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Breathing Bags (7x14") 25 Pack

Kordon

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Kordon Breathing Bags are a completely new approach to the shipping of live fishes, as well as aquatic invertebrates and aquatic plants, in plastic bags. The special plastic film used in the Breathing Bags generates the constant transfer of carbon dioxide out of the water in the bag through the walls of the bag, and the absorption of oxygen from the atmosphere through the bag walls into the water in the bag. This provides a constant source of fresh oxygen that fish and other aquatic specimens use to breathe.

Kordon Breathing Bags represent a new approach to the problems of shipping live fishes and other aquatic animals and aquatic plants, including over long distances or for extended time periods. The product development staff at Kordon, teamed with plastics chemical engineers, have taken a technology first developed in space/military research and refined it to produce the bags being offered today.

How the Unique Breathing Bag Film Works:

The Breathing Bags are constructed of a special film that has a micro-porosity that allows the transfer of simple and complex gas molecules through the plastic wall of the bag. Carbon dioxide and oxygen in particular, as well as other gases - are constantly passing through the plastic bag via the micro-porosity. In other words - the plastic has gaps so small that water molecules cannot pass through - yet gas molecules can move freely. This provides a true "breathing" bag in place of a non-porous "barrier" bag as is used in traditional plastic polyethylene bags. As long as there is a breathable atmosphere outside the Breathing Bag, the fish or animals inside will not run out of oxygen.

Carbon dioxide exits the bags at 4 times the rate oxygen enters the bags, thereby constantly purging the water of toxic carbon dioxide, and allowing oxygen to replace it in the water. Kordon has shipped millions of bags around the world (termed "Sachets") containing living foods (tubifex worms, brine shrimp, daphnia, glass worms, etc.) for aquarium fishes using the Breathing Bag technology. Hundreds of thousands of Breathing Bags have been used successfully to ship fishes, coral reef animals, and aquatic plants.