to life.
Go figure.

 

[heycods]

Re: Live shad ,dead fatheads.

Check out this guys shad tank under bait tanks.

http://www.catfishing.tv/Main/tips-section/TipsSection.html

 

[brownies]

Re: Live shad ,dead fatheads.

Intermolecular ionizer thermo-coupler space modulator phizzer photon gizmos will do that.

 

[heycods]

Re: Live shad ,dead fatheads.

Not complete yet, I still need to build a Mounting kit so it wont turn over on the rough roads around here. And I have a small 115V pump I want to add inline with the livewell areator pump, so I dont have to depend on the 12V system all the time.

 

[rolmops]

Re: Live shad ,dead fatheads.

This setup looks very advanced,but aren't you worried that the constant noise of the water and the circulation will cause the fish to be restless? I had something roughly comparable and the shad kept on loosing their scales and they kept on dying.
I licked that problem by having the air/water mixer outside the tank and a freezer coil in the water to keep the temperature down.In the end ,what helped most was putting some black colored rocks in the bottom.They all gathered around the rocks and they quieted down quite a bit.
Mine was really a holding tank,not a bait bucket.

 

[heycods]

Re: Live shad ,dead fatheads.

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