What The Hell Is This In My Tank?!?!?

[Le Sorcier]

Hi all,

I recently got rid of one of my Platys (she was sick) but since then I have noticed something strange in my tank. Not sure if it is related but I've noticed a couple of small clumps of what can only be described as slime attached to my filter. It is clear in colour but looks to contain tiny white spots. Its a bit like miniature frog spawn. I only have Platys, Endlers and Corys in my tank.

Any ideas what it could be?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[WILDER]

It could be the corys, as the other fish are livebearers.
Do you have any snails in the tank?

 

[Le Sorcier]

No snails I can see at the moment.

Could it be Cory eggs?

 

[drewry]

hi Le Sorcier
do you have bronze corys or albino because they lay eggs ontop of eggs like frog spawn

 

[Le Sorcier]

Hi drewry,

I have 3 Trilineatus Corys.

The stuff I can only describe as looking like a small piece of "snotty saliva" containing tiny white dots. And they are very tiny dots.

Thanks

 

[drewry]

it sounds like snail eggs as cory eggs dont have a mukus round them you may not of bought any snails but if uv got some new plants recently they may ov hitched a ride

 

[Le Sorcier]

Haven't had any new plants for about 2 months so I doubt its snails. Could it be some form of parasite?

 

[WILDER]

I would scoop it all out with a net to be on the safe side.

 

[tony_a]

Sounds like snail eggs (in my short experience).

I got some plants from P@H and after about 2 weeks, I had 2 to 5 tiny snails pottering about.

I didn't think much of it at first, as I thought they were kind of cute (they were about 1mm across). But they grow fast as hell, and as they are hermaphrodites, they can reproduce on their own - which they do, at an alarming rate.

Within another 2 weeks, I could count 50 or so.

I now 'pluck' them out by hand, every time I feed my fish (I just get the ones that are near the top) and the population is now less than 10, although I don't think I'll ever get shut properly.

They always seem to lay their eggs on one particular type of plant (which I assume is the plant they arrived on) or strangely, all around my filter.

Tony.

 

[Le Sorcier]

Thanks Tony,

maybe that is it? I have recently bought a plant (since I started this post), and have noticed a small snail. But now I won't know if it was a hatched egg or a hitcher on the plant?

 

[pastabake]

yeah sounds like snails eggs. I find that when I give my gravel a good hoover I discover small snails hiding, so you may not have noticed the snails.

 

[tony_a]

Couldn't help but laugh - how do you know they were 'hiding' ?!