Eden5903 Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 So I have started a 10 gal Crystal Red Shrimp tank and I have been taking out this white (and sometimes brown) stringy stuff. I showed a photo of it to a trusted employee of my LFS and he said it was coming from my Malaysian drift wood. Is this true? Every day I see these small white balls attached to the driftwood but them it disappears. I have also had my ammonia go from perfect to 1ppm and now I have it at 0.15ppm. I am constantly cleaning my sponge filter and I have had 3-4 deaths out of 22. I used neon tetras to cycle the tank and now I am going to put them in a 40 gal. Can you please tell me what is making this stringy stuff and why? All comments are greatly appreciated. Have a good day![emoji2] -Eden Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA SHRIMP KID Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Eden5903 said: So I have started a 10 gal Crystal Red Shrimp tank and I have been taking out this white (and sometimes brown) stringy stuff. I showed a photo of it to a trusted employee of my LFS and he said it was coming from my Malaysian drift wood. Is this true? Every day I see these small white balls attached to the driftwood but them it disappears. I have also had my ammonia go from perfect to 1ppm and now I have it at 0.15ppm. I am constantly cleaning my sponge filter and I have had 3-4 deaths out of 22. I used neon tetras to cycle the tank and now I am going to put them in a 40 gal. Can you please tell me what is making this stringy stuff and why? All comments are greatly appreciated. Have a good day! -Eden Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk take the driftwood out for a week or two ...see if it continues forming on other things in the tank . If not dont use the driftwood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimple minded Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Newly introduced driftwood pieces can often times contain residual sugars and other compounds that promote the growth of a "white fungus" around the wood. This fungus is unsightly but harmless.........shrimp and snails will eat it up. The process usually takes from weeks to months for this process to run its course.........removing it from the tank would only serve to increase this timeframe. If you do remove from tank, I would keep submerged in a bucket to keep this leeching process in motion. Eden5903 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy6107 Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 some newly cycled tanks also get some white scum algae like substance for the first month or two. It too will go away once the tank has matured. Eden5903 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden5903 Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 some newly cycled tanks also get some white scum algae like substance for the first month or two. It too will go away once the tank has matured.Thank you for the advice!Sent from my Badass Phone #GalaxyS7FoLyfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden5903 Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 Newly introduced driftwood pieces can often times contain residual sugars and other compounds that promote the growth of a "white fungus" around the wood. This fungus is unsightly but harmless.........shrimp and snails will eat it up. The process usually takes from weeks to months for this process to run its course.........removing it from the tank would only serve to increase this timeframe. If you do remove from tank, I would keep submerged in a bucket to keep this leeching process in motion.Thank you for the advice!Sent from my Badass Phone #GalaxyS7FoLyfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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