Driftwood Fungus during Cycling

[MartyMA]

I know that it is not unusual to get fungus on driftwood. I don't really want to try to vacuum it up since it is a small piece of wood in a small tank. Every time I get the vacuum near the wood it sucks it right out of the substrate. It will probably (?) go away on its own but will any fish or shrimp actually eat it away? I am fishless cycling so not stocked yet.

Thanks.

 

[Jill]

Some of my fish picked at it a little, but I don't think they actually "ate" any of it. It went away completely after about a month (if I remember correctly). I had it on my driftwood and on one of my rocks when I set up my aquarium.

 

[Athaocity]

I read once in an article that some algae eating fish/inverts might eat them away. Same thing happened to my dw. Try Amano shrimps.