09-28-2015, 03:30 AM
Then that will also be next weekends project also... Feeding water to the bottom verse aerating on top. Thank you for passing on your indepth knowledge/experience on that fact. In my head I was thinking the water shooting down on top was needed to assist in aerating the water but I see your point that since the system is constantly flowing water in/out that extra doesn't buy one anything and yes... The need to pee constantly did come to mind/happen often on the first outing listening to all that water splashing constantly. lol
I did notice last week that the majority of the Shad were in the top 4-6 inches. Only the couple "other" minnows that we caught were down deep. Makes sense after reading all that you posted. The upper portion is "fresher" water with more oxygen verse the bottom of the barrel.
Should be fairly "painless" to just remove/screw the aerator head from the 3/4" inlet I have and put on a PVC elbow. Then something to feed the fresh water to the bottom of the tank. Either a PVC pipe to the bottom or... Something to mess with. (I have decent chunk of 3/4" clear/thick walled tube that might be the ticket laying in the garage.)
With that said I will still install both the inlet and outlet at the same height or so on the new tank and go from there. I could just install the inlet in the bottom of the tank but I think that might make it a pinch more of a pain storage wise since I am keeping this one "portable". Down low I can see someone in the boat stepping on it, kicking it, etc when under the dash and not being used. Also with the inlet up high I can just toss the pump into the container when not being used plus my cast net and baitwell tie down ropes, etc, etc. Then just "bend/taco" the plastic lid and squeeze it in also. All my "Striper" stuff in one barrel tied up under the passenger dash.
Down the road will be power to the back and potentially a timer. Right now I have a 15+ foot length of wire with a 12v plug on it. That runs all the way forward to the passenger dash and gets plugged in. Works for now. Something simple to test/make sure of how well a baitwell works and again portable. Easy enough for power in the back since my main battery is right there in the back on the opposite side of the boat from where I have the tank sitting. Something to ponder over still keeping portable in mind.
Thanks again,
Tom
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I did notice last week that the majority of the Shad were in the top 4-6 inches. Only the couple "other" minnows that we caught were down deep. Makes sense after reading all that you posted. The upper portion is "fresher" water with more oxygen verse the bottom of the barrel.
Should be fairly "painless" to just remove/screw the aerator head from the 3/4" inlet I have and put on a PVC elbow. Then something to feed the fresh water to the bottom of the tank. Either a PVC pipe to the bottom or... Something to mess with. (I have decent chunk of 3/4" clear/thick walled tube that might be the ticket laying in the garage.)
With that said I will still install both the inlet and outlet at the same height or so on the new tank and go from there. I could just install the inlet in the bottom of the tank but I think that might make it a pinch more of a pain storage wise since I am keeping this one "portable". Down low I can see someone in the boat stepping on it, kicking it, etc when under the dash and not being used. Also with the inlet up high I can just toss the pump into the container when not being used plus my cast net and baitwell tie down ropes, etc, etc. Then just "bend/taco" the plastic lid and squeeze it in also. All my "Striper" stuff in one barrel tied up under the passenger dash.
Down the road will be power to the back and potentially a timer. Right now I have a 15+ foot length of wire with a 12v plug on it. That runs all the way forward to the passenger dash and gets plugged in. Works for now. Something simple to test/make sure of how well a baitwell works and again portable. Easy enough for power in the back since my main battery is right there in the back on the opposite side of the boat from where I have the tank sitting. Something to ponder over still keeping portable in mind.
Thanks again,
Tom
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