poler_28
04-05-2009, 03:45 AM
I recently purchase 2 nice pieces of Mopani driftwood at the LFS. (I've never used driftwood in my aquariums, and thought it looked really nice) I boiled them at the same time for a whole day, changing water as needed until it started to get clear. It looked great, no more really dark tannins. Now, it's been in my tank for 4 days and it's got this white slimey, stringy looking stuff all over it. I was reading about algae, but I'm not sure if this is sap, or if it really is some type of algae. BTW- I'm 2 weeks into a fishless cycle, everything is reading as it should: Ammonia 4-5, Nitrite between .50 and 1 (color is hard to decide) and Nitrate is just barely above 0 and not quite 5. I'm keeping my water temp at about 85 during the cycle. My water is cloudy and a greenish brown, although I think that may be residual from my silk plants that I had in there that were deteriorating from the ammonia (I have another post about that), even after doing a 50% water change. Any help is greatly appreciated. Is this harmful? Normal? How should I handle the slime.
As a sidenote: I have a goldfish tank and I placed a piece of the same type of driftwood in there(after boiling, of course) and it did get some of this slime on it too, but the younger goldfish was pecking at it and I think eating it. But, of course my 29g doesn't have any fish yet, so there is no cleanup crew in there. But there is just SO MUCH OF IT!! yuck!
As a sidenote: I have a goldfish tank and I placed a piece of the same type of driftwood in there(after boiling, of course) and it did get some of this slime on it too, but the younger goldfish was pecking at it and I think eating it. But, of course my 29g doesn't have any fish yet, so there is no cleanup crew in there. But there is just SO MUCH OF IT!! yuck!