There's a long straight line of bubbles going to the top of my tank. I don't have an airstone in there lol. It is heavily planted. I'm having trouble deciding whether it's co2, or oxygen? How can you tell? I'm having trouble telling if it's coming from the substrate itself, or if the gas is coming from the anarcharis?
Any info is greatly appreciated!
2007-09-10 16:16:09 · 5 answers · asked by revernance 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
I noticed this when I added a new fluorescent light to my tank. I hope it's co2 coming from the fermentation process in the substrate! That means free co2 for my plants!
2007-09-10 16:17:35 · update #1
Have you done a water change recently? It could just be bubbles of air from the compressed water from your tap if you added it straight to the tank.
Anacharis would produce noticeable bubbles (oxygen) as part of photosynthesis if you have enough of it and your lights are on.
If you don't use a CO2 injector, hope it's not this - if you have fermentation going on, this only happens in anaerobic conditions and you don't want this in your tank! This would be rare unless you have a deep substrate that's fine-grained (sand sized, or smaller) or use an undergravel filter that's in serious need of cleaning.
PS - the wording of your question is a real attention getter!
2007-09-10 16:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is a steady small bubble stream almost barely noticeable, I would assume you are seeing the plant converting the co2 into o2 (oxygen) otherwise known as "pearling" if you can, follow that stream down and you might find it coming from the edge of a leaf. If so, you will find it on alot of leaves even on the underside.
If this is a steady stream from your substrate, might have some gases built up in there and they finally found an out. I used a dowel rod or a stick in my tank and found some big pockets in the substrate and it is a never ending cycle. I can't tell you if it is methane gas or whatever., but it is definitely not co2 if it is from the substrate.
2007-09-10 23:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by tanked 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any bubbles coming out of the substraight is not a good sign and is very likly sulphur dioxide produced by anaerobic bacteria which grows in stagnent conditions with no air or water movement Oxygen wound be released directly from the plant leaves Co2 would only be released when the plants had not lighting.Do not release all the trapped gas in your substraight at the same time by stiring it or you may kill yor fish Do a little bit each day untill you get it all releasd.Note the smell of the gas being released it will probably smell like rotten eggs
2007-09-11 17:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by bob m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its more than likely just trapped gasses being let out by the bacteria living in your gravel and you can get rid of it by stirring up your gravel. if its a small tank chopsticks work great if you don't want to stick your hands all the way in to move it around. I am thinking your tank is signalling that it could probably use a gravel vacuum right about now though.
anacharis will release bubbles from the leaves -- i don't think they would release bubbles from the roots.
if you have only anacharis you don't need co2 anyway.
2007-09-11 00:06:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have gas coming from my rear too....it is just a fart, dont worry about it its natural
2007-09-11 18:10:54 · answer #5 · answered by Sally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