Possible idea for helping native through transport to our homes

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I went fishing today and caught a 6 inch blue gill. I had just received my warmouth shipment. The blue gill was in a bucket, the warmouth looked distressed. So I put the warmouth with the bluegill because I didn't think they would make it.

Two of the warmouth had a water that was blue or green. I saw that the bluegill was getting cloudy eyes, so I flew to a walmart and bought a aerator(other one damaged) and some aquarium salt. I added the salt to the water.

About thirity minutes later, the blue gill had no cloudy eyes and swimming better. The warmouth were in better shape too. I could be wrong but I think the salt kept the fish alive. The blue gill and warmouths are doing OK now :grinno:and moving around.
 
Sorry everyone for the mistakes. I have been working for 48 hours straight, when I wrote this thread.

Title should say, "Possible idea for helping natives stay alive and healthy through the transport to our homes." The thread should also state somewhere in this thread that the fish had salt added to the bait fish water. The fish improved dramatically during the ride home. Aquarium salt was then added to the existing fish tank too.
 
When I collect fish a always put about a shot glass full of marine aquarium salt in the collecting bucket, about 2 gallons of water. i also so like to start out with dechlorinated tap water as well. The stream or lake water often has lots of opportunistic bacteria in it. the salt eases the problems with bacteria and differences in water quality, tap water should be relatively sterile.... The most important thing is an air pump to power a bubbler in the bucket, fish will live many timers better with just the addition of a little bit of bubbles.... I've had crowded buckets of fish live well over a day in a bucket with these methods
 
i always have an airstone with me, i have 7 of them...i have a big cooler...with a drilled hole on top where the hose goes down...always works...no deaths
 
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