Thread: Portable oxygen system

BRM

bought my regulator, hose, and ceramic diffusor from keepalive.net and someone gave me the cylinder. Keeps you from loosing bait and keeps them healthy. I can swap it over to the live well if im trying to keep fish alive.

I use the medical version of the above mentioned system. The key is the ceramic diffuser instead of air stones. The ceramic diffuser puts back pressure on the bottle and doesn't use near as much oxygen because the oxygen is being Forced through the ceramic diffuser for smaller bubbles which infuse the oxygen into the water better. An air stone pretty much lets the oxygen free flow through the stone and uses 3-4x the oxygen because the bubbles are much bigger and the water can't catch as much of the bigger oxygen bubbles before they dissipate out of the water.

In cold water, I don't use the oxygen as much. Cold water holds oxygen longer. Warm to hot water let's the oxygen escape faster because the water molecules are moving much faster and releases the oxygen.

Water temps have little to do with keeping fish or bait alive. The critical part is to keep plenty of oxygen in the water. Cooling down the water helps hold the oxygen more than it keeps the fish alive. We've all caught shallow fish in the summer when the surface temps were in the low to mid 90's. Those fish were plenty healthy when they were caught because the lake water hold lots of oxygen and doesn't get depleted.


BRM

Originally Posted by bird down

bought my regulator, hose, and ceramic diffusor from keepalive.net and someone gave me the cylinder. Keeps you from loosing bait and keeps them healthy. I can swap it over to the live well if im trying to keep fish alive.

Which size bottle did you get?

I've got all three size bottles used for torch o2... depending on what I'm doing and for how long as to which I use. It's critical that you get a regulator that you can turn down to 1/32. The 1-2-3-4 regulators will work but you burn your oxygen way faster than necessary. Let me know if you need a regulator. I know a guy...

Ceramic is the only way to go on the diffuser. Don't even worry with an air stone. You won't be happy.


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Ducker found regulators online for 20 bucks. That's a deal. His go down to 32nds. I use a pediatric regulator on my medical bottles that measures in 64ths.

He bought his diffuser from me.


BRM

Very good! Sometimes they are hard to find.


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Agree with everyone else,if you order one from keep alive I believe they give a discount if you tell them you fish tournaments.

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