Normal For Algae To Produce A Tonne Of Bubbles?

[cuticom]

I know algae does produce bubbles, just every day by the time the lights are about to turn off my tank is totally covered in small bubbles, granted I ahve more algae then most in my tank, but does algae normally produce so many bubbles?

It just seems like a rather large amount, though it does build up over the twleve hour photoperiod, I have a 150w metal halide over a 65l, 40cm high tank, no supplementary lighting.

 

[dilbert]

I have no clue but

[URL="http/www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb1.html"]http/www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb1.html[/URL]

says:

"If you have alot of algal growth in your tank such that bubbles appear on the surface of the algae, your oxygen level is likely at the saturation point."

 

[Colin_T]

when plants get sufficient light they produce oxygen. When they are producing heaps of oxygen they produce little bubbles of it that are released into the water.