What's up with Lake Smelt (literally)?

[Chub_by]

You need to hold them underwater and squish them, then they'll sink.

 

[Tyler2012]

Try stick feeding the smelts too them


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[Gill Blue]

set up your filter to push them down. works great for me with floating pellets.

I don't know if it applies to smelt, but I've read that if you get a lot of floaters in your brine shrimp it's because they were dead when frozen and the sinkers were alive. the start of decomp creates gases that will lift the briney little corpses to the surface.
I suppose that's why you need concrete galoshes when you send squealers to sleep with the fishies.

 

[isde02]

I'm not sure about why they float or not but I do suspect that they had something to do with my payara dying in the past.I have tried numerous times to keep red tail tats and armatus before and once getting them off of live foods I would feed them smelt,much like the cuts you have pictured.I noticed that none of them would live for more than a year and I could not figure out what the cause of death was.Fast forward to now and I have what I've vowed to be my last armatus and it has been going strong for well over two years now and I have never fed it smelt,only raw shrimp,tilapia and catfish fillet.Other than the feeding,I don't do anything else any different than I did with the others payara...Maybe I'm on to something and maybe not but I just thought it was worth mentioning.

Someone on here posted a thread about a year ago about smelt being just as unhealthy as goldfish and containing thiamenese, and ever since then I havent used it anymore.