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Originally Posted by redlite
.....At keeping eels alive........
After too many scoldings from the crew, I finally fired up the live well.
Could you instruct me about this? Do I dig and old bathtub into the ground and cover it? How big for four dozen eels? Goldfish pond? In my garage or cellar? Do you have any suggestions how I could secure this from Numbskull or other vermin from sabotaging the critters?
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Under the tutalage of Angler 229,
The way I ended up going is taking my old 120 Qt coffin o' death, drillin 4 holes through the cover for hoses. I liberated one of the rollin flat bread carts from the back of Stop & Shop that I screwed a piece of plywood onto. I got 2 air pumps (in case one shats the bed) at Wally world for like $12 a piece. A length of tubing. 4 of the long air stones ($2/ each). Threw cooler on cart, fed hoses through holes on cooler cover. Let the garden hose run for a while, filled cooler half way up, and voila, eel tank. I am keepin it in the garage for now and that is why I mounted it on the rolling cart so I can wheel it outside to change the water. The issue I have is keepin the water cold enough so that my eels aren't swimmin around like crazy so much gettin skinny. I have been rotatin frozen 2 liter soda bottles in and out, 2 at a time, once in the mornin and once at night. I don't have enough room in the freezer to make more than that. Would probably be better off with 3 or 4 at a time to really keep the water cold so the eels slow down. That is the side effect of keepin it in the garage where it is probably 90 durin the day, but it was the best/ easiest solution at this time.
I put it together saturday nite, and changed the water tues, but as I did not wash the cooler out during the water change, it looked this mornin like I am gonna have to change it again today. Lesson learned.
The hardest part of it all was the battle with the wife to A) Have it in the garage B) Her nonsense about runnin up the electric bill for the little pumps runnin all the time. When I explained to her how much money I have been wastin havin eels die, she started to see the lite. Also got an arse reamin for how much I spend on fishin....If she only knew the other half of it......So far, so good.