keeping mousies alive

[Chrisper4694]

i buy a bulk of mousies at the beginning of the ice season cause they're so expensive and the bait shops run out a lot of times by me.

last year i had many dead ones by the second half of the ice fishing season. I tried to only take what i was going to use with me in a puck and left the rest in a original packing in the fridge then put what i didn't use back in and so on and so forth.

any one have any tricks to keeping these things alive longer?

[GetANet]

Give them a little cheese and water they should be fine!!!!!

No seriously my buddy used to do the same thing He kept them in a coffee can with saw dust and never had much problem with them Maybe need a diff location in refridge He would get like 500 at a clip and used a gallon coffee can. Maybe keep the ones you took out in another can.

[gwl2oneida]

Keeping them outside in your tacklebox is exactly what you do to not keep them alive. As I learned the hard way.

[jimmythegreek]

they need to stay dry, sometimes in the fridge they get humidity and wil die and blacken quickly. As Dale suggested, a coffe can with sawdust is the way I do it, i use tupperware thats low and wide so they are easier to find when going out. Keep them inside your jacket with some body heat against them so they dont freeze.

[bunker dunker]

what jimmy said,keep them dry and cold{not freezing}

[Chrisper4694]

so being in the closed container probably got them wet after a while with condensation and such....

ok now who wants to tell my wife why there will be an open container of bugs in the fridge now...