Just wondering if anybody has this installed in their boat? If so, any feedback?

Do it and thank me later. They work. Period. They especially help in summer months. Fish are super active with live-well vents as they allow the gases to escape. I have done my own tests and they work like a charm. I don't use sure life anymore or ice, don't need them with VT-2

+1 ^^^^

Thanks gents! Just wanted to make sure before I go cutting holes in boat.

Enjoy. They are awesome.

I have them, I can't say for sure it has made a noticeable difference. But mentally it helps me think it is helping the fish in the heat of the summer and eases my nervousness about my fish dying. I still use ice and other products in the summer.

what kind of tests, curious...

Tried without anything, then adding sure life only, then livewell vents with sure life then livewell vents only. Fish did great with live-well vents. Poorly with nothing. This was in summer. Best time to test Is summer. Live-well vents work wonders.

no real tests?

Such as? Does it get anymore real than putting fish in a livewell all day and observing them at end of day? Ya know, like a tournament scenario.

$45.00 is ridiculous! Buy two of these for 14 bucks and install them in your lids ... now you have vents and rod holders if you ever needed them.

Plumbing drain covers work too. Not these ^^^^^^^^

I installed a set. Found them on BBC discounted. Haven't lost any fish yet.

yes it does actually. observation is not a test. did you do any water quality tests, read dissolved o2, etc?

I figured for $45, why not? I ordered them and installed them on my new boat last week. My partner and I experienced worst case scenario a couple of years ago in TX Shootout. Penalty was a pound for a dead fish- cost us thousands. I am trying to avoid cutting into livewells on this boat to install direct bottled O2, and am hoping these will help me avoid that. Either way, can't hurt.

I'm not a scientist and don't make stuff more difficult than it is..... so no. I just fish.

I would say that real world observation is plenty good of a test for me.

The v12 vents work super well. een using them for 3 years and very happy with them and knock on wood never lost any fish. You will like them.

I have used them for a few years they work great especially in hot summer .

Yep ^^^^^^^

I haven't had a fish die in the livewell in the last 5 years. I don't have any vents so seems real world proof for me that they aren't needed.

Good for you

Who cares about scientific testing results. If they work for you and you believe in them then that's all that matters.

They work great product, price may seem high but worth it in the end.

I do. I have done the tests. I hate to see anglers scammed into buying something that does nothing.

So what do you do to help with fish care Senko (I think I know, but will let you answer)?

they work

I use an oxygen tank in conjunction with a good venturi system when I have a bunch of fish in the well.

The V-T2 sounds like it would have a slight affect but if you run your livewell on full time its not going to affect it much. The venturi system puts extra air into the livewell and its going to get out through any spaces that are available. If you're not running the air exchange is not going to be much anyway.

I have run no tests but the oxygen system is the best out there. A good venturi recirculation is the next.

Livewell Oygen Injection

And I don't mean Oxygenator

I think some of us are failing to see the big picture. This should not be an argument. I am all for anything that helps fish survive in live-wells whether it's using ice, VT-2's or oxygen added to the water or products like Please Release Me....... I am a fan of more fish surviving and am trying to do whatever I can to help and play my part in that. The VT-2's are $45, that's not expensive. Let's all slow down and think big picture here folks.

I just ordered a set from Tackle Warehouse. Will be installing when I get back in town.

Awesome Matt!! Love mine!

Debra

If there is no appreciable difference then you are buying snake oil.

Trying to do the right thing with disregard of it making no difference is still doing nothing'.

I don't see how allowing fresh air to go into the live well and letting bad gas inside the well vent off is a bad thing, especially hot air. It's like the car with windows rolled down or up in the summer when parked... It gets hotter when the windows are up. They look good enough for me, will be on the list for the Blazer soon.

I don't either. I just don't understand people being against them. It's amazing. At least people are making an effort. I'm not sponsored by them. I'm just an idiot who saw they made a huge difference in my fish in the live well. No ice, no nothing, just added them and the fish were very lively compared to a few weeks prior when I had a fish die in live-well without the vents. I think we need some perspective here people.

I'm not against them....but without scientific data I am not buying it.

I don't think any livewell lid is truly air tight.

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May I ask a question: do you run a Ranger or use Oxygenator?

I have a Ranger and the Oxygenator was installed before I bought my boat.

I have had fish in the livewell with and without it on......not sure I can tell a difference.

I'm not bashing them or you if you have them but there are so many things sold just to play on people's conscience.....I'm not rushing to buy them until I see some significant data proving they are valuable.

Thanks, I appreciate your line of thinking and your comments. I guess there are 2 things I struggle with though. 1. They're only $45, so they're not an expensive item like if they were $445. 2. I have read many, many instances of real-world tests and seen it with my own eyes of people who are not sponsored (myself included), that simply added them and saw a HUGE difference in the condition of their fish, ESPECIALLY in summer when it's hot. I guess I am failing to see what further proof you need and if seeing for yourself is not enough. And please know, I am for someone running an Oxygenator if that's what they want to do to try and help fish care. I just don't understand people who are so vehemently against them.

