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The Oxygen Edge™ supplemental oxygen-injection life support systems are the oxygen system choice used by freshwater and saltwater fishermen worldwide since 1993.
C&R TOURNAMENT FISHING
KEEPING BASS ALIVE – THE LIVEWELL OXYGEN RESEARCH 1998 Gene Gilliland https://oxyedge-chum.com/bass-tournament-mortality/
Pure 100% oxygen will keep bait fish alive and healthy in overcrowded livewells, bait tanks and holding pens every summer. Keeping bait fish alive and healthy requires a continuous supply of oxygen maintained at 100% DO Saturation continuously.
The Oxygen Edge™ makes it easy to keep bait wells and bait tanks oxygenated keeping bait fish and shrimp alive and healthy for hours, overnight or days offshore.
FACT: Insuring minimal safe dissolved oxygen is the most important water quality parameter in any livewell or bait tank in the summer.
*Do not confuse “safe aeration” with “safe oxygenation” because oxygen is not air. Plenty air and plenty water pumped through a livewell DOES NOT INSURE MINIMAL SAFE OXYGENATION, contrary to popular belief, internet fishing forum Bro-Science and those old fishermen’s myths.
Keep bait and C&R tournament game fish alive and healthy in livewells and bait tanks in the summer is very simple and very easy…
1st and most important: maintain the Dissolved at 100% DO Saturation, keep the oxygen running continuously at the right dose and don’t suffocate the bait.
2nd: ventilate the livewell water meaning change the livewell water several time daily flushing out all the metabolic toxins from the livewell (dissolved CO2, Carbonic acid, acid water, ammonia, nitrites and those big chunks… feces, urine, scales, vomit, dead and dying bait.
That’s about all there is maintaining excellent livewell water quality during live transports.
THE SIMPLE 2 STEP SOLUTION NECESSARY TO REDUCE SUMMER TOURNAMENT MORTALIYR/MORBIDITY IS SIMPLE AND EASY FOR ANY FISHERMAN
TAKE CHARGE AND MANAGE YOUR LIVEWELL WATER QUALITY – BE A SUCCESSFUL LIVE FISH/LIVE BAIT TRANSPORTER AND FISH KEEPER EVERY SUMMER, CONSISTENT SUCCESS IS EASY
1. Oxygenate your livewell water with pure oxygen – Maintaining 100% DO Saturation to DO Supersaturation guarantees and insures safe oxygenation in overcrowded livewells and bait tanks every summer.
2. Ventilate livewell water – Total or partial water exchange several time daily guarantees elimination of dissolved CO2, carbonic acid,ammonia, acid pH, nitrites, nitrates and all other toxic metabolic waste.
Safe Oxygenation During Live Transport requires administration of supplemental oxygen in overcrowded summer livewells and bait tanks. The fisherman dials in the correct dose of oxygen on the O2 regulator. The correct dose of oxygen is totally de\pendent on the livewell stocking density. The dose of oxygen is never dependent on the livewell water volume. The fishermen ins responsible for determining and administering the correct dose oxygen and deliver that dose of oxygen continuously for the duration of the live transport.
Larger stocking density (overcrowding) requires more oxygen than smaller stocking densities. Fish hatchers always transport live fish using pure compressed oxygen or LOX, none use air, aeration or water pumps to insure minimal, continuous oxygenation for any live fish transports – never.
Listening to noisy mechanical aerator motors and water pumps all day on boats are unnecessary unless you like hearing the noise. Mechanical aerators are designed and used to remove dissolved carbon dioxide gas. Aerators do not remove toxins, nitrites, nitrates, urine and the big chunks of feces, scales and vomit.
Remove dead bait and dead fish from livewells and bait tanks frequently all day and all night.
Transporting live healthy bait in livewells and bait tanks in harsh hot summer weather is easy IF you can maintain excellent water quality, minimal safe oxygenation being the most important.
If you CAN NOT or WILL NOT maintain 100% minimal dissolved oxygen saturation continuously during live transports in the summer, high mortality/morbidity should be expected, no surprise. Without enough dissolved oxygen to satisfy or exceed the physiological oxygen demand for the total stocking density, high mortality/morbidity problems are guaranteed again every summer. Makes no difference how much water or air you pump into your livewell.
Larger stocking densities always have increased oxygen demands, require and consume more dissolved oxygen, produce more CO2 and carbonic acid. Safely managing livewell water quality is the fisherman’s responsibility.
The Oxygen Edge™ supplements livewell water with a precision dose of pure 100% oxygen. Turn on the oxygen, adjust the correct dose of oxygen on the regulator and change your livewell water a few times a day.
Keeping bait alive and healthy is as simple as livewell oxygenation and ventilation even in the hottest summer conditions. Keeping bait alive and healthy during summer transports requires excellent, continuous livewell water quality.