Is This Bad Stuff On My Driftwood?

[Fish Tank Travis]

I noticed this on my driftwood today:





It is some sort of fuzzy looking substance.

A little background:
I got this driftwood down at my local river (Great Miami). I then soaked it for 24 hours in bleach water, and then soaked it for a week in non-bleached water. After that, I put it in my tank and it has been in there 3-4 days. I pretty much keep the lights off at all times, other than a few minutes for feeding time each evening. The driftwood has obviously not sunk yet, just currently waiting for that to happen.

The tank is a 220 gallon tank with a 55 gallon sump. I'm currently running about 1600gph through the tank.

 

[Chub_by]

This is pretty normal on fresh driftwood. Iirc it's just bacterial growth. You can remove it yourself or a pleco would do it for you - in any case it's harmless.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Also, this stuff appears to only be on one out of the three pieces I put into the tank.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

This is pretty normal on fresh driftwood. Iirc it's just bacterial growth. You can remove it yourself or a pleco would do it for you - in any case it's harmless.

Ok, great. I probably won't worry about it right now then. I don't really want to keep a pleco in this tank because I have fire eels in it and don't want the pleco messing with their slime coat.

 

[Fat Homer]

Absolutely normal, happens on a lot of new driftwood, and will as mentioned dissapear on its own after time, or you can manually remove when doing water changes...

 

[Hendre]

Happened on some of mine too, it dissapears after a while. Don't worry about it

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Thanks guys!

 

[shorjai]

i had those in the past but they should be safe