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hey my 40gal tank that i am fishles cycling i have just started noticing white sort of hair growing on my driftwood.. what is it?? it looks pretty horrible.. should i be worried about it.. is there any way of getting rid of it.. or will it just go as tank matures?

r0b3y

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Just take it out and give it a hard scrub and a good hosing. I would then leave it out in the sun for a few days. Then resoak it for a few more days and then replace it back into the tank.

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kool thanx keith.. but one problem.. one of the peices has 2 anubias plants attached to it.. wat should i do with that?

I agree with what Keith said, that white fuzz is probably fungus.... not something you want growing on anything in your tank. You can remove the anubias from the driftwood and attach them to something else, rocks will work.

Also, fungus tends to grow in stiller water conditions which isn't something you want happening anyway. If you have still spots, they can become anaerobic and cause all sorts of problems with stagnation. Think about adding a power head to the bottom of the tank to keep the water moving and oxygenated.

As keith said, the drift wood should be removed and cleaned to get rid of whatever the fungus is growing on.

This is very normal on driftwood.Cleaning will only be temporary and it will come back. It's perfectly harmless and will disappear by itself in a couple of weeks. It's usually caused by some minute organism decomposing in the wood. Once the decomposition process is complete it will disappear and not come back. Just leave it be, put up with the ugliness for a couple of weeks and it will be gone.

Nothing to worry about.Very normal.

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Actually this is another case where just leaving it alone is your best option.
It's compleatly harmless to the fish, IME, and will just continue to come back until left to go away on it's own. Each piece of driftwood I've had has done this even after extensive prep. Scrubbing it off just clogged up my scrubby pad and still it came back. With the pieces I left alone it went away within a week or so and was alot less hassle.

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Yes, I must agree with Bensaf and Babel on this one. Just leave it be, or at the most, suck it off and out of the tank when you do your water changes.

I do not recomend removing the driftwood and cleaning it. It will go away after a few weeks at most.

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kool thats fine.. as long as it wont harm my fish??
thanks for the help!!

r0b3y