Sweet_Emotion84
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A few weeks ago, I set up a 10-gallon aquarium that I had had in storage. I had cleaned everything in it and set it back up. A couple of weeks after it being up, I started smelling a weird smell and started seeing white fuzzy/stringy stuff on my air stones and decorations. I tried cleaning everything again but finally gave up.
Last Saturday, I bought a new 10-gallon aquarium (this is all I have room for in my apartment) with a new filter and new gravel. However, I kept three of the decorations that I had in the old aquarium (I had washed them in hot water and scrubbed them). Three days ago, I noticed the white stuff growing in the new aquarium on the decorations and filter intake tube. I took the decorations and intake tube out, placed them in a water/bleach solution for 30-45 minutes, rinsed them off, and then soaked them in water/Start Right overnight. I also did a 50% water change. Moving everything around stired up more of this white stuff but it got sucked up through the filter and I didn't see it for a day or so.
Today, I see it on decorations that I had soaked and on some fake plants that I had just put in yesterday. It's also on the intake tube again. When I pull the carbon pouch out of my filter, there is a white/clear slime all on the back of it.
I have no fish in there and no live plants. I don't turn the light on very often. The aquarium is near a window but there isn't direct sunlight on it and the blinds to that window are almost alway closed. The pH is fine, temp. is 78 F, the color on the ammonia test strip looks like it is around .25 mg/L (it is difficult to determine - the color indicator doesn't really match any of the colors on the chart).
Is this white stuff okay? Is it normal cycling? Or is it some kind of fungus that got transferred from the old aquarium via my old decorations?
In the picture below, you can see some of it hanging off of the Eiffel Tower, the intake tube of the filter and some on the blue plastic plant in the back.
Last Saturday, I bought a new 10-gallon aquarium (this is all I have room for in my apartment) with a new filter and new gravel. However, I kept three of the decorations that I had in the old aquarium (I had washed them in hot water and scrubbed them). Three days ago, I noticed the white stuff growing in the new aquarium on the decorations and filter intake tube. I took the decorations and intake tube out, placed them in a water/bleach solution for 30-45 minutes, rinsed them off, and then soaked them in water/Start Right overnight. I also did a 50% water change. Moving everything around stired up more of this white stuff but it got sucked up through the filter and I didn't see it for a day or so.
Today, I see it on decorations that I had soaked and on some fake plants that I had just put in yesterday. It's also on the intake tube again. When I pull the carbon pouch out of my filter, there is a white/clear slime all on the back of it.
I have no fish in there and no live plants. I don't turn the light on very often. The aquarium is near a window but there isn't direct sunlight on it and the blinds to that window are almost alway closed. The pH is fine, temp. is 78 F, the color on the ammonia test strip looks like it is around .25 mg/L (it is difficult to determine - the color indicator doesn't really match any of the colors on the chart).
Is this white stuff okay? Is it normal cycling? Or is it some kind of fungus that got transferred from the old aquarium via my old decorations?
In the picture below, you can see some of it hanging off of the Eiffel Tower, the intake tube of the filter and some on the blue plastic plant in the back.
