This is a holder for your sand fleas that you can make in five minutes that will cost you about two bucks. It'll help keep your sand fleas alive for few days. One of the problems with keeping sand fleas alive is that they produce a good amount of toxic waste. If you let them swim in it, they'll expire very quickly. This container will keep them high and dry, make it easy to flush them off, and fits nicely in the corner of your ice chest.

	Get two identical plastic containers from the dollar store (or borrow them from the kitchen when nobody is looking). The ones I used were about seven inches high and five inches in diameter. A buck each at the dollar store...

	Drill some air vents in the top of the lid of the first container so the fleas can breath easy while they're waiting to go fishing.

	Drill a bunch of holes in the bottom of the first container, so that A) the toxic waste from the fleas has a way out and B) so you can flush them with clean salt water occasionally.

	Put the lid from the second container away, and find a piece of PVC or other plastic material about an inch or two high that you can use as a spacer between the two containers.

	Drop the spacer into the second container, and then drop the first container in on top of it. You're ready to go find some sand fleas (which you will put into the top container; no sand, no water, just sand fleas).

Keep the container in your ice chest as keeping the fleas cool will keep them alive for a much longer time. As the sand fleas make their toxic mess, it will drain into the bottom container. All you need to do to keep the sand fleas fresh and happy is dump the bottom container and rinse it occasionally with clean salt water. After you do that, use it to pour fresh salt water over the fleas in the other container, which will flush them off and run right back out of the drain holes. Put them back in the cooler and they'll be happy for another four or five hours until it's time to repeat the process.

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