White Fuzz
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I took 7 Neon Tetras out of my 10 gal tank, with the plan of turning it into a CPD tank. I threw away the confetti colored gravel, putting 20 lbs of Eco-Complete substrate with a base of pure laterite. I also baught a new light bulb for the florecent fixture. I added an 8″ piece of mopani wood from foster & smith online. I stocked the tank with 5 CPD’s, 2 small italian val, a piece of hybrid appogenoten, and a dieing piece of hornwart. My concern and the root of this is about this sort of fungus looking white fuzz growing on the driftwood. I soaked it for about 2 weeks before adding it to the tank. I’ve sucked it off with my airline tubing that I used as a siphon, but it just came back. What should I do? The fish dont seem to mind it at all. I also noticed a snail trudging around the tank about a day ago also. Temp 75 F, Nitrate 0 ppm, Nitrite 0 ppm, Hardness(GH) 150 ppm, Alkilinity(KH) 120-180 ppm, pH 7.2-7.5.
Sounds likes a brush or red algae. Does it look like this:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/brush-algae.jpg
If so, then this is actually a red algae (genus Audouinella, other names: Acrochaetium, Rhodochorton, Chantransia). Try soaking the wood or equipment in a 25% bleach solution, then scrub to remove the dead algae. A riskier method is treatment with copper.
Here is a good article that discusses it in depth:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/red-algae.html
HTHs,
-jimIt doesn’t appear to be thread-like, it’s more like a morphus blob. Sort of chunky though, not uniform in depth.
It’s just the wood rotting in the water, having been dry for ages it will slowly start to decay in water and the white fuzz you are seeing is the start of the decay process.
Just keep cleaning it off and eventually it will settle down, I use to remove mine and scrub it with a toothbrush in the tank water removed at water change time.
I’m glad somebody has experienced the same thing. I’ll keep sucking as much off as I can. It seems like algae is starting to move in on the fuzz, hopefully it will choke it out.
algae won’t really have an effect, it really will die back on it’s own.
I’ve got some appearing on new redmoor wood I’ve put in my Malawi tank and I’m not bothered – mind you the plecs tend to eat it!!
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