I have a 29 gal tank. It has been set up for about two years. It is a community tank.It started growing a whitish, cottagecheese like algae. It started on the glass, looked like it was growing roots, it spread fast, a six inch diameter blob overnight. I scrape it off and it moves to a different part of the tank the next day. The fish are not affected at all. It creeps across the gravel and then dies in about 24 hours. I have done tank changes, scrubbed my plastic and fibre plants as well as decorative rocks. I can't seem to get rid of it. I've replaced filters checked my chemicals and everything seems fine. Someone help me please !!!thank you
gross algae
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Aquatic slime mold. Very interesting. Very interesting. Try a www.google.com search and see if this is an aquatic slime mold.
Is this an episode of Outer Limits?! I am not using a ugf.It is just a white blob of feathery looking algae, I remove it physically every day but am kinda lookin for a long term cure LOL
well wetman you were correct, it is a slime mold. You can grow it , cultivate it, look at the pretty colors it apparently produces. A bit of research is due now on how to kill the sucker. Thanks for your help
How to starve it? Reduce the dissolved organics in the system, rather like starving algae. One aquarist noted (in Aquatic-Plants Digest) that where the slime mold had passed over the glass, hard greenspot algae was entirely eliminated.
So...
..j.ust think of your slime mold plasmodium as "the algae-eater from Planet X."
So...
..j.ust think of your slime mold plasmodium as "the algae-eater from Planet X."
