Re: Keeping yabbies alive « Reply #15 on: Thu 31 Oct 17:33 2013 » ok whirly-whats your advice and personal recommendations on all this for fresh and salt,as i am genuinely interested in all this.i"ve discovered a land based yabbie area close to where i live,which is salt water,but also any pointers on freshwater would be good too. If its hot remember to dip the bag every couple of hours.

Alternatively like Dazz says you can use an esky just do daily water changes to avoid ammonia build up and keep enough oxygen in …

have kept up to 200 yabbies alive in clean shavings on dam fishing trips with a poly box some dry ice in the bottom between thin ply with holes in the ply 1 layer of yabbies shavings more yabs and so on still had live ones on sunday worth a try or frozen bottles work just as well as long as the yabs are kept cool This is very good in summer as the evaporation of water in the hessian and straw keeps the yabbies cool.