It's top water turbulence that puts oxygen in the water, not your air stone.

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Trader Will

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I just figured i'd bring this up because I think there are probably a lot of people out there who don't know this. According to what i've been reading it's not the bubbles in the water from your air stone that oxygenates the water, it's those bubbles breaking the surface tension, causing ripples, that puts oxygen in the water.
 
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herbalife

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Along the same vein, ceramic micropore air stones that make tons of tiny tiny bubbles will oxygenate the water better than large bubbles, again due to the larger surface area when they pop at the surface.
 
mike91sr

mike91sr

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Dude where are you coming up with this stuff? How is oxygen UNABLE to dissolve while inside thousands of tiny bubbles being pushed through water, but somehow it can be forced downwards into the water?

To the second post, explain to me how smaller bubbles(more surface area) allows water to hold more oxygen. It speeds up the rate of dissolution, not the solubility. And increasing rate of dissolution does NOTHING if you've already reached maximum dissolution, which we can all agree is SUPER easy to do in a 5gal bucket.

To the last post, yes flooming gets the highest DO levels of any method, but as you're not flowing atmospheric air through your water solution at all times, the total oxygen present is lower than with airstones, even though less is actually dissolved. So it works, gets super high DO, but don't say its better than something else when its clearly not.

0/3 in this thread.
 
ihavealotofquestions

ihavealotofquestions

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someone here on riu has a whole thread about do.. said same do levels with an airstone or not, maybe different by a .1 but that's not much. i agree that more rapidly aerating airstones would def. make a difference but could an oxygen tank possibly be hooked up with a slow leak to an airpumps intake & help also? lol
 
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