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While fishing a tournament last Saturday I had the unfortunate experience of losing my cranking battery...and killing my two slot reds (live and learn).  It was my fault, I had either the recirculation pump or fill pump on 100% of the time and only cranked up and moved twice in 6 hours, and both times were very short distances.  My question is, if I wanted to put a timer on my livewell, what options do I have?  Has anyone done it?  Are there other options out there?  Pics would be great also.  

Also, the Louisiana Saltwater Series allows us to bring in extra fish for tagging, which I store in the port release well.  It has worked before without a problem, however, last weekend I noticed the fish were able to knock the drain tube out thus draining all of the water out.  Does anyone have a simple fix for this issue also?  

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I installed a Bass Pro brand live well aerator timer on my live well several years ago and it works great and will save your batteries. Cost about $45 and was simple to install. It has variable cycles that you can adjust, example: it runs 3 minutes off 3..... Runs 7 minutes,...off 7 , etc. go online to Bass Pro and put in live well aerator timer..... There are several other brands available. 

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In that LA heat and low oxygen environment they often die even with the well running all day. Id look into a house battery setup before doing a timer. The fix for the drain tube popping out would be to specifiy one that screws in, which i did on my new boat. I can run 2 livewells all day and the radio without ever having an issue. I have my cranking and house setup on a blue seas relay which works much like a stealth charging system

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3 hours ago, linesider 159 said:

In that LA heat and low oxygen environment they often die even with the well running all day. Id look into a house battery setup before doing a timer. The fix for the drain tube popping out would be to specifiy one that screws in, which i did on my new boat. I can run 2 livewells all day and the radio without ever having an issue. I have my cranking and house setup on a blue seas relay which works much like a stealth charging system

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