Bubbles Coming From My Subtrate?

[bollands]

everytime i stir it it realses a few bubbles is this methane from clogged detrius, shall i get a sand movver to resolve the problem?

 

[kj23502]

wow. Maybe you shouldn't stir it. How deep is your sand?

 

[bollands]

its about 1 AND A HALF INCH

 

[seffieuk]

its about 1 AND A HALF INCH

that is quite a lot of sand - i only have half an inch of sand. Get yourself some more sand shifting cuc

Seffie x

 

[jtnova13]

An inch and a half doesn't seem that high, I am with seffie though, i have about a half inch.

Fighting conchs, nassarius snails, sand sifting gobies would keep your substrate turned over.

A gobie can choke on big pieces of substrate though so make sure yours is small enough.

 

[Crazy fishes]

I very much doubt it is methane, it probably is related to respiratory i.e carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen gas from nitrate reduction. You could test it by stirring the sand to release the gas and hold a naked flame near the water surface where the bubbles emerge. If you lose your eye brows then it probably is methane however I think the more probable result will be extinguishing the flame.

Hope this helps

Joe

 

[Gallagher]

I very much doubt it is methane, it probably is related to respiratory i.e carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen gas from nitrate reduction. You could test it by stirring the sand to release the gas and hold a naked flame near the water surface where the bubbles emerge. If you lose your eye brows then it probably is methane however I think the more probable result will be extinguishing the flame.

Hope this helps

Joe

I can only see that ending in tears....



and yet another burn mark on bollands ceiling lol


James

 

[bollands]

yes i am quite the unlucky piromaniac so keep me away from matches, the last incident ended up with smoke filling the house and not being able to see 2 foot in front of your face scary event.

 

[kj23502]

wow...you're about as bad as my brother. Filing a 2 liter bottle w/gasoline and suspending it over a bonfire. Some INSANE fire balls

Anyway, what do you have for cuc now?

 

[bollands]

just some snails and hermits snails might be nass but they are big and they are blind, cortousy of puffer now past away

 

[kj23502]

IF they bury in the sand and rarely come out, or only come out when the tank is fed, they are nassarius snails. I don't remember if cerith bury or not.... astraea don't bury.

 

[bollands]

they do bury but hardly come out

 

[Crazy fishes]

How big is the tank?

 

[bollands]

128L