Originally Posted By: Greg Grimes
Cecil we run 1% salt all the time. It helps both with osmoitc and slime coat. Temp make a huge diff what you can do today and in mid summer at 85 degree temps not the same, so consider if trasfer later. Yes run all the time once you get a couple bass in the water. You will not get more than ~22 gallons of water in that cooler in the boat without spilling quite a bit. In this water temp with aerator and salt easy to hold those numbers of bass though.


Well if that works for you Greg that's fine but all the literature I read says not to go over 0.8 percent as that is the blood level of the salt in the fishes blood. Not disagreeing with you as you have a lot more experience than I do.

In combination with handling stress, salt concentrations 10 g/l (1.0%) or greater could be harmful to fish during live transport. Fish blood is a 9 g/l salt solution, higher concentrations in hauling water cause the loss of water from blood (osmosis) while salts from the transport solution diffuse into the blood. This could cause fish to become dehydrated. A 10 g/l salt solution is approximately 10% higher than blood (9 g/l) and could create a 10% dehydration during transport. It is generally accepted that a 10% dehydration can be lethal to most vertebrates. Therefore, it would be advisable to use transport solutions containing less than 9 g/l salt. An 8 g/l sodium chloride solution matches blood sodium content and is slightly lower than 9 g/l; preventing dehydration and shock by keeping kidneys active and salt loss low.

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