Total gas pressure and oxygen and nitrogen saturation in warmwater ponds aerated with airlift pumps |
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Authors: | Nick C Parker Mary Anna Suttle Karen Fitzmayer |
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Institution: | US Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeastern Fish Cultural Laboratory, Marion, Alabama 36756, USA |
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Abstract: | Gas bubble disease and improper inflation of swim bladders in larval striped bass Morone saxatilis have been recently related in laboratory studies to very low levels of gas supersaturation. In other species, kills resulting from gas supersaturation have been reported in natural waters as large as Galveston Bay. We monitored warmwater ponds during spring to determine the extent of naturally occurring gas supersaturation and compared these levels with levels of gas saturation in ponds equipped with airlift pumps. Total gas pressure averaged 110% in the morning at the surface of non-aerated ponds and in the afternoon in ponds with airlift pumps. At other times of the day total gas pressure averaged 106–107% at the surface and bottom, morning and afternoon, in both aerated and non-aerated ponds. No evidence of gas bubble disease was found in 15-day-old striped bass fry cultured for 42 days in either aerated or non-aerated ponds. |
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