Shiners at home

[NJSquatch]

How do folks keep leftover shiners alive at home?

I have them in a five gallon bucket with an aquarium stone running, change the water every couple of days and treat the tap water with conditioner but start to experience die off after 5-10 days. Curious as to what others do

Thanks in advanced

[Jigman13]

Water change, aerator, and filtration should suffice. Get some finer shiner too. A little of the blue crack goes a long way...as does shiner start to hard scales and enhance slime coat.

[ScowardNJ]

I use a cheap whisper filter

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002...whisper+filter

in a 10 gallon water cooler that I found on Craigslist. Keep it in a cool place.
I'll do 1/3 water change once in while. I've kept shiners over a month this way.

[acabtp]

Originally Posted by ScowardNJ

I use a cheap whisper filter

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002...whisper+filter

in a 10 gallon water cooler that I found on Craigslist. Keep it in a cool place.
I'll do 1/3 water change once in while. I've kept shiners over a month this way.

^ me too

[Charlie B]

When I built the live well in my boat I went to talk to laurie at Dows about how to treat the water. She uses well water and salt as in kosher salt or water softener salt. In my case I have a 10 gallon round insulated water cooler for my livewell. I change out about 1/4 to 1/3 of the water every day with lake water and add about 1/2 cup of kosher salt and keep an airstone running constantly. I have kept left over herring alive for over a week and a half and I don't know how long they could have lasted if I didn't use them up. And I believe herring are tougher to keep alive than shiners...Charlie

[pacrags]

I think i now have another project for the winter - digging out one of my old aquariums to set up to keep bait