What is this growing in my tanks?

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FishyLady
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What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by FishyLady » Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:58 pm

Hi everyone,
Haven't been around for a while, I moved house & successfully moved my fish as well!!!
Can anyone tell me what this sticky lacy stuff is that is growing in my tanks? it is on the plastic plants and also in the filters, it doesn't seem to harm the fish at all just looks unsightly.
Thank you,

Val
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Re: What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by Jules » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:25 am

Hi Val

Any chance of a photo or two ?

Jules :)

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Re: What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by Diana » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:33 am

What color is it? Some algae and mosses can be lacy, but I am not sure about sticky (I have not had any sticky algae in my tanks)
Is it really growing, alive? Or could it be slime coat, shed from irritated fish?
How about eggs of snails (gooy blob) or frogs (I just had a nice hatching of frog eggs in an outdoor aquarium)
38 tanks, 2 ponds over 4000 liters of water to keep clean and fresh.

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Re: What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by FishyLady » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:11 am

It does look like a small grey coloured lacy moss. I also have these very tiny white things on the glass which seem to move, I've got it in both my goldfish tank and my tropical tank.

Val
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Re: What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by Diana » Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:04 pm

Tiny white things on the glass could be a couple of different things.
Hydra grow a bit larger than 'tiny' and look a bit like a miniature anemone: Perhaps 1/2" long, mostly tube body, has tentacles at the top.
There are a lot more things it could be, too.
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Re: What is this growing in my tanks?

Post by glenna » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:22 pm

are the tiny white things worm like?... like maybe planaria?
glenna

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