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#324569 03/07/13 02:51 PM
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Has anyone tried using 3 liter bottles as habitat? I was looking around the house and saw a recycling bin full of them, started me thinking. Would they be good for fathead minnows? I thought if the mouth was two small I could just cut it off, or maybe the mouth would be about the right size for them. Any ides on this?

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Never heard of it...give it a shot and see. Be sure to let us know! Maybe set som in shallower water and add some holes so water can circulate and not become hypoxic.

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Welcome! Good idea. What about cutting the bottoms off? IDK if the mouths would be large enough. Even if they were, I don't think there would be a large enough water exchange in the bottle to keep Oxygen levels high enough for a high percentage of eggs hatching.


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Thank you. There is so much good info on this board.

That's a good idea about cutting the bottoms off, hadn't thought of the oxygen problem, but that makes sense. I'll give the bottles a try and see it works at all.

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Rockfish,

Welcome aboard.

I have used something similar just recently. I used a 3" PVC pipe about 5' long, put it inside a 5 gallon bucket, poured cement, after a week or so, I took gallon jugs & cut off the top 1/4 portion, took 2 wood screws and screwed the bootom of the jug onto the PVC pipe. After that I cut hole with a pair snips all over the jug to allow for water movement. I went to the pond and dropped it in 6' of water.

If you do this, make sure to drop it in the water slow or maybe drill 2 holes in the top so you can attach a rope and lower it into the water. If not, the force of dropping it may remove a jug or 2, or 3.......speaking from experience.

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I expect it might bruise a predators mouth up trying to get to the groceries.


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Rock, here is something I am going to use. Old cat food cans with a couple of holes in the bottom and connected by wire. Either stretch out or lay in a pile. Add weights and sink.


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Rockfish-- I have been getting a lot of stuff together to soon deposit into my pond. I was looking and found peepaw's post about "self feeding fish feeder" and on his website fishiding.com they sell this. it's a big net full of recylced plastics. They are $50, ouch! To simulate i have been melting 2 liters and milk jugs and attaching them to cut up milk crates. The crate panels are a foot or so square then 3 or 4 are ziptied together. I'm trying to make sort of an artificial reef of sorts that will be attached vertically to a fence that is in the pond. It allows for access from either side, holes big and small going through it. The heat gun puts a nice surface on the plastic that I think will support life. It also melts it down putting various holes in it. Seems to also make the plastic more durable. I have also melted some down and used zipties to put them all together by either melting or drilling a hole near that top opening of the bottle. I think it kind of resembles a riprap or rocks.

If I were you i would take all those bottles that you have available and make it happen!! If you have a harbor freight nearby you can get the heat gun for less than 10 bucks and the zip ties for a buck.

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Those are some good ideas. I just hate spending money on something to throw in a pond lol.

I've been playing around with a way to use gallon milk jugs. They don't seem to sink very well, but I'm thinking if you could put something, maybe a stick, through the handle, you could line up several of them in a row. I guess you could even sink them vertical and have some sort of funky milk jug tree.I would think it would be pretty easy to do.


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