I wash this off every week and in a day it is back. The snails spend alot of time on the leaves but I can't really tell if they are eating it.
What is this grunge on my plant?
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If you swish the water around over the plant, do particles fall off?
To me, it looks like you have poop all on your plants, along with a little algae on the surface of the plants
To me, it looks like you have poop all on your plants, along with a little algae on the surface of the plants
Doesn't look fungal to me. Looks like particles of food and general crud caught on surface algae on the plants. You could try knocking it off whilst polishing the water with floss in the filter. Personally I don't run floss all the time because it clogs too easily, but a layer to polish water in these sort of situations is no bad thing.
Might be the same as my case two weeks ago after I started planting my 40G low light. Sooner you will see a lot of holes on the leaves - diatoms and particles from the water. My little CAE has done its job within 2 days. No need to say I spent 2 hrs to catch the guy from my 29g.
:lol: I also have chinese algae eater and i know how hard to catch these guys. they also clean my plant really well but don't eat much algae compare to SAE.