Bubbles on surface

[Derek]

Lately, I have noticed a lot of air bubbles sticking to the sides of
the aquarium.
I have 2 air pump of each 1800litres/hour capacity for my 50 gallons
pump. I have 7 adult goldfish.
What could be the reasons for these tiny bubbles, looks similar to
soap bubbles though. Will it affect the oxygen intake of the fish.
Regards.
Derek.

[Derek]

So sorry for the error, pump should read 50 gallons tank.
Rgds.
Derek
(Derek) wrote:

>Lately, I have noticed a lot of air bubbles sticking to the sides of
>the aquarium.
>I have 2 air pump of each 1800litres/hour capacity for my 50 gallons
>pump. I have 7 adult goldfish.
>What could be the reasons for these tiny bubbles, looks similar to
>soap bubbles though. Will it affect the oxygen intake of the fish.
>Regards.
>Derek.

[Jim Brown]

Derek > wrote in message
...
> So sorry for the error, pump should read 50 gallons tank.
> Rgds.
> Derek
> (Derek) wrote:
>
> >Lately, I have noticed a lot of air bubbles sticking to the sides of
> >the aquarium.
> >I have 2 air pump of each 1800litres/hour capacity for my 50 gallons
> >pump. I have 7 adult goldfish.
> >What could be the reasons for these tiny bubbles, looks similar to
> >soap bubbles though. Will it affect the oxygen intake of the fish.
> >Regards.
> >Derek.
>

With 3,600 litres of air pumping through your 50 gallon aquarium every hour,
I am surprised you can even see the goldfish with that much turbidity. I am
hoping the figures you provided are off by a decimal place or two.
If those pumps are really pushing the air, you could be looking at bubbles
caused by saturation. You might want to omit one of the airpumps to see of
the bubbles go away.

Jim

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no.. you cannot achieve supersaturation just pushing air into the tank with regular
high volume low pressure air pumps. the aeration is excellent for your fish.
perhaps you have some proteins in the tank that are forming those bubbles. most
common cause is spawning but a heavy load of organics will do it too.
http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/puregold/more2.html#spawning
Ingrid

(Derek) wrote:

>Lately, I have noticed a lot of air bubbles sticking to the sides of
>the aquarium.
>I have 2 air pump of each 1800litres/hour capacity for my 50 gallons
>pump. I have 7 adult goldfish.
>What could be the reasons for these tiny bubbles, looks similar to
>soap bubbles though. Will it affect the oxygen intake of the fish.
>Regards.
>Derek.



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[Derek]

Jim, that's what was written on the powerhead "titanic" pump.
1800 L/hour.
Last time I used to have only 1 pump installed, the water goes turbid within a couple of
days changing new water. Even now I changed my tank 90% every week.
Otherwise, the water smells and it is bad for feng shui.
Earlier on I too suspected spawning, but one of my goldfish who was really big in
the belly died of fins rot and the next day the water was really foul with the surface all
covered with bubbles. I changed and clean the tank 100%.
regards.
Derek
"Jim Brown" > wrote:

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