How To Filter My Live Bait Tanks

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I built this over the summertime and the same process can exist applied for nearly any tank/pump manner.

The concept is the aforementioned as a pool's sand filter.  Inside is about four" of fist size rocks and crushed rock, followed by 4" of pea gravel followed by 4" of crushed oyster vanquish chicken grit (as opposed to sand.... crushed oyster beat acts as a ph buffer).  If you lot don't have an outdoor tank and thus your fish produce more waste - this provides good biological fitration every bit well as polishs the water perfectly.   The pipe comming up the middle you see connects to a home fabricated manifold which you blow air through (a store vac, erstwhile jacuzzi blower) to backwash the system without always getting your easily muddy.

Let me know if you are interested in edifice one and I tin can help you out! You lot can apply a 55 gallon barrel, a xxx gallon barrel, a trash barrel - I recollect y'all could employ anything just a bicycle.... barrow. (LOL)

Ed the BR

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Me thinks you allurement tank expenditures just went North of $100. I use fiberglass insulation and a spongetype koipond pump filter for filters in my tanks. Cost = 0. I remove the filters when the watertemp drops to forty degrees, considering the bait stops eating at roughly the aforementioned temp. No swallow=no crap=no ammonia=no demand for a filter.
Conduct in mind I practise not utilize alive bait during the softwater flavor equally I consider it cheating, so filters are only used for about a calendar month or 2 during trapping season(sept-oct). Looks like a cracking system ifya plan on softwater bait, but you will need a cooler (expensive) or a converted h2o cooler from the part to proceed temps down.

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Thanks for the respond!

My expenditures already exceed that - haha. (Just my tank does.)  Equally you lot mentioned in the winter fish don't produce as much noticable waste. All the same if your tank is indoors as mentioned then the luxury of that natural occurace is gone.

I don't utilize live allurement during the summertime months likewise as I don't bass fish. Holding bait over though is
expert for breeding for me and growing bigger allurement.  Merely regardless of the flavour you lot demand some sort of filtration and to never bear on a filter pad again is primal. Additionally y'all can incorporate a bottom bleed and or a settling tank and control your waste.

I don't have the name for nothing!

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Pitiful Rott, I was replying by phone earlier. But it seems my return home isn't very helpful as I can't find the pictures I wanted.

Anyways, many on here accept seen my tank and how it gets packed with fashion more than it should. (2500+ non pike shiners at a fourth dimension plus the "big" ones)  This organisation is definently geared twoards bigger setups... 300 gallon plus and multi tank systems.  Expert tanks though are what costs y'all the most, non filtration. Considering the barrel was free, the two m/f connectors to get in and out are only $1.50 each and a 2" drain costs $6. Other than that you lot have to be creative in how y'all build a manifold and if your resourceful getting rocks - a little craven dust and/or sand and your good to go!

The pump doesn't count every bit I have multiple pumps, submersible - canister and this one here external.  Nonetheless I am saving money as an external pump is the most energy efficent.

To buy something like this in a pre-manufacturered form would honestly price $500 or more, I'm just sharing a unproblematic solution that folks can piece of work off of. Equally I said you tin can do this with a little trash barrel and accept a better allurement tank than your local store and never touch on (or purchase) a filter pad again. Leave those for the novice aquarium hobbiest!

Personally I don't only have better fish than my local bait shop... the fish hateries around here could learn a thing from me.... they pump out 3x more phosphurus into local watersheds than federally allowed considering they care for their facilities like giant fish tanks and not biological niches. (And people eat those their fish!)

No deads in my tank!

Every bit mentioned if anyone attempts to brand a south/g filter and needs advice let me know!

Ed

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Lotsa questions BW. How many gph is your external pump? How many pumps are you running? I had a sort of prefilter at ane time that was about the size of a 11lb canteen of propane that had a screwoff top. Used fiberglass insul and charcoal numberless in that, but information technology constricted my waterflow too much. I grab alot of larger chubs, 6-ten" for bait and they seem to thrive off of abit of current. Bank check out this thread to see my allurement tanks-I take moved and improved them some , but they are basically the same------>>http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=118411.0 Also do you separate the monster bait from regulars?
I take to continue the chubs in one (top) and the golden shiners in the other (lesser). Chubs eat the shiners. Your filter is the size of my acme tank !LOL  I keep about 50-60 chubs and 20 dozen or and then shiners every hardwater season. I may upgrade to a 300 gallon pallet tank like 1MOFISH~es and build a pump like yours-like the backwash idea- in the futurity, but and then far my tanks have gotten me thru the hardwater season. I`yard sure ya noticed , I like talkin tanks ! or trappin! offseason hobbies

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Hey Rott,

That pump is large, 3500 gph, as it services a few things and takes into business relationship things similar it'southward caput loss from being in a decentralized location. Information technology can also exist pinched back slightly with the ball valve before it.  I'd say for normal kin, you can buy a 1500gph pump that is the verbal same model as I accept.  Also, a submersible pond pump can be used also, just the setup would exist a little dissimilar - only I am game to help folks!

Also, you can use a canister type pump similar those mini pool ones. Rather than using a filter insert, make a piddling skimmer basket for the inside instead! I'd perfer to concoct a method to hard plumb everything as I've learned that using flex pipe is no fun in the winter. Plus thats a scrap more restrictive... but not past much. PVC is cheaper besides.

S/Chiliad (sand and gravel) filters are extremely versatile and forgiving in construction... they are actually neat and perform to an amazing standard. Survivalist even learn to make them to purify drinking h2o.

As for seperating my bait.  I don't... I have, only I tin can't whatever longer as I make too much of a process of it with the "small" ones.  Pike sized ones I just throw in too equally I wouldn't take enough room really if I tried to seperate everything.  Sort distributing all of your space more evenly.  Like if you recall nigh a small living room, yous could have one humongous couch for a family unit and non be able to become into the room. (Theoretically) Or you could each accept a chair and put them in a circle/suit them as need.

Basically yous just dip and take what you want... it'southward all there.

Ed

Modified canister pump and other s/g ideas.

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Looks like a corking organisation ifya programme on softwater allurement, merely you will need a cooler (expensive) or a converted water cooler from the role to keep temps down.

Not if you utilize a working (18cf) chest freezer   LOL

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Non if y'all use a working (18cf) chest freezer   LOL

That and a xxx gallon s/chiliad filter and I can just encounter an amazing nearly self sufficent tank!

All you would need to exercise is drill through the chest twice and assuming it's sparse enough use male and female electric adapters (they are straight cut - unlike plumbing fittings, and screw together tighter) seal it up. And so connect to a ball valve and so a pump and ship it upwardly through the due south/g like you see on mine... accept information technology sitting on a couple cinder blocks and let information technology gravity flow back. For a tank similar that, perchance just need two blocks side by side to heighten information technology up and support it plenty. Would be really dandy and be super clean.  Plus as I mentioned, you take a ph buffer, no more buying or touching nasty pads, etc. Plus your making a a filter similar to how nature intends!

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