I decided to re-do the decoration portion of my tank today, and added new gravel (wanted a different color) and a new piece of driftwood to the tank. I boiled the driftwood for an hour before placing it in the tank, and also boiled and thoroughly cleaned the rocks before-hand.
I also added three new fish to the tank today... a female guppy, another cory catfish, and a dwarf gourami.
While doing all this customizing of the tank, of course, I removed all the fish so I wouldnt accidentally hit one of them in the head and kill them. They were moved into another small tank, with the same exact water.
Once I finished with the decorating, I let the filter run because the tank was foggy from messing with the sand (I have a little patch of sand in there, they seem to enjoy it). It ran for probably 2 hours, til the tank was clear enough that I could see through it again.
Well, I figured the fish probably werent happy being in such a tiny space, and decided to move them back into the newly decorated tank at this point...
Well, not 5 minutes later I noticed some kind of... tiny tiny tiny white fuzzy dots (not hairlike or wormlike, just dots like the size of the tip of an inkpen). They are everywhere in the tank! Covering everything but the fish.
I googled it and all I found was some kind of worm, but this is not a worm at all. They do move with the flow of the water, but are mainly just stuck to everything in the tank.
So, is it from the driftwood (even though it was boiled for an hour)? The new fish? Why did it happen right after I added the fish back into the tank?
I also added three new fish to the tank today... a female guppy, another cory catfish, and a dwarf gourami.
While doing all this customizing of the tank, of course, I removed all the fish so I wouldnt accidentally hit one of them in the head and kill them. They were moved into another small tank, with the same exact water.
Once I finished with the decorating, I let the filter run because the tank was foggy from messing with the sand (I have a little patch of sand in there, they seem to enjoy it). It ran for probably 2 hours, til the tank was clear enough that I could see through it again.
Well, I figured the fish probably werent happy being in such a tiny space, and decided to move them back into the newly decorated tank at this point...
Well, not 5 minutes later I noticed some kind of... tiny tiny tiny white fuzzy dots (not hairlike or wormlike, just dots like the size of the tip of an inkpen). They are everywhere in the tank! Covering everything but the fish.
I googled it and all I found was some kind of worm, but this is not a worm at all. They do move with the flow of the water, but are mainly just stuck to everything in the tank.
So, is it from the driftwood (even though it was boiled for an hour)? The new fish? Why did it happen right after I added the fish back into the tank?
