white slime on manzanita

[DEUCE22]

I stuck 2 nice looking branches in my 60 gallon that i planned on turning into a cardinal shoal tank and the branches seem to have this slime growing on them ..

before i go putting any innocent fish in there, is this sap leeching from it being suddenly submerged and is it harmful to fish? is there anything i can do to get rid of this stuff without actually taking them out of the tank?

it'd be a real shame to trash them if there's nothing to do about it lol

any manzanita experts out there willing to share their knowledge?

 

[Fishwhore]

thats the tree sap leeching out.. the fish like to eat it. my discus and tetras eat it up. but what i did was just bought 10 ghost shrimps and they clean that mazanita wood good. i then later removed the wood and hosed them down to clean them. its been clean ever since.

 

[aclockworkorange]

IME, it happens with almost any branchy wood you put in your tank... Strangely my new manzanita I put in a couple weeks ago didn't get it. But I've gotten it before. I've always just left it in and it clears up on its own after a while. Really not sure if its tree sap or what...

 

[3dees]

don't worry. it's unsightly but harmless. a bn pleco will get rid of it, but it will disappear in a month or so.

 

[Jc1119]

As stated above, it's unsightly, but harmless. Just about every one of my 20 or so pieces of wood got this. Sap leeches out and feeds a form of algae.... my plecs and rainbow shark go nuts for it. Usually takes about two weeks to run it's course. Maybe a week with any kind of algae eating fish in the tank

 

[Greg31]

This is reassuring because I just had this problem.