Effect of Micro/Nano-bubbles on Algae?

[Chris Adams]

I was wondering if anyone knows a good article or thread about the effects of microbubbles on algae?

I am interested to see if the bubbles will have any positive effect on the Algae?
I finally put my limewood airstone in so will be watching my tank closer than usual (ultra-anal-mode ha ha).

Will it make it grow faster?
Will it make it weaker and cause it to detach from rock work, snail shells?
Here you can see the bubbles on the algae. This is after I ran the airstone for 1 hour. Any and all algae has the bubbles which stay attached for a decent amount of time even after I turn off airstone.

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[Chris Adams]

@Afishionado
Do you have any other videos or anything where you discuss nano bubbles further. I did read your July article but will need to re-read :)

Looking for info around effects on Algae?

Stumbled upon this video reading @jsker thread t5/led comparison.

 

[Afishionado]

Hi @Chris Adams . No, I do not but I will ask Mike next time i see him for you. (Hopefully tomorrow at MACNA)

 

[brandon429]

been bubbling my corals for sixteen years (a bubble only pico w lps and sps and algae at times) and its independent of algae issues.

there could be stasis changes in one way or another that makes a certain spot recede or grow, but in the end nobody is managing algae correction threads with bubbles of any type and my system is solely bubble driven to confirm. algae is natural in the reef tank and on the most pristine reef if you section off a portion of the reef, in pure waters, from grazers, algae grows.

In the wild grazers control things because algae are set to grow at all nutrient levels, we should strive for better grazing and share portions of our usable bioloading with active algae eaters. until attained, hand removal and making algae go away within one day is whats running giant correction threads, or plant arrangement threads that take time and vary but use totally natural systems (ATS) to try and outcompete algae. In the wild, its grazers.

 

[Chris Adams]

I do not have algae issue(couple little spots here and there and on some snail shells) I am just wondering if nano-bubbling has shown to have any results negative or positive on Algae.

If I understand you correctly you are saying you could not correlate positive or negative algae results to nano bubbling?
I just find it interesting that bubbles will stick for hours sometimes and wondering if that would effect the structure.
Thank you for the feedback @brandon429
And for the Video Richard

 

[brandon429]

agreed I could find no significance after lengthy watching and that includes coral growth, I know Cruz's thread is big on changes in corals from bubbling but again we have fast sps growth in other non bubbled systems, in the end its just my opinion the corals are adapted to bubbles vs non bubbles and flow variations such that its all relative to nutrients and light and currents even if not via fizzy lifting bubbles. They certainly never caused any harm in my tank, look how far back we were chatting about them:

http://www.reefs.org/forums/topic27584.html

 

[Chris Adams]

Thanks.
Yes it has been around for a while from what I read. Will actually go through that thread thanks.
I am just testing it on my IM38.

 

[brandon429]

if I had a nice large tank id for sure have a bubble control mechanism for it, they are part of the surging reef display in the wild and I like all aspects of them! I don't think they irritate fish either, nobody is having that prob in cruz's threads that was just our stone age guessing back then lol. dawn of pico reefing time that was

 

[Chris Adams]

Thanks again @brandon429 Started reading that thread will need to go through it further. 2003 :)

 

[Cruz_Arias]

Like @brandon429 mentioned, aeration is no new concept... but utilizing smaller and smaller bubbles are for specific applications, such as detritus removal and maintenance assist in clearing up particulate matter in the water column.

The very nature of aeration just compounds the benefits of increasing oxygenation and degassing more efficiently than with the use of bigger bubbles. But once again not a new concept, just a new application of smaller and smaller bubbles.

I personally have been in the hobby since '95 and have utilized lots of "surge devices", aeration methods, etc. degassing and oxygenation assist in the chemical stability of the water chemistry in the aquarium be it saltwater or fresh.

The "claims" are not my own... they are OBSERVATIONS by many people employing the method from better growth (Possibly due to higher clarity of water for better light penetration) to pH stability (Possibly driving off excess metabolic gases such as CO2)

The main ingredients to success are these two characteristics:

***FRESH AIR*** and ***VERY VERY FINE BUBBLES***

:)

 

[Cruz_Arias]

Ahhh yes... remember one more thing... Algae (like all plants) enjoy having higher CO2 levels in the water column...

So... if you drive off the excess CO2 from the water column, there would be little available for the algae to consume. :)

Also, do not worry about the corals... approximately 70% of the CO2 used by the coral zooxanthella is produced internally (within the membrane of the coral) by the coral host's own metabolism.
They do not need environmental CO2 to continue to calcify. :)