It’s everywhere thousands of them it’s killed all the leaves on my Amazon swords and it’s stuck real well to the glassI’ve never seen this ever. This is interesting. Anyone know what this is?
No defo not I’ve kept fish for 40 years or more and never experienced anything like thisIndividually they look like bits of uneaten food that are being decomposed by fungus but since since there’s so many of them I’m guessing that’s not the case unless you’re over feeding by quite a lot
It’s definitely white, it’s only taken about 6 weeks to get to this stage, I initially spotted this and removed about 30 or so but they’re difficult to remove, I kept the light off and covered the tank for a week I also have 4 2 inch Chinese Alfie eaters but it’s so voracious it’s happened in a matter of a few weekslooks like black beard algae, but it's white? maybe it's only the lighting that makes it appear white?
the only type of algae that i know that grows that way is black beard. whatever it is, anything that attaches itself like that ought to be very difficult to remove.
but my question is, how did you manage to not notice it before it was this bad? this is really pushing irreversible, i don't know how you're going to get it off the plant leaves without ripping them up in the process. it looks like it has covered every leaf, and i don't think you can remove every leaf, that'd just kill the plants.
you can try dipping the plants in chemicals if you don't want to completely get rid of them, but i don't know much about that so you'd better ask someone else.
you could also try getting a black beard algae eating fish or add more CO2 (i don't know how much either of those would really help in this case, though). i still can't understand how you managed to let it get this bad with "40 years of experience."
oh, and you can try to turn off the lights in the tank for a few days if you have low light plants. if you do all of that at once, it might go away, but like i said, i think this is pushing irreversible.
Seems you're really stumped. Actually, you could try this species-finder app. It's called "seek". It's an app that can identify any known living thing. So basically you can go into a park and use it to find out all the trees, given you get a good angle. However, it's very finicky, and once I tried to use this app to identify a coral at an aquarium and it thought it was a nudibranchIt’s definitely white, it’s only taken about 6 weeks to get to this stage, I initially spotted this and removed about 30 or so but they’re difficult to remove, I kept the light off and covered the tank for a week I also have 4 2 inch Chinese Alfie eaters but it’s so voracious it’s happened in a matter of a few weeks
ill send some more pics tonightI've been following this thread because I have never seen anything like what is in the photos.