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How much aeration needed?
I shouldn't think O2 would be a problem unless the tank is sparsely
planted or heavily stocked. Plenty of O2 comes in with each water change and supplements whatever O2 the plants produce. Lastly, "in my tank" I try to keep the surface agitation to a minimum. I typically keep the water level, right up to the output of the HOB filter, so the agitation is essentially none. The tank is moderately stocked/planted with pearling common especially in the 1-2 days following a water change. Pearling indicates O2 saturation of the water, right? YMMV I'd not worry about it until you notice your fish hanging out near the surface of the water. Besides, I have always wondered if you can run an air stone inline with the return water. People do it all the time with CO2,,,,,, wouldn't O2 dissolve into the water just as readily? A simple fix. Just a thought. Good Luck. http://www.geocities.com/spiral_72/home.html |
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How much aeration needed?
What is "pearling"?
Thanks, Dave "spiral_72" wrote in message oups.com... The tank is moderately stocked/planted with pearling common especially in the 1-2 days following a water change. Pearling indicates O2 saturation of the water, right? YMMV |
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How much aeration needed?
Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant.
In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. |
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How much aeration needed?
"Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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How much aeration needed?
Koi-lo wrote: "Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. |
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How much aeration needed?
"Tynk" wrote in message ups.com... Koi-lo wrote: "Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. ====================== Check my new aquarium webpage. BTW do you keep your bettas with gravel and plants? My bettas have always had gravel and plants. It's cruel to keep them any other way as I'm sure you agree. How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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How much aeration needed?
Koi-lo wrote: "Tynk" wrote in message ups.com... Koi-lo wrote: "Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. ====================== Check my new aquarium webpage. BTW do you keep your bettas with gravel and plants? My bettas have always had gravel and plants. It's cruel to keep them any other way as I'm sure you agree. How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. ====================== Check my new aquarium webpage. BTW do you keep your bettas with gravel and plants? My bettas have always had gravel and plants. It's cruel to keep them any other way as I'm sure you agree. How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? I checked your page as you suggest and I was so happy to see that most of them are in larger containers. Good job. = ) And I mean that. Yes, I agree on the plants, however gravel is not an absolute necessity, nor is it cruel not to have gravel. It's simply asthetic to the keeper's eye, brings out better coloring in any fish (one of the reasons I use gravel in all my tanks except spawning tanks), and creates more surfaces for the nitrifying bacteria to grow on. It's not going to harm the fish not to have gravel in it's tank though...it's just better in my personal opinion, but isn't being cruel if they don't have it. Yes...my single Betta tanks have plants....mostly baby Java fern shoots and when they grow too large I simply plant them in one of the larger tanks. These Java ferns sprout so many baby plants (worse than a Spider plant!) that I always have a ton to go around. They're also great for the spawning and fry growing tanks (the baby plants). I must say again, I am so happy that you have given your male Bettas the larger containers. You did right by them and didn't even say (or did you a while back when I was off line due to my neck surgery). Again, good job! = ) |
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How much aeration needed?
Koi-lo wrote: "Tynk" wrote in message ups.com... Koi-lo wrote: "Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. ====================== Check my new aquarium webpage. BTW do you keep your bettas with gravel and plants? My bettas have always had gravel and plants. It's cruel to keep them any other way as I'm sure you agree. How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? Sorry, I forgot you had asked this question..I was so excited about your boy's larger housing that I totally forgot you asked about this. When I gave to people, they were either neighbors, friends, etc andf I hardly ever charged them. However, word of mouth people that came to buy I charged a very nomimal fee and it was usually less than what the current price at the shops were. I would ask them about what size tank they would be going into, as well as explain the proper care if they didn't already know. When I was breeding with regularity (yrs ago), it wasn't like it is now. Bettas were given proper care and kept in tanks with common community fish. People hardly ever kept them in small bowls. Of course some did. However, it really wasn't the norm, nor were they even near as popular. Not even close! NetMax probably remembers this, as well as other old time hobbyists who have been in the hobby as long or longer than I have. ( since the 1970's). If somebody were to tell me that they wanted to keep it in a little bowl I would simply deny them the fish. Plain and simple. Folks who didn't already know the proper care were educated. Heck..back then I the smallest tank I can remember there being were the AllGlass 2 1/2 gallon ones. Not sure on if they were out in the 70's, as I used 5g's back then for tiny tanks. How about anyone else...I can't remember. Back then people didn't have these tiny tanks to choose from or those horrible contaptions they're selling for Bettas these days. Those clear plastic things that have an area that's almost a V shape in the middle for the Betta to be housed in. It holds like a couple/few ounces of water. These things are horribly cruel. I even stopped going to one of the local shops because he started selling these things. He got all excited when I walked in one day and couldn't wait to show me these new Betta "tanks". I did one of these faces...= O I said..I can't believe you are selling such cruel things and walked out. He knew better too. He's a local shop trying to compete with the chains around him and I'm sorry, but he could have done better than that. There's many 1g set ups with even a light that he could have sold for less money than he was selling these torture chambers for. I will say some of these things are getting a little better. Some have gotten to be a gallon or more and have these mini power filters and some even have mini fluorescent lights above them. Those are ok in a constantly warm house or for somebody in a warm climate. (when talking Bettas that is) But a couple/few ounces of water? Horrible. |
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