Furry plants

[MikeT]

Hi guys
I have a planted tank. The water temp is at 29 degrees C. All water parameters are good.
However I’m getting this fine ‘hair’ or dust growing on my plants.
the tank is about 6 months old. At first I was using strictly R/O water. But had some initial issue so switched to tap water with conditioner and things got better.
Can anybody please tell me what this is. What’s causing it and how do I fix it?
I have no other algae issues in the tank

Thanks in advance
Mike

 

[G H Nelson]

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Could be

Oedogonium
Description	A fairly short-length filamentous algae that can give a fuzzy look to plants.
Cause	Low CO2. Low nutrients.
Removal	Check CO2 levels. Add nutrients. Overdosing Flourish Excel, EasyCarbo, or TNC Carbon can help. Amano shrimps, Rosy barbs, and mollies will often eat it.

 

[sparkyweasel]

Also "All water parameters are good." doesn't tell us much. What are you testing, and what are the actual results?

 

[jaisol]

maybe down to over feeding the fish, I think it is fugus, but wait till clever people reply


I have coldwater & goldfish, the plants end up floating and catching food, a good stir around before water change, The white strands suggest fungus /mycelium type growth, just my thoughts. I get lots of it because I over feed particularly fry tanks.
One has to remember, we walk at about 4 mph, slow rivers flow slower, so 4 mph to meters per second around 1.8m/s a 5ft tank changed in 1 sec (check my maffs), .... at 1mph = 0.4 /s meters have changed water. Kinda faster than you thought LOL I'm surprised at the maths.
Most annoying Algae like fast flowing water, Walk up a river, string algae favors faster water you'll see it on rocks in streams. and your filter tubes into your tanks

I have only a few posts and, more often than not I offend folk... or they are polite and say I ramble on, thank you sweet folk.. I'm just old and grumpy 😛🙂P = stick tongue out at all!)


An aquarium is mostly a stagnant pond. An interesting word is laminar. Laminar flow,
The key is O2 with aquariums. If O2 is good then , happy days. O2 get that balance right and most things sort themselves out.

NOT sure if this helps, as I have rambled


I have rambled, O2 and large volume slow flow IS GOOD

 

[MikeT]

Thankyou. I will look into this ))

Also "All water parameters are good." doesn't tell us much. What are you testing, and what are the actual results?

here are my parameters. It’s been 5 days since my last water change. It will be done later today

NO 2 0,1
NO 3 10
PH 7,4
Ammonia 0,018
KH 6
CO2 5,6
PO4 1,0
CU 0,1
FE 0,1