Re: water changes and bubbles.....

[Rich Grenfell <rgrenfell@snet.net>]

me too al, I have this happen when using warmer water. I've never had it
harm any of my fish. Sometimes, it can be from a high level of DO in the
water too.

Rich

salS wrote:
> 
> Al,
> I only have this problem in the winter when I have to use more warm water,
> in the summer time it goes away.
> For whatever it's worth..I tried a couple of experiments and it seems that
> if the water you're replacing is on the warm side you have more bubbles
> build-up, when it's cooler I have no bubbles at all. Whether this is a
> coincident or there's some scientific explanation I couldn't tell you!..
> Lastly, I never had any fish suffer from it.
> good luck
> sal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Smith <alsmith1@mindspring.com>
> To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:06 PM
> Subject: water changes and bubbles.....
> 
> > When I do a water change ...the tank seems to fill with tiny bubbles and
> > they cling to plants and sides of tanks..I put a nozzle on the end simular
> > to a watering can nozzle to try to difuse the water and no help.. reason I
> > am worried as I read somewhere that this can harm the fish as the bubbles
> > getting in there gills causing some type of an embilizem...It takes about
> an
> > hour or so for they bubbles to disapate...this just started since spring
> > time..never does it it the winter months...Is there any way to stop the
> > formatiom of these bubbles and also will these really hurt the fish..oh my
> > watersupply is well water..if that helps ....and I also see bubbles
> collect
> > on the inside of the  water hose that I fill tanks with...water paramaters
> > from tap...ph 6.6....3 dh...
> >
> > AL
> >
> >
> >
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