Re: Keep Fish Out Of Water
Phyllis Sterlin
Our family enjoys every kind of fishing, but especially deep sea fishing. We try to go on a deep sea fishing trip at least once yearly to stock the freezer with seafood until the next year when we do it again. Thankfully, we have many lakes and creeks around our community to catch bass, bream, catfish, and crappie for fresh water fish options.
A good rule of thumb is two pounds of ice should be added for every pound of fish. Fish and ice should be mixed as evenly as possible in the cooler.
- Dispatch the Fish ASAPDispatch the fish as soon as you pull them into the boat with a stick or a club and immediately put it into the crushed ice. Keep the drain open on the cooler if you are able so that the fish is not sitting in water and continue to add ice to the cooler or bin.
You can make your own draining container by purchasing two Tupperware bins the same size. In the bottom of one of the bins make drainage holes. Place the container that has drainage holes in the one without them. The melted ice will drain through and the fish will not sit in water.Freezing FishAgain it is important to note that heat and air are enemies to the quality of fish. Fish will last in the freezer from three to twelve months. There are several ways to freeze fish. Depending on how you have cut or not cut the fish either fillets, steaks, chunks or whole will dictate how you choose to freeze or preserve your fish.
All fish must be gutted and scaled before freezing. Once gutted and scaled, rinse the fish with very cold water and vacuum seal or store it in a zip lock bag removing as much air as possible from the bag. Whole fish can also be frozen by using the ice glazing method.
Freezing is an excellent way to preserve freshness in your seafood and fresh water fish. Lean frozen fish will keep for about 6 months. Lean fish is fish having less than 4% fat such as walleye, pike, snapper, grouper, and whiting. Fatty frozen fish, which has more than 4% fat such as salmon, tuna, halibut, mackerel, mullet, and trout will keep for about 3 months. Shrimp will last for about 3 months as well. Actually the fish can last longer, but the quality will decline quickly and your catch will be susceptible to freezer-burn.
- Freezing Submerged in Water
Fillets are often very suitable to this method. Rinse the fillets in salty ice water. Fill a zip top bag with salt water if saltwater fish and tap water if freshwater fish and submerge the fish fillets in the water. Seal the bag and place in the freezer. Shrimp are excellent frozen using this method. - Vacuum Sealer
The vacuum sealer method is excellent for most all fish and shrimp. Rinse the fillets in salt water. Place into zip top bag making sure to get all the air out or vacuum seal the fillets or shrimp. - Ice Glazing
Stacy Harris
I have always used the rule of 1/3 water to 2/3 air in bags. Whether I'm shipping, packing fish to take to a club auction or whatever. Best bet shipping guppies, I would use small bag, bag individually, probably only need a cup of water in each bag. I've always just used tank water, never heard of anyone used fresh conditioned water until I saw one of
Yep, and I also saw that Michael's Fish Room does that as well. Guess it just depends on the shipping speed, or the quality of the tank water to begin with. A mix of fresh and tank is probably a happy medium, or to do a 50% water change the night before shipping.
I'm on well water, I let my water age for 24 hour with an airstone, making sure the water have the maximum DO in the water. Since its new water it have no ammonia, nitrite, nitrate so its starting at 0. I dont use tank water because it already have some ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. I fast my fish the day before only, because the mass amount of waste should be out by then, fasting too long is stressful even tho they can handle it.
As for the amount of water I normally go with 20% water and 80% air. Since I raise whitecloud and rainbow shiner they can handle moving water, and with less water it gets more surface agitation. When I bought baby trout to stock my neighbor pond, thats what they recommended.... "Shake the bag, they love it, itll add in more oxygen" ?
Haven't tried it myself, but I've received a number of fish, plants and inverts by mail and I've seen about an even mix of breather bags vs. non-breather bags and all have done well (outside of the one in early December during a pandemic with a hobbled post office, but that's hardly the shipper's fault).
I've got a bucket load of liverbearers making babies, so I'm definitely keeping my eye on how to ship these little darlings at some point, and I've seen a lot of conflicting information. Some swear by breathers, some swear by NOT breathers. For the non-breathers, the advice I've seen is to add just enough water to cover the fins in any orientation, and/or fill the rest with pure oxygen, and/or use a bag buddy to help keep them calm and oxygenate the water. Suffocation is the greatest risk.
If I had to ship a fish on Monday, if money were no object, I think I'd go for a tightly sealed and well-insulated breather bag with a 24 hr heat pack, box not perfectly sealed to allow some airflow, and FedEx Standard Overnight (priority overnight just gets it there a few hours earlier and is more likely to get screwed up in my experience at an immigration law firm). If we're on a budget, I'd do Priority Mail but only for hardy fish, and I'd mark as perishable, fragile, this end up, and I'd probably wait til spring or fall to avoid temperature extremes.
Right, but the question is how much water? 8 ounces, 4 ounces? I know it depends on the fish, so say if putting 1-2 guppies to a bag. Or 2" bristlenose plecos, which I am actually going to be shipping soon.
In fact, two goldfish in a 55-gallon tank is often plenty. Overstocking fish will lead to ammonia build-up, creating an unhealthy living environment for the fish and undesirable drinking water for your horses.
Before dumping the fish into your water trough, first get them acclimated by keeping them in the bag they came in and allowing them to float in the trough overnight (or for several hours). Then you can set those suckers free!
While this may sound cruel, the whole point of having fish in the tank is to help keep it free from algae, larvae, and bugs, right? So let your fish do just that. If you stock your tank appropriately, there will be enough natural matter for your fish to live and even thrive off of. Overfeeding just leads to more fish poop, which will upset the natural biological balance of the tank.
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When purchasing shrimp, please keep in mind that they are social animals, and they do best in large groups of at least ten individuals. Any less than this and they will tend to hide, rather than graze as a group out in the open. I frequently see beginners make the mistake of buying just a couple shrimp for their community tank, then complaining that they never see the shrimp.
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Ideal tankmates
My personal success stories! These peaceful fish enjoy cold, hard, neutral pH water. In addition, they are either too fast for axolotls to catch, too big to make an attractive meal, or they reproduce fast enough that the population should be able to maintain itself.
Potentially good tankmates
These fish sound like they could be good axolotl tankmates in theory, but I have not tried them personally, or they did not work for me, for various reasons.
Swimming buffet
These are fish who enjoy the same water parameters as your axolotls, but are likely to become dinner very fast. If you breed them in a separate tank, they could be an attractive option as a source of cheap live food.
But fish-in cycling is easy and reasonably safe if one remembers the two cardinal rules to feed very lightly and stock very lightly. Prophylactic ich treatments are also in order (Ich-X and other formalin/malachite green medications do not kill beneficial bacteria, per actual scientific university research).
The simple way to do fish-in cycling is to simply only feed the fish the amount of one eyeball pelleted food every two days for two weeks, then up the food level to one eyeball a day for two weeks. Then up the feeding to a level of two eyeballs per day of pelleted food. If you have six fish that will be the amount of dry fish food equal to the volume of their twelve eyes combined, pelleted food.
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