weird things on my plants

**illumnae** · 14th Aug 2007, 22:54

does anyone know what the brown streaks on the leaf of my echi. are? i found some on my lotuses too...they kind of look like pieces of faeces, but they appeared when i had absolutely no fish in my tank. hopefully they're obvious enough to be seen. could they be snail faeces or eggs? or even worm faeces or eggs as all i see in my tank are some red worms and snails that i suspect were brought in by the plants (have since added a baby puffer in to tackle the worm and snails)

Sorry for the quality of the photos. the only camera i have at home right now is my phone camera

**illumnae** · 16th Aug 2007, 21:15

bumping this thread =P

**samuelgoh** · 17th Aug 2007, 02:10

possible to be dirt ? u got try rubbing them off with ur fingers ?
my tank got these too, but finer...
something wrong with my eco-system, now changing water + bump in stress enzyme weekly... thats wat i got for neglecting the tank =/

**Aeon** · 17th Aug 2007, 02:54

Could be brown diatoms/algae.

**bryan** · 17th Aug 2007, 09:11

Bloodworm cocoons?

**illumnae** · 17th Aug 2007, 10:09

thanks for all the responses =)

i originally thought it was dirt or diatom/algae too, but it seems weird for all of them to be similarly streaked onto the leaves of my plants, unless my water current was making them settle that way. i found 2 stuck on the glass in the same shape though, so i don't think it's that, unless algae forms in such shape?

hopefully it's bloodworm cocoons like bryan guessed, then my fish will get free food

can anyone else provide any other insight?