Creating Oxygen

[DubaiPond]

I use a circular airstone and put a big peice of drift wood or a stone over the top of it. This disrupts the regimented pattern of the bubble and gives - to my mind- a more pleasant effect. It also ensures a fair amount of gas exchange goes on I think.

 

[sostoudt]

sostoudt-------I am sorry just saying that I sounded like a A hole.

i was just wondering how someone would go about actually CREATING oxygen and then get it in there tank?

As you said --- none of the methods listed actually created oxygen, but they just helped with gas exchange. Which is completely true if you get very technical about the subject.

IMO all we can really do is use the available atmospheric oxygen levels thru gas exchange.

Although i have allways wondered about using compressed oxygen and injecting it like we do with planted tanks and CO2.

im sure you could inject oxygen and get a high level, it probably would be great for injured fish just like it is for injured people

plants in a tank will actually create oxygen from the co2 in the water, but then at night they use oxygen and create co2. im pretty sure this is a net gain in oxygen tho.

there is also ozone injection, it somehow cleans the water more. then that breaks down into oxygen i believe

 

[Monolicious]

I am just running 2 Eheim canister filter a 2028 and a 2076 both are agitating the surface of the water and I was just wondering if this would be sufficient.

 

[sostoudt]

I am just running 2 Eheim canister filter a 2028 and a 2076 both are agitating the surface of the water and I was just wondering if this would be sufficient.

i would think you would be ok as long as the return is positioned so the water coming out is exposed to air, that water that comes out of the canisters(assuming its not a wetdry one) is probably the lowest in oxygen when compared to the rest of the tank since the bacteria in the canister use oxygen and theres no gas exchange after entering.

why are your fish displaying signs of oxygen deprivation?

 

[Monolicious]

i would think you would be ok as long as the return is positioned so the water coming out is exposed to air, that water that comes out of the canisters(assuming its not a wetdry one) is probably the lowest in oxygen when compared to the rest of the tank since the bacteria in the canister use oxygen and theres no gas exchange after entering.

why are your fish displaying signs of oxygen deprivation?

No not really, It's just I recently removed a power head that was running a venturi and just wanted to get opinions weather or not the canisters would create enough for the fish in the tank. The spray bars are above the water line and the water is coming in contact with air before entering the tank.

 

[sostoudt]

No not really, It's just I recently removed a power head that was running a venturi and just wanted to get opinions weather or not the canisters would create enough for the fish in the tank. The spray bars are above the water line and the water is coming in contact with air before entering the tank.

then it should be fine especially for stuff like spray bays where it insures a high level of oxygen contact