Brown /grey Gunk

[poohbear1]

I was doing my weekly water change yesterday when I found a bit if slimy gunk about the size of a butter bean on one of my floating plants.
The ammonia and nitrite are 0 nitrate about 10.
could it be snail eggs as I have a few in the tank just now

 

[waterdrop]

Just stick it under your Zeiss Microscope and check for individual eggs.

Yes, it could easily be snail eggs. You should be able to distinguish that from a bacterial biofilm by the egg bunch being thicker and more jelly-like, whereas a biofilm will be thinner and more grey, usually.

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[poohbear1]

Just stick it under your Zeiss Microscope and check for individual eggs.

Yes, it could easily be snail eggs. You should be able to distinguish that from a bacterial biofilm by the egg bunch being thicker and more jelly-like, whereas a biofilm will be thinner and more grey, usually.

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It was jelly like and yucky lol.
as my floating plants been growing well I cut that bit off and binned it lol
But on the down side my male dwarf gourami was found dead today when the lights went on.
I saw him swimming earlier so dont have a clue what happened to him. He was eating and swimming fine.
Not going to bother with another dwarf gourami they seem to have too many problems

 

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sounds like the dred DG virus susceptibility (did MW put that interesting DG link in a thread earlier this week?)

 

[poohbear1]

sounds like the dred DG virus susceptibility (did MW put that interesting DG link in a thread earlier this week?)

lol yep I was reading it this morning