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meliboouk

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Sorry if this isn't in right category......

I have a tank with white cloud minnows(they have previously breed) and a snail( quite small, had the tank set up for 4/5 months and snail has not long hatched(didn't quarantine plant whoops learnt lesson on that one)

Anyway I was looking in tank and keep finding white patches on glass, they don't look like snail eggs, and as I never saw minnow eggs(just spotted babies) I don't no if they are them, I had got them all of the sides and now there's more......

Here's the pic sorry I it's hard to see but they are flat to the glass, the glass is cleaned twice a week when I do water changes, any help would be appreciated thanks in advance




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Based on the scale, these appear to be very small. And they appear within a few days after cleaning the sides? Are they present on other surfaces as well? Not sure what they are. Old snail egg clusters? Hmmm. I am leaning towards a species of FW Bryozoa. I've seen those develop in a filter on in a pond and I've read of at least one account of it on this forum. But I think those colonies take a while to develop.


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Hi thanks for the response, I've googled Bryozoa up and it dosent look like them, it's appearing within a day of cleaning the sides, and the minnows are eating it aswell, I don't think it's the snail as he/she seems to be on my plant or ornaments and it's not appearing on any of them.


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