Hi,
I keep getting bubble in my sand , how can i get this to stop ?
my waters clean and fish are all healthy.
Thanks
I keep getting bubble in my sand , how can i get this to stop ?
my waters clean and fish are all healthy.
Thanks
bubbels in sand !!??
- Thread starter The stig
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How deep is the sand? If it's deep enough, you'll grow anaerobic bacteria that will make those bubbles.
I'd tell you to stir the sand, but doing that right now might kill all your fish. You want to eventually stir all the sand every week during your water change. But first, wait until water change day this week and only stir a small corner, vacuuming the cloud of muck as it rises up from the sand and doing a good 50% water change to remove as much of the sand nasty as you can. Then refill and wait another week. Then, on that second water change, stir up the same sand you did last week without fear and also some new sand (that hasn't been stirred) around the area you already stirred, but with more vacuuming and fear. Keep going like this until you stir all the sand every week.
But this advice is based on the assumption that you nave anaerobic bacteria producing toxic gas bubbles. For all I know you have gas in your tap water that is clinging to grains at the top. Tell us more about the bubbles. How big are they? Do they eventually rise and pop? Are there a lot of them or just a few? Are they on top or within the sand?
I'd tell you to stir the sand, but doing that right now might kill all your fish. You want to eventually stir all the sand every week during your water change. But first, wait until water change day this week and only stir a small corner, vacuuming the cloud of muck as it rises up from the sand and doing a good 50% water change to remove as much of the sand nasty as you can. Then refill and wait another week. Then, on that second water change, stir up the same sand you did last week without fear and also some new sand (that hasn't been stirred) around the area you already stirred, but with more vacuuming and fear. Keep going like this until you stir all the sand every week.
But this advice is based on the assumption that you nave anaerobic bacteria producing toxic gas bubbles. For all I know you have gas in your tap water that is clinging to grains at the top. Tell us more about the bubbles. How big are they? Do they eventually rise and pop? Are there a lot of them or just a few? Are they on top or within the sand?
Thanks ill do this , and the sand on some places where the fish have moved it is around 4"+ alround i would say , atleast 2".
There is a lot of sand in there.
thanks for the reply mate,
There is a lot of sand in there.
thanks for the reply mate,
Oh and the bubbles are only small about this big ---> ... (as big as the 3 dots) at the largest, and iive seen one or to come throw the sand .
If the sand gets moved regularly, they probably aren't "toxic" bubbles which are usually larger that a dot as well. But if some areas have been solid for a long time, I'd do the weekly stirring anyway to keep it from happening.
I'd say let it happen and be a deep sand bed denitrator, but you have fish that dig which screws the whole thing up.
I'd say let it happen and be a deep sand bed denitrator, but you have fish that dig which screws the whole thing up.
yeah don't mess with it if it's NO2 bubbles bully for your setup
that means you done real good
you're prossessing Nitrate into Nitrogen Gas
If it's not NO2, then it's completely harmless, if not actually healthy
that means you done real good
you're prossessing Nitrate into Nitrogen Gas
If it's not NO2, then it's completely harmless, if not actually healthy