Keep Minnows alive at Home - Live Bait Aquarium

If you have ever kept pet fish at home, then you know how to keep minnows, except you will need to keep the minnows in a cool room, typically the basement in most homes will do fine.

In terms of equipment, you will need :

• an aquarium
• an aquarium filter
• air stone
• electric pump
• fish flakes
• screen mesh cover

The filter, pump and stone are critical to keep the water oxygenated. You only need to feed them a few flakes once in a while. If 5 minutes after feeding there are flakes left, then you fed them too much (and you should definitely remove those extra flakes from the surface!)

You will need to change their water occasionally. To change the water, make sure to use water with no chlorine, and make sure it has been in the same room as the aquarium so that it has the same temperature. Proceed by removing no more than 1/3 of the water at a time.

Make sure you have the top covered completely with a mesh screen, for example you can build one with a wood frame and fly screen. This is to prevent the inevitable escape attempts, minnows will jump out of the tank regularly, so do yourself a favor and prevent this from happening right from the start.

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