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Posted: December 17 2009 at 6:42pm |
What is this black stuff? Anyone know how I can kill it off?
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 6:55pm |
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It looks like black sponge to me, and is a beneficial filter feeder. It just shows your tank is healthy
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 6:56pm |
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Is a spunge solid? This guy has like "hair" that is really stringy and moving in the current.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 6:57pm |
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By the way that picture is from my cellphone. I was pretty happy with that.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 7:03pm |
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Solid? No it's spongy. :-)
I can't see any hairs flowing around it though, but I'd agree that it's probably a sponge.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 7:25pm |
It could be cyanobacteria.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 7:34pm |
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Its being blasted by flow. I hope its not Cyano.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 8:05pm |
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Sponge...I hate that kind...IME it is an acro killer if you are not careful with it. I see it in my tank and use a toothbrush on it. If you don't have acros that you want to put by it, you're fine.
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Posted: December 17 2009 at 9:31pm |
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looks kinda like the dark cyano I have in my tank
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Posted: December 19 2009 at 12:10am |
Looks and description say Cyano to me. Have you reached in to pluck it off. Was there a knob of rock there? Can we see a full tank pic?
Looks like the hermit is already helping you. How many snails and hermits are in this _?_size tank.
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 10:27pm |
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15 Snails 5 Hermits. Gunna add more this weekend. The tank is 29 G. I can grab off little bits but most remains. Think Im gunna have to pull it out and scrub! Its growing like crazy!
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 10:38pm |
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Still sounds like black sponge to me.
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Posted: December 22 2009 at 3:06am |
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is it slimey, or does it feel like sponge?
I have had both, and they do look similar. Cyano is very easy to pull off and is slimy.
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Posted: December 22 2009 at 7:09pm |
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Its stringy and slimy when out of water. I tried to pick off as much as I could but there are still strings in there. Isn't cyano supposed to recede under high flow. Its directly in front of a Koralina 3. Thanks guys!
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Posted: December 22 2009 at 11:22pm |
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it is "supposed" to but I guess it could live with the flow.... Sponge is not slimey in my opinion.
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