SUPERCHARGED BAIT TANK FRESHWATER @ 86 F.

The Oxygen Edge™ pegs the dissolved oxygen  (DO) meter needle  off the scale. Bait tank water supersaturated with dissolved oxygen and breathed by captive live bait fish and bait shrimp,  produces unnatural high arterial blood levels of oxygen.   High levels of oxygen  combined with  abnormally high levels of adrenaline  affect hooked live baits positively.  Pure welding oxygen is a supercharger. Bait tank water supersaturated with dissolved oxygen  supercharges live bait like they’re pumped up on steroids. Live well suffocation is eliminated in hot live well water forever. 

The Oxygen EdgeÔ  and you accomplish what Mother Nature can’t do.  You may now provide the right amount of dissolved oxygen in your bait tank during the summer when live bait acute and delayed mortality problems peak.   Oxygen deprivation stress in the bait tank cannot occur with  The Oxygen EdgeÔ.  Adverse conditions such as overcrowded livewells and long transports during the summer are   problems with bait tank aerators and bait pumps. Ancient  livewell mortality problem are corrected simply by bubbling welding oxygen into bait tank water continuously. Bait tank oxygen systems are perfectly quiet, compared to aerators and bait tank pumps. Electricity and batteries are no longer necessary with  The Oxygen EdgeÔ.

AERATED  BAIT TANK FRESHWATER @ 86 F.

Every summer, the death and dieing in your boat livewells and bait tanks begin when  water temperatures reaches 75 F - 80 F and get worse as livewell hypoxia progresses during the day.

All the money that you have  spent or will ever spend on aeration systems, bait tank pumps, batteries, replacing dying bait, ended fishing trips, aggravation,  buys you only 2.3 PPM DO in freshwater.  That's with no live bait or tournament fish in the livewell. The saltwater DO would increase only 1.3 PPM.  This is not enough dissolved oxygen in your bait tank in the summer and the sad results are imminent and predictable. What you buy is what you get and oxygen is less expensive than air. 

Saltwater holds 42% less dissolved oxygen than freshwater holds at the same water temperature. Salinity affects oxygen's ability to dissolve in water. Multiply the test DO values times 0.58 to convert to saltwater values, and you can see why bait tank oxygen problems are more severe for saltwater anglers.  Your boat livewell or portable live bait tank is a very different matter during the summer. Live bait fishermen often overstock bait tanks when attempting  to transport lots of live bait in the summer and mortality is often the result. Our test samples contained no live bait fish in the water breathing and reducing oxygen levels.

NORMAL ENVIRONMENTAL  FRESH WATER @ 86 F

Live bait fish, bass, and estuary fish routinely live in environmental water having dissolved oxygen concentrations within  this range during the summer. Warm water fish tolerate lower than normal DO levels in their normal environment easily, provided they have immediate access to thousands of gallons of water and they are not being chased, hooked, fought and landed. Cold water fish, such as  walleye, would encounter serious life threatening oxygen deprivation stress with this DO.  For wild captive aquatic animals in crisis in your bait tank, life is more demanding  than  living in the steady state environment.

The Oxygen EdgeÔ is not a bait tank or live well aerator, it's a portable life support oxygen system used for transporting live bait fish, bass, walleye and crappie in closed livewells for long distances.

The Oxygen EdgeÔ supercharges live bait fish with 100% welding oxygen bubbling into your bait tank water.  Oxygen is absolutely necessary for supercharging live bait fish, transporting and stockpiling live baitfish and reducing delayed mortality with  tournament fish in the summer.

Bait tank  aerators and flow through live well pump systems are used by most anglers worldwide for transporting live bait fish, bass and other species. Federal, state and proprietary fish hatcheries transport live fish with oxygen bubbling into their live wells. They are successful fish transport experts because they understand how to prevent  livewell suffocation simply by bubbling welding  oxygen into their livewells and managing water quality.

Mother Nature controls the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations delivered by all bait tank  pumps and aeration systems. She provides less than 21% oxygen in her air regardless of the volume of air or water you pump through your livewell. Air contains 1/5 oxygen and 4/5 nitrogen, at best. Doubling the amount of air or water flowing through your livewell with multiple bait tank pumps will not double the DO concentrations, but it will multiply the oxygen requirements and oxygen demand for all bait fish, shrimp and catch and release tournament fish in your live well. They all must swim harder to maintain equilibrium and the energy required may exhaust the available dissolved oxygen in the bait tank water. All live bait fishermen see this problem in the summer.

Excessive mechanical aeration systems producing millions of tiny air bubbles suspended  in  bait tank water often causes nitrogen supersaturation, negatively affecting live bait fish and live tournament fish. Excessive dissolved nitrogen gas supersaturation negatively affects SCUBA divers on occasion.  The disorder is  bends or gas bubble disease. Bends is very painful and it may progress to paralysis and death. Anglers using aeration systems that produce millions of ultra small air bubbles may cause bait tank bends in captive live bait, bass and tournament catch and release fish.

Fishermen catch healthy baitfish and sport fish every summer in hot environmental water. For stressed live bait fish and live tournament fish, the death and dying begins in freshwater livewells when the DO concentrations fall below 6.5 parts per million (PPM). Fish that live in hot (>86 F.) environmental water that are not being netted, hooked or disturbed routinely live in water with DO concentrations below 5 PPM in the summer without ill effects.    Tournament bass,  bait fish,  and  shrimp survive in hot summertime environmental water year after year and the water is becoming hotter every year.   Live bait fish and live tournament fish that are chased, netted, hooked, fought, caught, handled, injured and confined in a boat live well with small water volumes and then bounced around all day in a boat livewell develop severe oxygen deprivation stress. The Oxygen EdgeÔ eliminates livewell oxygen deprivation stress.  It is not an aeration system.

The Oxygen EdgeÔ is a special piece of fishing accessory equipment that does an extraordinary job supercharging live bait fish and  transporting live bass, walleye and crappie in closed livewell systems.

In our three test samples, the livewell freshwater temperature was a constant 86 degrees F. The dissolved oxygen concentrations were measured with a dissolved oxygen meter having a Clark Electrode.

The Control sample: normal environmental freshwater that is not aerated.

The Aerated sample: freshwater with a high volume air compressor with air tubing connected to a black soaker hose bubbling vigorously in the bait tank water prior to measuring the DO. The DO change you see on the meter is all the oxygen you get when you buy aerators, bait pumps and batteries to operate them.

The Oxygenated sample: The Oxygen EdgeÔ supercharges the freshwater simply by bubbling pure welding oxygen into the water. Low dissolved oxygen problems in hot water bait tanks are eliminated forever. The DO change you see in this sample is what you are buying for less than one cent per hour.

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