Too Much Oxygen

Hi all,

I've got a Waterhome 5 (5 gallon) tank and I've recently added a Hydor Ario1
airpump.
It seems to have helped my algae problem and the fish seem a lot brighter.
I have noticed though, with the light on there are a lot of bubbles
permeating the tank.
This might sound like a stupid question but, is it possible to over
oxygenate the water?
The fish seem fine, if a little skittish at times.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

regards,

Col

Col wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a Waterhome 5 (5 gallon) tank and I've recently added a Hydor Ario1
airpump.
It seems to have helped my algae problem and the fish seem a lot brighter.
I have noticed though, with the light on there are a lot of bubbles
permeating the tank.
This might sound like a stupid question but, is it possible to over
oxygenate the water?
The fish seem fine, if a little skittish at times.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

regards,

Col

Nope, but 5 gals for goldies is too small especially as it sounds like you
have more than one

Hi.....a long time ago i posted the same question about oxygen.i had
heard that too much oxygen in a aquarium can give the fish gill
problems....

but as yet no one on here seems to have heard of this...

good luck.

jay



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Col and Jay,

First, of all in my 40 plus years of fish keeping I have never heard of too
much oxygen. Second, the only way you can saturate an aquarium environment
with too much oxygen is to pressurize it, and I doubt very much there would
ever be a reason for you to pressurize an aquarium environment. You see when
an aquarium has an excess of oxygen it bleeds off to the atmosphere to
equalize with the atmosphere, so the only way to increase the oxygen level
over saturation is to alter the environment artificially.

Now there is a situation where oxygen can hurt a fish's gills, but this is
if you are using ozone, not just oxygen or air. Since producing ozone in
sufficient quantities does not normally happen I would not forsee this
happening in a hobbyist situation. If you are running ozone to your tanks
(an expensive setup) then there are precautions you have to take for the
fish not to expose to high concentrations of ozone, but here again this is
unlikely in normal situations.

Tom L.L.
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Hi.....a long time ago i posted the same question about oxygen.i had
heard that too much oxygen in a aquarium can give the fish gill
problems....

but as yet no one on here seems to have heard of this...

good luck.

jay



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Thanks tom......my mind is at ease.

i knew i had heard of oxygen problems before but was clouded on
the facts.

thanks again!

jay



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