mellowvision
Seafood Lover
yeah, my guess is that plant death doesn't come from shade in that instance, but from the string being too tight or breaking the stem.
Hornwort
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All, I saw the coolest thing today. I was kind of gazing into my planted shrimp tank, checking on what I could move/tweak, when I saw some bubbles coming from somewhere. I realized that they were coming from the broken stem of some Hornwort. It was the coolest thing as these tiny bubbles just kept flowing out of the stem, constantly, like a miniature air hose. I know plants create/release oxygen, but to see it release in that amount was impressive.
I took some pictures and a little bit of video, but it was hard to get a fast enough iso in macro mode to really freeze the action. I'll post a pic or two if I find one that shows the action.
I took some pictures and a little bit of video, but it was hard to get a fast enough iso in macro mode to really freeze the action. I'll post a pic or two if I find one that shows the action.
mellowvision
Seafood Lover
yeah, that's rad. there are spots on my anubias that snails have eaten, and they leak o2 as well, in very steady streams. another proud moment was seeing some glosso do it from a broken root... granted the root was about 2" off the substrate! lol
mellowvision
Seafood Lover
That's called streaming, and it's different from pearling. It occurs when a plant is damaged, as you have noticed. Just wanted you to put a name with what is happening.
What MG's picture shows is pearling.
That's called streaming, and it's different from pearling. It occurs when a plant is damaged, as you have noticed. Just wanted you to put a name with what is happening.
Cool, thanks for the info Sammie7, I wasn't aware of the term or phenomena of streaming. I'm well aware of pearling, that was one of the "hooks" that pulled me into this obsession.
