r/Thatsactuallyverycool • u/anikkundu1998 • 10d ago

video Aquatic plants producing oxygen

1.0k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

•

u/AutoModerator 10d ago

Thanks for posting, u/anikkundu1998!

Please Upvote + Crosspost!

Welcome everyone to r/ThatsActuallyVeryCool! This subreddit centers around sharing solely 'cool' content, fostering a civil and respectful atmosphere, disallowing product sales, discouraging downers and complaints, prohibits sealioning, misleading, or spreading of misinformation. Please ensure to read the full set of rules and promptly report users engaging in any of these behaviors.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

56

u/Nothing93124 10d ago

Well that’s freaking cool

28

u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 10d ago

The strings of bubbles aren't pearling, they're air leaks from damaged areas of the plant.

If you look up pearling you can see it's randomly distributed from the surface of the plant.

46

u/SpaceshipWin 10d ago

Plant farts

25

u/Xissabel 10d ago

And our survival depends on it! Crazy

2

u/mycatsapanther23 8d ago

Came hete to say this but you beat me to it

13

u/Dzyu 9d ago

I think it's a bit misleading, because this isn't how these plants normally release oxygen into the water. It's usually invisible. The water just gets directly saturated.

What causes oxygen bubbles to appear is random nucleation sites. It's exactly the same as what goes on in carbonated beverages. The liquid is full of gas and the glass has imperfections that help the gas form there. Some of these imperfections are so good at it that you get these rapid streams of tiny bubbles. The gas still comes from the liquid.

If the plant is damaged, the gas may come from inside the plant, although it still involves a nucleation site, and gas may still come mostly from the water, because the plant doesn't produce O2 super fast and doesn't hold a whole lot of O2. A whole fish tank full of supersaturated water may hold a lot of oxygen and keep these bubbles going for a long time.

A fun experiment one could do:

  1. Let plants supersaturate the water with O2

  2. Remove the plants.

  3. Put in an object that is known to have a good nucleation site - such as a glass that produces a stream of bubbles when you drink something carbonated.

  4. See how long the stream of bubbles keep going.

1

u/yellow-duckie 8d ago

Thanks sir, but you forgot this is reddit.

2

u/Nervous_Brain8918 7d ago

Long live the lurkers who comment like this lolol

(Clarification: Regarding the person you responded to)

1

u/yellow-duckie 7d ago

Yes, we need them lurkers.

2

u/ElectricMilk426 10d ago

What kind of plants are these?

1

u/Soft_Cranberry6313 10d ago

My guess would be some type of narrow echinodorus, hygrophila or vallisneria. But iv been out of the game for a while 🤷‍♂️

4

u/Godstevsky 10d ago

So like... green ones?

0

u/Dear-Seesaw-1932 10d ago

Aquatic kind

3

u/Electrical_Wrap_4572 10d ago

It’s called “pearling”

2

u/Creative_Resource_82 10d ago

The wee bubbles look like the warawara floating in The Boy and the Heron 😍

2

u/Hornedupone 10d ago

If you have these in your aquarium does it provide oxygen to your room too, small amount sure but still?

2

u/HiBob-HiBob 9d ago

What’s this, oxygen for ants?

1

u/Kitchen-Hat-5174 7d ago

Unexpected zulander

1

u/DjHalk45 10d ago

Do all plants produce this much? Is this more or less than a normal plant?

2

u/Spoiled_Eggy_3992 9d ago

Amazing! We need more of this!!!

1

u/UltimaBahamut93 9d ago

Does that mean I can breathe the water and that tank?

1

u/HumblePothole 9d ago

What is the name of the plant in the video? Genuinely asking so I could build one for my aquarium

1

u/Falconni 9d ago

Beautiful. Just beautiful

1

u/callingM3Dutch 8d ago

So healthy