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leocom2000
02-16-2008, 7:52 PM
:angryfire:Hi everyone!!!!

I have a problem:help:, I might have too much pearling on my plants. At the end of the light day, there is a lot of bubbles in the aquarium. At the output of the filter there is a lot of gasification. Can it be bad for my plants? Nutrient absorption?:confused: My fish are doing good. I recently added a bunch of plants to my aquarium family to fight that stubborn green algae (I have a high light level), but I have had this problem since my lights were upgraded (for about a year now).
Phosphate: <0.25
Nitrate: <5
Amonia, Nitrite: 0

Thanks in advance for you input.

leocom2000
02-16-2008, 7:54 PM
Sorry, I don't know how that Angry fire got in front of the Hi

Bk718
02-16-2008, 7:57 PM
:devil:hey

Dont see pearling as anything close of being bad for plants/fish..

many want it but not all can get it

Mgamer20o0
02-16-2008, 8:06 PM
lol dont think you can have too much peraling lol. your doing something right.

Cory Keeper
02-16-2008, 9:42 PM
yeah, too much pearling is like trying to over dose on O2, can't happen. Mine will pearl like crazy with 2 fresh CO2 bottles.

msjinkzd
02-16-2008, 10:08 PM
have to tell ya, too much pearling is a post first for me. Good job!

The Zigman
02-16-2008, 10:11 PM
too much pearling is like too much money?

Fishy_Fun
02-17-2008, 7:20 AM
too much pearling is like too much money?
LMAO,
you should be fine

leocom2000
02-17-2008, 11:46 AM
Here is what I found: "Aquarium Plants Manual" by Ines Scheurmann, 1993 Barron's Educational Series Inc, English translation.
P11: "Oxygen Surplus. In very well-maintained aquariums an excess of oxygen may develop...In such cases photosynthesis ofter is carried out so quickly that the O2 content rises to more than 9milligrams per quart of water. Then the exess oxygen gradually escapes into the air. Aquarium water with such a high consentration of O2, however, no longer has sufficient nourishment for the plants..."
Is this true? This is the only place I found the info on my "problem".

lovemybarbs
02-17-2008, 12:04 PM
Mine only bubble when they get fresh water.

StereoKills
02-17-2008, 12:10 PM
Mine only bubble when they get fresh water.

Mine too, I think someone told me this was the gasses in the new water and not actual pearling though.

lovemybarbs
02-17-2008, 12:16 PM
Figures. It does it for hours though.

supajuxt
04-11-2008, 2:44 AM
Water can only hold so much dissolved O2 (the exact amount depends on the temp.) -- when you go above this point (roughly 8-9 ppm), the water starts to become supersaturated and at the same time the O2 starts to escape in the form of bubbles. So basically when you supply all of a plants needs it will thrive and produce lots of O2. When the water can't hold any more you'll see pearling.

i dont think there is such a thing as too much pearling, but i do believe there is an ideal target of 15 or somthing

FishyMatty
04-11-2008, 9:38 AM
too much pearling is like too much money?
that should have been the last statement of the post.
close it.
all was said that should be.

Bk718
04-11-2008, 10:02 AM
why close it??
I didnt get my other 2 cents in here yet..

kimmisc
04-11-2008, 10:58 AM
I'm pretty sure if this "excessive" pearling interfered with nutrient absorption, then the pearling wouldn't be "excessive" anymore. Undernourished plants wouldn't pearl so much.