white slime on rock

[missmandy]

hi my 90 gallon is a week and a half into cycling and i notice on one of my big rocks there is this whiteish slime growing on it and it looks hairy. anyone know what it is?

[PoisonJello]

not sure exactly what it is but if you have driftwood in your tank that is probably where it came from or at least that is what my 10g tank did but most of it just stayed on the wood some on the rock ,so i took them out and cleaned them, never came back after that

[KLKelly]

I have no clue but I'm interested though.

I did a few quick google searches - a number of them mention drift wood like the previous poster.

Some of them mentioned decaying live rock - but I think this is only relevant in reef/saltwater aquariums.

I hope you find out what it is!

Karrie

[missmandy]

it doesnt seem to be on the driftwood, only the rock. I bought the rock at BA i think its called lace rock but i'm not sure.

[busdriver]

I have some on some new driftwood I bought, took it out of the tank, cleaned all off, put it back in the tank, it came back, so as there is nothing else but driftwood and gravel and water in the tank, I'm just going to wait and see what happens to it.
If it gets too bad I'll take it out, put the driftwood in boiling water and then see if it comes back.

[PoisonJello]

well if it is only on your rocks and your rocks came from BA then I am guessing its something on the BA stuff because that is where my driftwood came from also...after i cleaned it off teh wood it came back a bit but i put 2 apple snails in there and they cleaned off the little bit that did come back

[busdriver]

The pictures describe what is on my driftwood!
Can you tell me what it is?

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[KLKelly]

I found this post on the loach forum: http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?p=44944&sid=33ddba1cdea2253180a0034dc7590ec0

One post:  What kind of tree is it? Could be surface rot, which means the branch isn't completely dead yet. This happens a lot for wood that's extremely porous, lots of microbes still alive and kicking in there.

Another: Frequently 'driftwood' will develop white/clear/stinky (but it shouldn't smell sulfuric) slime when initially placed in an aquarium. If you don't have snails or a pleco to clean it, it will hang in there for a while but usually goes away on it's own after time. Boiling doesn't seem to stop it. I've read it sometimes comes from wood that hasn't been cured enough and still retains some of the natural sap or live organics in it.

Maybe the rock has organics in it somehow ?

Karrie

[RoxyDog]

Terry, that looks n-a-s-t-y!  but it looks like what I had a bit of on a piece of wood before.  my pleco and snails did indeed clean it off for me.

[PoisonJello]

that picture is the same thing I had on my driftwood but i didn't let it get that bad  that looks terrible
oh ya mine stinks bad also