Ahhh!

[Somethingsfishy]

On the bottom of my tank there's these HUGE clouds of white stuff that MOVE! they go from one side of the tank to the other and move and up and down the tank...they go where ever the food is...also it completely covered an anacharis plant that is rooted into the substrate and after the clouds moved off it I looked closely and seen very small 'nibbles' or holes in the plant...I tried vacuuming all of this out but it didn't work...they end up coming back DOUBLE everytime I try cleaning the clouds out. What the heck do I have? For some reason the planaria in my tank and snails get as close as possible to this stuff...and the shrimp HATE it...they go near it they jerk back like it was trying to eat them or something...PLEASE HELP! Also I noticed anything that comes near it .. it sort of absorbs it

 

[fishlvr]

Although I have no idea what it could be...it sounds like you have your very own horror movie going on in there

 

[Oscar_Mania]

Sounds like something I had a while back. I kept getting these white masses in my tank near the surface where the food was. Upon inspection under a microscope they appeared to be mite like with legs and heads. That may be what you have as these things seem to breed like crazy. Every morning when I looked at the tank, there were more. Eventually they went away perhaps because it was too hot for them to survive. You could try upping the temp. These things didn't seem to harm my fish. I think they mostly feed on plants. Another observation I made was that their guts were green with the algae that was in my tank.

 

[becky_e]

If you have a digital camera, I'd love to see pictures of these things!

 

[Somethingsfishy]

Fish- Yes it's scary..
Oscar- very interesting....Can't up the temp anymore...will kill my pond plants i have in there...it's already around 75 degrees...
Becky-don't have a camera wished I did.

 

[KrazeeFishLadee]

Will your tank creatures be ok with a salt round??? Maybe the salt will dry the "bugs" up?? Just an idea! I really have no clue!!!

 

[125gJoe]

Somethingsfishy,

Wow that's strange.. Just wondering, how often do you change out the water?

 

[Somethingsfishy]

Once a week

 

[9tails]

Urgh, sounds horrible. Bit of a catch22 situation though, if you up the temp the plants die, if you don't then the white cloud will eat them anyway...

 

[TonyN]

What kind of pond plants do you have in there that you cant raise the temp.
I have a pond outside with all kinds of plants that do fine in weather that gets close to 100 degrees some days. I'm sure your plants could survive at least 85 degrees. At least I would try that rather than put up with that horrible stuff you have in there.