Why is there white and sticky stuff starting to grow on my bogwood?

**Crystal Red Shrimp** · 19th Aug 2009, 12:17

Why is there white and sticky staff starting to grow on my bogwood? i have wash my bogwood afew times but it keeps growing back , anyone got any idea what is it?

**boxedfish** · 19th Aug 2009, 12:41

i think i encountered this problem before with a new bogwood i purchased.. the stuff was gone in around 1 week

**ranmasatome** · 19th Aug 2009, 12:55

Its a fungus. Not too sure why it appears on some wood but i think fish and shrimp consume this or it just disappears on its own after a few weeks.

**Crystal Red Shrimp** · 19th Aug 2009, 12:56

thanks bro just wait and see what happen

**boxedfish** · 19th Aug 2009, 15:49

yup, nothing to worry about other then it looking ugly

**seanskye** · 19th Aug 2009, 16:40

Originally Posted by ranmasatome

Its a fungus. Not too sure why it appears on some wood but i think fish and shrimp consume this or it just disappears on its own after a few weeks.

oops... u mean it disappears on it's own? I threw away 3 pieces of dw thinking that it might spread further...

**cydaph** · 20th Aug 2009, 15:25

I had the same experience as you. My yamato shrimps feast on that fungus in just 1 day. Too bad they're all dead

because of my Balloon ram.

**dEs0latEd** · 27th Aug 2009, 00:44

i noticed the whitish growth on my bogwood after about 2 weeks as i was cycling my tank. i introduced otos and nerite snails and the whitish growth never appeared again.

**Fuzzy** · 27th Aug 2009, 09:38

I also had this problem with some driftwood I bought from 1 of the bros here. It was especially bad during my cycling of 3 weeks. It got thick enough to pick up and hold sand from my substrate even.

About 4 weeks after the tank was up and running it just quietly disappeared by itself. Just leave it alone and it should go away by itself.

**goody992828** · 27th Aug 2009, 12:03

Think is it purely some form of fungus, however there is nothing to worry about. I do encounter this when I first introduce my new bogwood into my tank initially, I even uses a toothbrush to brush it off, but it just comes again, hence I decided just to throw it back in the tank and cycle it, few days later it just disppear, maybe my SAE help me to clear it...