Help! White stuff in tank! Algae? Fungus? Bacteria colony?

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Unikorn

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I had a big problem in my 5 gallon hexagon tank with the white stuff on the gravel, filter ect. I put a few ramhorn snails in the tank and its almost all gone.
 

Star_Rider

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I've seen early BBA appear like this..I've also seen Cladophora Algae appear like this
typically BBA is black.. in my QT I 've seen this recently which started out light in color (lt brn nearly translucent)
in my 75 discus tank it appears as Cladophora..light tan/translucent..I did a black out in the75 which cleared the problem.
I then transformed the discus tank into a low tech tank and it's been goine ever since then.
 
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