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Every summer, livewell aerators and bait tank water pumps are always limited by the low oxygen concentration of oxygen in ambient air (<21% oxygen). Electrical mechanical aeration devices, livewell water pumps are ally limited by Mother Nature. Be wary that ambient air is not oxygen, oxygen is not ambient air contrary to popular beliefs and aerator salesmen’s myths.
For the live bait fish and tournament game fish being transported, the work of unnecessary swimming plus the extreme stressors fish encounter during capture and live transports is highly unnatural. Sustained high stress condition during summer live transports always increases cellular oxygen demand especially when bait fish and tournament fish are captured and transported. Available of oxygen in ambient air and ambient environmental water is always seriously limited by oxygen concentrations <21% oxygen during summer live fish transports in livewells and bait tanks every summer.
This serious oxygen limitation (aeration) combined with minimal overstocking during summer transports is the cause of hypoxic livewell water, acute and chronic suffocation minute by minute, hour after hour. Fishermen know the result as increased summer livewell transport mortality and morbidity in your livewell and bait tank. This predictable low oxygen problem in summer livewells and bait tanks is corrected by administering additional supplemental oxygen insuring sustained continuous 100% DO saturation to 130% DO supersaturation.
Do you have and use a real “Live Well” or “Death-Well” to transport tournament fish and live bait in this summer?
How important is Oxygen? Imagine being injured, acute chest pains, severe physical and emotional stress and scared for your life. EMT’s are transporting you to a hospital that is 8 hours away. You need oxygen as tour lips, fingernails, ears and tongue is turning dark blue.
But the EMT transport vehicle has a small electric fan (equivalent to an aerator/bait pump). No oxygen is available for you on this trip. You get to the hospital 8 hours later, you still need oxygen, but the hospital has bigger A/C fans blowing more air in your face. There’s no oxygen available for you. The end of this story is severe brain damage or death caused sustained suffocation, Hypoxia.
Fishermen see this scenario happening every summer in livewells transporting live bait fish and tournament bass, crappie and walleye hoping their mechanical aeration will provide enough oxygen for the total stocking density continuously.
Air simply does not contain enough oxygen for overcrowded livewells full of live bait and heavy limits of tournament fish. Non-functional aerated summer death-wells are killers.
Professional fish transporters bubble a specific dose of compressed welding oxygen in their transport live wells when transporting live fish. Air does not contain enough oxygen to meet minimum safe dissolved oxygen water quality standards when bait tanks are overstocked or contain small volumes of water in the summer. As you already know, morbid live bait transporting results are predictable when bait tank pumps and aeration systems fail to deliver enough oxygen, continuous 100% DO saturation – DO supersaturation for hours of live transport.
Anglers using The Oxygen Edge™ learn how to manipulate the dissolved oxygen concentration in bait tank water by simply bubbling 100% oxygen into the water. The result is “supercharging.”
Never entrain pure 100% oxygen into a water pump on the inlet side of the pump via venturi device, even when the water pump is under water submerged under livewell water. FIRE HAZARD
Divers use pure 100% oxygen underwater to cut and melt steel with the torch flame.
Some advocate entraining air through a venture tube on the inlet side livewell water pumps to make millions of tiny air bubbles. bait pumps with air venture devices dramatically increases the dissolved nitrogen gas to high supersaturation concentration. Nitrogen gas Supersaturation causes nitrogen narcosis and a fish disease called pop-eye.
Pop-Eye (swelling of the fish’s eye or eyes) is caused by excessive nitrogen gas supersaturation in water. Pathologically, tissue fluid leaks into areas behind the eyeball. The excessive nitrogen gas tension causes excessive fluid buildup engorging the eyeball forcing the eyeball outward.