GROSS algae on wood!!!!

[syddakyd]

looks more fungus- like to me, then algae

 

[cichlidfish]

ok thanks and yeah the first two time i took it out and scrubbed it but then this last time did it in the tank to see if that would help and it didnt, i guess i will just have to be patient and see when it finally goes away and if i see a bristle nose pleco or some other pleco that stays small then ill get it i just dont want one thats gonna get over 12in, here is pics of it (sorry for dirty glass had just got done rearranging some stuff and the salt in the water leaves horrible marks lol)

That doesn't look like algae. It kinda looks like woollycotton mold, which is a funus that eats decaying matter. Usually it eats left over food. I would remove the wood and soak it in boiling water. That will kill anything.
Is that an a. robertsoni?

 

[Sarah88]

yeah thats what other people have said to that it is a fungus that this type of wood grows when first put into new tank and that its supposed to go away i just thought that it wasnt supposed to last this long but someone said theirs lasted for 6 months so i guess i just have to be patient... and yeah thats a robertsoni i rescued, he was being kept in tank with super aggressive cichlids and was really beat up but hes almost 100% healed now

 

[Cecropia]

I had this same stuff show up on 2 pieces of mopani, and a big chunk of spiderwood in 3 different tanks. My bristlenoses ate a little of it, my royal did as well.

I dosed for green hair algae in one tank and the meds happened to kill the fuzz. I didn't dose the other 2 tanks and eventually BGA grew over the white fuzz. The areas not covered with BGA faded away after a month or so, the areas with the BGA still contained the white fuzz.
I ran all my wood through my dishwasher on high heated dry before they were placed in the tank to no avail.

Starting last week I manually removed the majority of the fuzz and BGA from all tanks, and nuked them with Erythomycin and AlgaeDestroyer breaking my own "no meds" taboo. The remaining fuzz has died and is gone, BGA is dying.

 

[cichlidfish]

yeah thats what other people have said to that it is a fungus that this type of wood grows when first put into new tank and that its supposed to go away i just thought that it wasnt supposed to last this long but someone said theirs lasted for 6 months so i guess i just have to be patient... and yeah thats a robertsoni i rescued, he was being kept in tank with super aggressive cichlids and was really beat up but hes almost 100% healed now

He looks really good in that pic. That is great you saved him. They are great fish!
Good luck with the fungus. I think you will be able to get rid of it pretty quickly.

 

[limz_777]

ok thanks and yeah the first two time i took it out and scrubbed it but then this last time did it in the tank to see if that would help and it didnt, i guess i will just have to be patient and see when it finally goes away and if i see a bristle nose pleco or some other pleco that stays small then ill get it i just dont want one thats gonna get over 12in, here is pics of it (sorry for dirty glass had just got done rearranging some stuff and the salt in the water leaves horrible marks lol)

its not algae but slime mold

 

[haynchinook334]

reboil the wood.

 

[Sarah88]

He looks really good in that pic. That is great you saved him. They are great fish!
Good luck with the fungus. I think you will be able to get rid of it pretty quickly.

thanks yeah you wouldnt even have recognized him in the store tank, he was completely pale white with bright black stripes and no blue whatsoever i didnt even know it was a robertsoni until someone on here that lives near me told me that it was, but now he looks great and only thing left to heal is a big scrape by his tail where had removed the scales but its almost covered back up nowand hes the boss in my tank since hes like more than double the size of all the juvies so anytime he sees them fighting he breaks it up lol

thanks everyone for the advice i know now its a fungus and not algae, im just going to be patient and let it take its natural course and if i find a rubber lip or bristlenose plec ill most likely get him as well to help out

 

[Alhazred]

ok so i have these two big pieces of mopani driftwood in my tank, they have already been in someone elses tank for a few months and now they have been in my tank for about 4-5months, since then it has grown this really gross looking clear, thick gooey algae of some kind all over the tops of the pieces. i thought this was just something that it would grow since it was new to the tank and that this would go away but its 4-5 months later and the stuff is still growing i have taken the wood out and totally scrubbed it down twice and it still grows back, its really disgusting looking, is there anything i can do to get rid of this? i do 50% weekly wc, and my nitrates never go above 20 and i dont even have any algae growing on the glass just on this wood, its really driving me crazy, would getting a "chinese algae eater" help, would it eat the stuff off of the wood?

i tell this to alot of people but alge only grows where there is food for it to grow.

because there is no growth o the glass we can assume that the issue isnt over nutrient filled water. if it only grows on the wood then that is our answer the wood is provideing the nutrents.


here is what i suggest.

boil the wood.
swap the water
boil the wood
swap the water
boil the wood

put it back in the tank after it cools.


you should do this to try and remove any easily obtained alge food from the wood. also this will kill any left over alge.


another thing to check as the wood might not be the issue is to try to remove the wood and just set it aside for a week or two and see if there is any spot alge growth. if not then the wood is the food source and should be delt with accordingly

 

[cichlidfish]

thanks yeah you wouldnt even have recognized him in the store tank, he was completely pale white with bright black stripes and no blue whatsoever i didnt even know it was a robertsoni until someone on here that lives near me told me that it was, but now he looks great and only thing left to heal is a big scrape by his tail where had removed the scales but its almost covered back up nowand hes the boss in my tank since hes like more than double the size of all the juvies so anytime he sees them fighting he breaks it up lol

thanks everyone for the advice i know now its a fungus and not algae, im just going to be patient and let it take its natural course and if i find a rubber lip or bristlenose plec ill most likely get him as well to help out

How big is your robertsoni? They start to color up around 6''. Bristlenose are great for algae.