Is my plant possessed or...?

[Lizzyduff]

There's a steady stream of bubbles coming out... WTF

[Mmiller2001]

That's O2 coming out of the damaged leaf. I would cut that leaf off so the plant doesn't waste energy on it.

[Gwallace]

It's hard to tell from the pic if the leaf is actually damaged.  If it is not then I would not trim it off.

[Degenerate]

I have seen this too. I cranked my light up and had a stream of bubbles coming out of the leaf. It was not too long after that I had a bad case of algae.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Degenerate
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[Lizzyduff]

Oh! I just put in a new light... I'll turn that down.  Last thing I need is algae.

[nabokovfan87]

What you're talking about could be pearling.  It could be a leaf releasing,  Check the tank the next day at the same time, X hours after lights on and see what you see.
 

 

 

[Lizzyduff]

Well I'll be... huh. Learned something new today. That's really neat!

[nabokovfan87]

On 7/16/2022 at 11:19 AM, Mmiller2001 said:

That's O2 coming out of the damaged leaf. I would cut that leaf off so the plant doesn't waste energy on it.

This was recently clarified for me. The stream of bubbles is definitely damage of some kind and not pearling. 😞

Maybe I've never seen my plants do it....

Got them to flower, 😂

Anyways, I wanted to mention it just in case anyone who was confused by seeing this in their tank. There is a few threads here on it but I remembered this one and seeing the video and photos and stuff.

Pearling, bubbles on the leaves that tend to stick to the leaves surface.

Damage+gas release is what we see in the image above.

Mmiller was totally spot on!

Now I have to figure out why my plants were doing it and damaged so badly... 🤔