Nick Zarlinga
Aquarium Biologist
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
216-661-6500 ex 4485
"Fish worship... is it wrong??" (Ray Troll)
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:31 AM, kahley [SMTP:kahley7_at_ptd.net] wrote:
> "Nicholas J. Zarlinga" wrote:
>
> > Many times when I see floating algae it is actually mats or rafts that
have
> > floated up from the algae that grows on the bottom. It seems that
after we
> > have a long stretch of warm sunny weather, the algae is
photosynthesizing
> > like crazy and the O2 gets trapped and lifts a raft to the surface.
When
> > it rains, the O2 is expelled and it sinks back to the bottom and
decays.
>
> For sometime I have been suspicious that the drastic change in barometric
> pressure which usually accompanies a strong rain is the culprit in
raising
> algae mats. Is that possible?
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