mayphly Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Has anyone else seen this in their tanks? Apparently it's beginning to show up in more and more peoples tanks lately. I've found it in a couple of mine. Apparently it's harmless and easy to remove. It's a type of fungus which feeds on bacteria. Here's a good description of what it is http://www.ivanov.ch/nuisibles.html Vpier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brocknorman Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Haven't seen it in mine sofare Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vpier Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Interesting, have not seen that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jem_xxiii Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Is this similar to the stuff that people say will grow on snowflake type of food if it is left in the tank for an extended period of time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackhead Johny Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Any idea if you can cultivate it? Does a large quantity look like coral? Top pic kind of looks like coral. If it looks like coral will it survive a dye job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmptyThrone Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 i had some on the back wall of my tank, in a spider web shape, looked like slime mold to me. scraped it off and haven't seen it since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbie Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 4 hours ago, TheEmptyThrone said: i had some on the back wall of my tank, in a spider web shape, looked like slime mold to me. scraped it off and haven't seen it since It actually is a type of slime mold! I didn't realize there were fully aquatic species. Does it move like one? I've always wanted to participate in a slime mold race. They're really neat. :3 Shrimple minded 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 I had the white slime mold in my red claw shrimp tank. It would move from place to place. I didn't like it, heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayphly Posted April 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 It actually is a type of slime mold! I didn't realize there were fully aquatic species. Does it move like one? I first heard that it can move today. Learned something new.lol! I took a pic of it and will check back to see if it moves. I like the videos. That's some cool science stuff! corbie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayphly Posted April 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 Tapatalk's acting weird![emoji35] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmptyThrone Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 yeah, it moved, it was weird, you could see the main feeding paths and the the ones it had tried out.The center of it (where the rest all seemed to branch out of) would move 5 or 6 inches a day. I like slime molds, and it didn't seem to bother my shrimp, but they do make a tank look ugly, so I scraped it into my filter. Where, hopefully its still doing its thing, just out of sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayphly Posted April 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 Here's how far my pet slime mold moved over night Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Shrimple minded, corbie and Vpier 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherbee Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 That is awesome! I want some slime mold haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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