Something Strange In Cycling Fish Tank

[electricalsrus]

I am 7 days into the cycling process. I have soaked and scrubbed the bogwood for 5 days with regular water changes in a bucket before placing it in the tank. It has been in the tank 2 days all was going well when I noticed a strange substance growing enveloping the bogwood. I looks a bit like a jelly fish in texture if I can I will try and upload a pic from my phone. Is this anything to be worried about I ask this as I have come across this before and never had bogwood in a tank. I don't have fish in here obviously only some snails that snuck in on the plants. Ph is high 7.6, ammonia and nitrates nitrites are all over the place would give you readings but have lost data from iPhone somehow. 2 were 0.5 and 1 was 5 can't tell which was which.

 

[indigoj]

snail eggs

 

[electricalsrus]

snail eggs

Would a snail or two snails be able to lay that many eggs to completely cover an 18" long piece of bogwood in 4 hours?
They don't look like eggs but then that's why I am asking.

 

[Wills]

Snail eggs are generaly just a clear jelly I once was cleaning a tank and found a whole underside of some slate covered in the stuff, it might not just be one or two as well they hide in the gravel so there could be a pretty good population hiding in there waiting for lights off. Also I once had some branchy type wood that I was soaking that gave out some funny jelly strands that collected in a clump - rang the shop I got it from which was a maidenhead and they said it was fine theirs released the stuff in their show tank and one of the Pacu's ate it before they could get it out and it was fine afterwards. Still I think I would want to wash the goo off.

 

[electricalsrus]

Have been back to Maidenhead aquatics and have been told it's bacterial and if I had algae eaters it would be eaten even though I told them I am 1 week into a fishless cycle. So have been told to remove bogwood boil it in heavy salted water.

 

[indigoj]

very unlikely to be bacterial, snails lay vast ammounts of eggs so I reckon they'd cover the wood. Boiling will work fine. Algae eaters will not eat them. If you boil in heavily salted water soak in plain boiling water for a while after too.

 

[electricalsrus]

very unlikely to be bacterial, snails lay vast ammounts of eggs so I reckon they'd cover the wood. Boiling will work fine. Algae eaters will not eat them. If you boil in heavily salted water soak in plain boiling water for a while after too.

Thanks will do I asked them if I could use something like snail remover before I add fish or would it knacker my cycle. No real response but was given suggestion of couple of fish that if were not over fed would eat the snails eggs not what I asked lol.

 

[OldMan47]

Snail eggs would be a small patch of maybe an inch in diameter for a pond snail. Unless you have a huge number of snails, I would not expect them to cover large areas with eggs in a day.

 

[djl08]

I experienced this on one of my plants, 2 weeks into my cycle. I was told it was a type of fungus and just to leace it alone and it would go away sooner or later and sure enough after a couple of days it was gone.

- Dj -

 

[electricalsrus]

I experienced this on one of my plants, 2 weeks into my cycle. I was told it was a type of fungus and just to leace it alone and it would go away sooner or later and sure enough after a couple of days it was gone.

- Dj -

Thanks dj it's amazing how many varied responses you get and that's just from the fish stockists. Now I was told to remove the carbon from the tank and only put it in after using medication others say to remove carbon before putting in medicine, I am now well confused. Carbon in and leave in or carbon out and leave out.

 

[waterdrop]

I experienced this on one of my plants, 2 weeks into my cycle. I was told it was a type of fungus and just to leace it alone and it would go away sooner or later and sure enough after a couple of days it was gone.

- Dj -

Thanks dj it's amazing how many varied responses you get and that's just from the fish stockists. Now I was told to remove the carbon from the tank and only put it in after using medication others say to remove carbon before putting in medicine, I am now well confused. Carbon in and leave in or carbon out and leave out.

There shouldn't be any dispute about that I don't think. The first answer should be right. Carbon will "adsorb" (use charge to attract ions) the medicine and render it ineffective. Therefor you should remove carbon prior to medicating a tank and the put it back in the filter after the treatement is over and its time to remove the medication from the water.

~~waterdrop~~