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AMBIENT AIR IS NOT PURE OXYGEN and PURE OXYGEN IS DEFINATELY NOT AMBIENT AIR contrary to popular fisherman’s beliefs, fishing fourm myths, aerator advertisements and aerator salesman’s talk.
THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MECHANICAL AERATION, AMBIENT AIR, LIVEWELL WATER PUMPS OR A REAL-LIFE SUPPORT OXYGENATION-INJECTION SYSTEM USED IN LIVEWELLS AND BAIT TANK WATER FOR TRANSPORTING LIVE BAIT FISH AND MATURE TOURNAMENT GAME FISH?
If your livewell or bait tank cannot ensure and maintain continuous minimal safe DO water quality during live transports in the summer with a normal stocking density (1 lb. fish in 1 gallon of aerated livewell water) of bait fish, you DO Not have a have a “LIVEWELL.” You have a “DEATH WELL”
SUMMER “DEATH WELLS” and bait tanks are often over-loaded with tournament fish, and live bait fish. Aerated Death Wells often have unsafe, deadly DO water quality every summer resulting in high mortality/morbidity. RE SUFFOCATION/HYPOXIA/DEATH. SUSTAINED LOW-OXYGEN SATURATION combined with heavy stocking densities of tournament fish or live bait fish is a recipe for disaster in the summer.
Sustained oxygen deprivation results in lethargic sloppy red-nose, disease, suffocation ad death for fish transported in summer livewells.
FACT: LOW-LIVEWELL OXYGENATION (HYPOXIC WATER QUALITY) IS THE MOST COMMON AND DEADLIEST LIVE TRANSPORT PROBLEM SEEN EVERY SUMMER IN NON-FUNCTIONAL BOAT LIVEWELLS AND BAIT TANKS.
HAVE YOU EVER REALLY WONDERED OR QUESTIONED WHAT THE ACTUAL DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN A “FUNCTIONAL LIVEWELL” AND A “NON-FUNCTIONAL LIVEWELL?”
POPULAR BELIEF IS A POPULAR MYTH: IF AN AERATOR OR WATER PUMP HUMS WHEN TURNED AND DEVOID OF FISH/LIVE BAIT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THE AERATED LIVEWELL IS SAFE OR FUNCTIONAL WHEN IT CONTAINS FISH.
THIS IS A “FUNCTIONAL LIVEWELL” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livewell
Functional livewells ensure continuous minimal safe DO water quality, (specifically continuous safe 100% DO Saturation) for all the fish and bait fish in the livewell. Aerated livewells cannot ensure minimal DO safe water quality (minimal safe DO Saturation/DO Concentration) for hours of live transports in summer days and nights when the livewell is overstocked by 1 tournament fish of a few ounces of live bait.
Hypoxic water quality and summer bait problems are fix easily by administering a specific dose of 100% supplemental oxygen regardless of abnormal heavy stocking densities.
Oxygen, air, oxygenation, aeration, air pumps pump oxygen are common words fishermen, outdoor writers, salesmen and pseudo fishing forum gurus.
Sunner aerated livewell suffocation often result in high mortality/morbidity. This is a common transport problem every summer in livewells and bait tanks, Oxygen deprivation and sustained suffocation is predictable every summer in all overcrowded livewells and bait tanks worldwide every summer. The problems begin when the environmental water temperature exceeds 79 F.
Ambient air is a major limiting DO water quality factor in all day/night summer live transports. More live bait, heavy tournament limits always demand more dissolve oxygen dissolved in livewell water. Suffocation is imminent without a continuous supply of oxygen of safe volume and safe DO saturation.
100% DO Saturation in livewells and bait tanks containing no fish sounds impressive but is totally meaningless.
100% DO Saturation or DO supersaturation is the profession live transport Gold Standard for all Federal, State and private fish hatchery live transports world-wide. It makes no difference if the stocking density is 1 fish, 1 lb. of fish or live bait or 1000 fish or 1000 lbs. of fish or live bait, the professional DO Gold Standard remains the same for all live transports. It is always 100% DO Saturation or DO Supersaturation.
FACT: In the summer, new humming livewell pumps and electrical aerator motors are running continuously. This never means or ensures that the DO Saturation is safe and the livewell is a “Functional Livewell.
