strange fungi is back

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Lspooky4

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Last month I had some sort of fungi growing in my tank. It was white and stringy, growing mostly in the overflow and spreading from there. I tried treating it with Tank Buddies anti fungi, but it didn't work. After that my heater crapped out, and the temp of the tank droped to about 77 degrees. That seemed to kill off the rest of the fungi. But then I got another heater and once the tank temp was up the fungi came back. It's all in the overflow right now. I unpluged the heater to try and kill it off again. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of it for good? Ive tried water changes and completly cleaning/scrubbing the over flow.

Thanks much
 
i dont have any pics, im working on a way to get some on my comp, its not affecting the fish at all as far as i can tell, but it affects the filtration. im trying to use this tank as a breeding tank for my 210, and i dont want to transfer anything from the 90 to the 210 as to not contaminate.
 
sounds kinda like hair algae try keeping big ghost shrimp in there if you could or just get alot of them and theyll tear it up
 
Raising the temp should have an adverse effect on the fungus. I suspect you're not dealing with a fungus but with a bacteria. Some detritus-eating bacteria colonize in the likeness of a fungus. Tell us about your setup. I.E.; substrate, rockwork, driftwood, plants, foods, etc.
If it is bacteria, the only way to control it is to have the system's nutrients taken up by your biofilter. That means many and frequent gravel washes and water changes until the normal aerobic bacteria population overruns the detritus-eating bacteria population. If you have driftwood pieces, take them out a give 'em a sniff. If they smell like a swamp or a little like vinegar, toss tham out the door. A swampy smell means the wood is rotting. The vinegar smell means the wood was too green when it was submerged and the sugars still in the wood are fermenting (this will definitely cause a bloom of bacteria in the tank).
 
THis sounds like a bacterial film. Is this a messy aquarium? I have had a similar thick film in my overflow boxes and in my sump in aquariums that are dealing with excessice bio load. (or were newer set up's) Although it was not hurtint the aquarium, I just wiped it all down and stepped up the water changes to help decrease the excessive organics the tank was processing. THis fixed it.

At a warmer temperature, the speed of the processing of the waste in your aquarium was faster than when it's cooler. THis may explain why this happens when it was warmer.

Also, it's bad having your temp going up and down, keep your tank at a constant temperature.
 
this tank is pretty messy at the moment. it is home to about 50 apple snails growing large enough the sell the the LFS. so with enough water changes and getting rid of those snails, you think this will clear up on its own?
 
And keep cleaning off the out flowwhere it is growing.
 
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