Note: there also seems to be a common thread between those people who are strongly against the vents and them running Rangers and Oxygentors, but I haven't yet figured out why. Just a fact I've noticed, but can't find a correlation.

These things have been out long enough that opinions are formed. I doubt anyone is going to change their mind. You either see it as $45 and money well spent or a company charging $45 for something that costs a few bucks to produce and with no tangible impacts.

From the time I first read of them I felt like more air was exchanged by simply culling fish and the opening/closing of the lids than what these can introduce by the small diameter opening.

Using the analogy of the windows of a hot car... Are you going to crack them and let air exchange, or are you going to roll them down?

Any issue with a partner stepping on them and it breaking. Are they tuff enough?

yes, no problems, they're flush with the floor

My buddy has them in his Triton and I was back seating with him in a tournament. I stepped on them and messed with them and they seem pretty solid. They actually have a little flex to them which I think is what is supposed to make them hard to break. The rib things just flex slightly under weight.

No dog in this fight, but wouldn't a 4" brass drain grate do the job for less?

Probably. I had this same thought.

A for profit company is charging $45 for a product that costs them way less to make? Why would they do that?.

If you run your livewell full time and you take air from the outside like many good venturi systems do you are in effect forcing the air inside the livewell to leave all the time.

In a tournament situation in the heat of the summer you should be able to take a temp sensor and put it inside the livewell and observe the temps then block the vent and see what the temp difference is. I would be shocked if it was more than a degree or two while the boat is fishing. While on plane it could assist more.

I'll be adding some to my boat with my next TW order. It gets very hot in the livewell around here in the middle of summer, this system would greatly assist.

insulate

My live wells do just fine not have a giant hole cut through the fiberglass. When I start killing fish I will look for other methods. Until then its recirculate with Please Release me until noon. Then I put in all freshwater for 25 minutes and then recirculate with PRM for the next 3 hours. Never have killed a fish.

This. You can say these have no benefit or value, but they do make a non-arguable difference. They vent your live well. If someone thinks that is worth $45, then let them pay it. Who are you to get mad at how they spend their money?

I can very much vouch for their usefulness. I have not lost a fish one since installing them. A little Please Release Me and the vents are all I need on a tournament day to keep the fish happy. Not to mention, I can SEE that they work. Before installing them in the summer my live wells would be hell to drain and dry out and would leave my carpet wet on the lids. After installing them I noticed that within the the afternoon and night (again, I'm talking summer) that the live wells were condensating and starting to dry on their own. I mention the condensation because of those that claim they do noting.

Those vents allow the hot air to rise that creates the condensation, thus, even if minuscule, they do allow more hot air out of the live well while the fish are in there.

Good for you

Debra

Had 4 bass by 0930 weighin started at 12, all four very active, weigh in person Monte Reagan asked if we just caught them due to being very lively. First time use. Very easy install, just directions on u tube. Price is ridiculous but what isn't on a bass boat?

Im still laughing about the REAL test comment. I'm pretty daggum sure the equipment to measure dissolved oxygen content (which is the oxygen fish can use) costs waaaaay more than $45. Its also the only thing it does. Just how many times has he HAD to use it to perform tests?? Enough to justify the cost of it , I'M sure. I suppose I'm now going to have to spend another $4337.39 to buy a dissolved oxygen meter, a gas-fired electro magnetic spurbifier, a carbon dioxide meter, an ammonia meter & an autochromatic feegulated fish poot detector to know without any doubt that my $45 VT-2 vents work. Kinda like a $400 lure. You can NOT catch the fish on that $8.99 crankbait that the high dollar bait catches.
Im sorry, I might get banned for this one , but i couldnt resist.

If u believe in them buy them. They wont be on my boat unless they are free. But that just my opinion.

In the heat of summer I mix Catch and Release in a Gatorade bottle and freeze. Take the lid off and let it melt as I recirculate. Keeps water cool and will allow the cooler water to hold more dissolved oxygen.

I use them & i feel anything that allows bad gasses & heat to escape & be replaced with cooler clean air is beneficial. I guess thats just the old firefighter in me. A simple floating thermometer in my livewell on a windless, HOT August day, on a south Texas lake dropped temp in MY livewells over 10 degrees after i installed them. I think they help. Along with G-juice frozen in gatorade bottles for slow release & cooling,&continuous recirculation. Tight lines & safe trips to everyone.

Just at tell your co angler: Dont drink the blue gatorade with no labels on them. LOL!!!

I have a new one from Tacle warehouse for sale if anyone is interested. $35 shipped

Could've fooled me...

Gene Gilliland who is the conservation director for BASS told me it is the best $40 you can invest. That is good enough for me.

Still have a new one for sale
Text/cell: 717-713-4218

^^^ This..^^^^ Glad my "Bug" has em on her live well lids.

Debra