bait seawater

[Guest]

hi , been on my mind a while this, seawater how long does it last for ,can it go off if you know what i mean i get freshwater every weekend for my bait ie crabs at the moment, i think we all get fed up having to keep going down for water john

[kensr27sz]

it does go off in with the crabs , needs changing dailey or at least every other day but i think keeping water a week should be all right if it is kept in a cool place and airated before putting in with crabs , ie shake the bottle .

[gogs]

i used sea water i had left from last year recently because i forgot to get some fresh and had no probs,i think the only thing you would have to look out for is a algae bloom.

[BriH]

get yourself to your local hotel and ask for a few Bulk Brew Coffee filters, buy a cheap plastic colinder/large sieve - then after you have given your crab their Daily or every other day drink pass your cloudy water through the filter - it comes through Clear as gin - i have been doing this for years now and never had a jot of bother with this method , i always have the pump running on at least 15 lts of sea water at any one time, just to bring on as many as i can - hope this helps - been using the same 30 ltrs of sea water that i got 3 weeks ago and it has gett\'in 98 out of their backs no problem at all - just the rest to get frozen now and the clocks to go back and hopefully were laughing

[john.frain]

you could also buy a salinity meter this will tell you what level the salt water will be at eg. 1.023 SG (specific gravity) etc depends where you live and what countrry.
They are cheap to buy and it ensures that the water that you are using is of the same quaility, what usually happens is the water evaporates leaving a higher salt content. this can cause bad affects to living baits. (crab worm etc)

you can pick them up on-line or from a aquarium shop that sells marine fish....

john

[Mike.Haley]

Dont know if it would work for crabs and worms, but i make all my own salt water for my marine tropicals. i make it up in 25ltr containers and it lasts for weeks. The salinity meter cost me less than a tenner and as john says them and the salt packs can be picked up at any aquarium shop. I get mine from felling aquatics.

[blastman]

hi all thanks for all advice but to make it all simpler can someone just deliver a fresh bucket of seawater to me everyday ??? houghton-le-spring ,mckellow was answering someones question the other day about making your own sea water and he reckons it definatly does not work , i dont know john

[bribones]

i suppose making your own would work ,a pal of mine had a sal****er tank in his garage and kept eels etc in it for the kids but he had to top it up now and then with collected water ,nothing to do with SG but it was the lack of nutrients in the water and the build up of waste ,if you could filter,rotate the water to simulate the tides id say it would last a while but stagnant im not so sure

[Stephen]

i go through alot of water with keeping crab.

this is wat i do:

10 gallon drum fill it with seawater and keep it in garage jobs a racer spot on works gd for me. Wen it runs oot do it agen. Used water 12mnth old at start of season.