white specks - a little worried

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I came home from work today and noticed that the 2 pieces of driftwood had little white specs on them. I then noticed them on my Datnoid which got me a little freaked but if he moved fast or rubbed up against somthing they would fall off. What is this stuff? It looks like dandrift almost.

The tank has been set up for years, and the drift wood has been n there for just about a yr, and I never seen this b4. water params are perfect just did water change yesterday.

I have added two 2inch dats to the tank a couple days ago and a divider to keep them away from the larger fish - thats the only new things added to my tank. The fish all look healthy and are still eating but i am worried since i never seen this b4.

I have heard of new driftwood getting a white algae on it, but that was always discribed as a white fuzz, this is like dandrift or looks like a powder

if anyone has any idea PLEASE let me know, i am freaking a bit and do not have the least bit idea what it is.
 
Could be ich.
 
not ich, driftwood does not get ich as far as I know and it falls right off the dat if he swims at any speed at all - and the dat only gets more on him when we swims underneath the drift wood

- doesnt look like ich at all


OH and...... i have been feeding the new small dats blood worms (something that I have never used in my tank b4) and I got rid of my clowns loaches a few weeks back so I have had a bit of a surge of those annouying little snails. Not sure if either of these may help anyone figure it out.
 
well im suprised i stumped everyone on MFK, but everything seems to be ok now. white specks are gone, fish are fine, so i guess its not a problem.

My theory - it was some kind of bacteria bloom. I usually move the driftwood from one tank to the other when im cleaning the gravel, but because i have that divider in now, i actually had to lift the driftwood out of the water and over the divider to the other side of the tank, then back again when i was done cleaning that section of the tank. Maybe the wood getting hit with all that oxygen and all the bacteria that is on the wood caused some type of (harmless) outbreak

If anyone all of a sudden thinks they knew what it was, let me know. Still curious
 
I'm taking a guess here but does it look like small grains of sand? I had small, white specks and realized it was from the ceramic rings in my filter crumbling. Might not be the answer, but at least I tried, The Doctor.
 
I have HOB's so I do not have any bio media.

I have had one death, i do not think it was related to the white specks.

Oh an I was re-reading my last post and noticed I wrote "I usually move the driftwood from one tank to the other when im cleaning the gravel"
I meant one side of the tank to the other
 
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