12v minnow bubbler

[live4chrome]

I have one of the frabil rectangular minnow coolers, but it runs off of d batteries and they only last a day or so, and they are not cheap. Anyone know of a 12 v adaptor or 12v bubbler on the market?

[PurpleFloyd]

http://www.marinemetal.com/products/12-vt-air-pumps/power-bubbles/item/power-bubbles

Available at wally world and the HSOforum named after a big south american river

[PurpleFloyd]

There may be better choices:

http://www.marinemetal.com/products/12-vt-air-pumps/floating-airhead/item/floating-airhead

http://www.marinemetal.com/products/12-vt-air-pumps/bait-saver-aerator/item/bait-saver-aerator

[live4chrome]

Right on. It gets old buying 12-20$ worth of shiners a day just to have to do it the next because they all went belly up.

[Huey]

Frabil sells a 120v bubbler. Costs about $15.

It has the same size air hose as the battery operated pump. For keeping minnows overnight at home, you can connect the air hose from the 120v pump to the fitting on the outside of the minnow bucket and save your batteries.

[PurpleFloyd]

Right on. It gets old buying 12-20$ worth of shiners a day just to have to do it the next because they all went belly up.

How are you keeping them now?

[live4chrome]

Frabil cooler with the battery bubbler. It's too small to keep emerald shiners alive for long, at home I have a wall plug in bubbler and I use a large bucket in the garage which works better but still doesn't keep the emeralds alive very long. I have no problems keeping any other species alive. Really the main reason I was looking for a 12v is the batteries for the portable minnow cooler are expensive and wasteful to throw out every other day while in the sleeper or on trips with out 110 power

[gunner55]

We have a "power bubbler" with a 10+(?) qt well insulated Igloo cooler.We use it in the boat & it works well unless we put too many shiners in it or it's real hot.Then we just change the water or throw some ice in it.Had to drill a hole in the cooler & we leave the stone with air line in it all the time.They aren't cheap(~$50).I think now you can get them in GR at L&M or Glenn's,it doesn't take too many batteries/dead shiners to pay for.

[Hawg]

Why not just hot wire clips or a plug to the battery terminals if it 12 volt already?

[Lusid]

Do you guys feed your minnows any food to keep them alive?

PS - i went to amzn and purchased a 7.00 120v bubbler. Hooked it up to one of those bubbler stones and off we went.

From a scoop of minnows I think i've had 5 perish in a weeks time. Good enough in my book.

[gunner55]

I guess the 1 we have is "Marine Metal", just search for power bubbler.Now @ A....n for ~ $30+.This one has 2 pumps & 2 hoses,we did attach a bigger(2" dia) Frabill stone.

[gunner55]

OK now I see that PF's link beat me to it.

[Hawg]

Put your minnows down a hole when your in your sleeper. Any mesh bait bag works great.