driftwood slime???

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is it normal for driftwood to develope a thick slime on them after sitting in the tank for a week or two? can the biozyme colonize on it and create the thick leyering? just wondering if this is natural or if the driftwood could be leeching it into the tank water. :WHOA:
 
my driftwood gets kinda slimy sometimes. its in there for months n months, even wood in the wild is all slimy. as long as it aint moldy slime
 
Keep a lookout for one of those micro-vac attachment sets. There is a brush attachment in it that I use, and it works great. The wood will look like brand new when you are done. Put it on the end of a syphon wand and start with the wood when you do your cleaning.
 
I know what he means, I get it too, it's a white film and it will usually plague a certain piece of driftwood in the tank. I've come to the conclusion that it's biological bacteria.

Edit: You can sort of see it on the wood in this photo, underneath the algae and sand :p I believe those cobweb like white crevices are what he's talking about.

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japes;1720926; said:
I know what he means, I get it too, it's a white film and it will usually plague a certain piece of driftwood in the tank. I've come to the conclusion that it's biological bacteria.

Edit: You can sort of see it on the wood in this photo, underneath the algae and sand :p I believe those cobweb like white crevices are what he's talking about.

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yeah just a white film but mine completely covers the driftwood and i hope its biological bacteria cuz it cant be good if its something else
 
i've seen it on wood in my tanks never real drift wood but when ever i go out and try to collect my own drift wood from native trees the kind that never sink on there own i've gotten this slime but on african drift wood i've only seen green algae
 
I never had that white slime on my driftwood but I do get algea covering the whole piece sometimes, when it gets really bad I get about 10-15 glass shrimps and they clean it right up.
 
i get it in all my tanks.. just turn yer wood from time to time so yer sucker fish can get it.. or if you dont have any just scrub it clean with a dish brush/old toothbrush... i also get it on my smooth rocks..

my pleco/others take care of it for me though
 
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