When live fish or live bait is fully stocked in the summer livewells for hours of live transports, 100% DO Saturation or DO supersaturation must be maintained continuously for the duration of the live transport whether hours or days, night and day. Makes no difference if the tank is overstocked (3 lbs. bait per 1 gallon water).
Target game fish pay attention and detect vibration and noise, especially in shallow water. Humming livewell pump and aerator noise travels great distances under water.
Safe, sustained livewell water quality is what actually makes any livewell or bait tank or bait box “functional.” If the livewell contains live bait or tournament fish and the DO is actually tested and dissolved oxygen saturation test are found NOT SAFE… be assured that this livewell IS “NOT A FUNCTIONAL LIVEWELL.
Summer livewell mortality problems are very predictable beginning when the environmental water temperature exceeds 79F.
OXYGEN – what is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen
AIR – what is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth’s_atmosphere
Nitrogen – what is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen
Air is a mixture of these 16 different gases:
| Constituent | Chemical symbol | Mole percent |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen | N2 | 78.084 |
| Oxygen | O2 | 20.947 |
| Argon | Ar | 0.934 |
| Carbon dioxide | CO2 | 0.0350 |
| Neon | Ne | 0.001818 |
| Helium | He | 0.000524 |
| Methane | CH4 | 0.00017 |
| Krypton | Kr | 0.000114 |
| Hydrogen | H2 | 0.000053 |
| Nitrous oxide | N2O | 0.000031 |
| Xenon | Xe | 0.0000087 |
| Ozone* | O3 | trace to 0.0008 |
| Carbon monoxide | CO | trace to 0.000025 |
| Sulfur dioxide | SO2 | trace to 0.00001 |
| Nitrogen dioxide | NO2 | trace to 0.000002 |
| Ammonia | NH3 | trace to 0.0000003 |
The chart makes the SCIENTIFIC FACTS simple to see and easy to understand; why oxygen (supplemental pure 100% oxygen) is superior to Mother Nature’s Air and mechanical aeration during live fish transport. Sustained safe livewell DO saturation is the primary livewell water quality parameter, especially in summer liewells/bait tanks.
Electrical aerators and water pumps using an air entrainment venturis and spray bars will aerate livewell water with ambient air, not insure minimal safe oxygenation. Air is often confused and misrepresented and misunderstood as oxygen.
FACT: The primary application of mechanical aeration for live fish transport is to off-gas dissolved CO2 and ammonia gas in live haul water, i.e., fish tanks, boat livewells and bait tanks.
FISH HATCHERY DO STANDARDS FOR LIVE FISH TRANSPORTS: Optimum sustained dissolved oxygen saturation for live fish and live bait transports is 100% – 150% DO Saturation continuously. This DO insures continuous safe oxygenation for the stocking density whether the density is 1 lb. or 1,000 lbs. of live fish or live bait being transported for hours or days to the other side of the world. The requires “safe dose” of oxygen is adjusted to total stocking density being transported in livewell, bait tanks or live haul tanks. More bait/fish (larger stocking densities) always requires more oxygen (not more air) for safe transport water quality for all the bait and fish being transported.
Many fishing articles, fishermen and some biologists are often unclear and may be very misleading when it comes to talking and writing about these different gases (O2, N2, ambient air). How often have you read in fishing magazines or heard fishermen, a biologist, fishing tournament official or salesman tell you that, “more aeration or bigger water pumps will ensure more oxygen and better livewell oxygenation,” or something similar. The glaring fact that will not go away is that pumping more water and more aeration does not and will never ensure minimal safe oxygenation in any livewell or bait tank that is overstocked at any time of the year, especially in the summer.
The reason fish hatcheries always transport live fish with pure compressed oxygen or liquid oxygen (LOX) is to ensure that their transport water quality will never fall below 100% DO saturation, whether they are transporting one fish (like Texas Parks & Wildlife Department [bass] Lunker Program) or hauling 5,000 fish for a one-hour overland trip or a three-day trip hauling live fish from Florida to California.
When your bait or fish are suffocating, dying in your livewell in the summer from low-no oxygen, consider adding supplemental oxygen to your livewell water and flush your livewell water twice daily to control all metabolic waste toxins.
Success transporting live aquatic animals is simple… provide and maintain safe continuous doses of supplemental 100% oxygen continuously, maintain minimal safe DO Saturations (100% DO saturation or DO supersaturation) continuously with pure supplemental oxygen and change the livewell water a couple time daily.
There’s nothing to it…