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This was zero help

Thanks for not explaining Jack about the white fungus. Great for you to mention about all the other garbage except what your video is titled.

Wow! Thanks for your impute. I am relatively new to the hobby and set up my first planted tank to which I put in some great pieces of wood. Two days later, OMG, this white web started to come out of the wood. I thought all of my work was wasted. In the meantime, I will add some snails and do more research. Thanks

GREAT VIDEO! New to using spider wood, came home from work to see this and almost removed my piece to clean it again. I no longer have to worry about such things. Thanks

Fungus thrives on decaying wood. You can boil it before use, but fungus is abundant in the environment. Air, soil, plants, water. So, even if you boil the wood the fungus can still be elsewhere in your tank and adhere to the wood and utilize it for nutrients I had this issue, and since I’m an actual microbiologist and mycology specialist: I took a sample and put it under the microscope. It was a Fusarium species fungus (not diatoms or bacteria or algae) A very common plant pathogen. It causes wilt in plants and root rot. What do you do about it? You can either continuously clean it, or let your animals eat it. It’s loaded with protein! If you’re using houseplants like pothos or monstera, their roots can contaminate your water if you don’t clean them with hydrogen peroxide before putting them in your tank. Good luck, y’all

Bro your setup is SICK!

I boiled mine for hours and still got it growing on there.

I like how you built the racking system around the tv. 👍🏾

Ottocats, Plecos, and Nerite snails love it; they clean it up fast!

Dreamy entertainment center... And house. Love love love that space. Great channel. Love your passion and clarity! Blessings!

Lol love the guppies swiming towards your hand in the tank on your right side

Yes i got my 2x wood with white fungus and also my aquarium water is milky as well :P hope it goes away soon as they are new aquarium tanks and not cycled yet, but there are already tonnes of copepods and small micro bugs in my tank

Got this on a lily bulb? I think? I panicked, threw it out and my tank is fine but this is the first video I’ve found that describes this white slime so thanks.

That is the key point @3:20, the white film is not from the wood itself! But organisms already in the tank feeding on the wood! Boiling the wood prior to placement is not for preventing the white film, but for other reasons as mentioned.

I respect your wife man

I'm seeing your comments and I'm not mad. I'm glad that someone said something about the exact issue I'm having and talking about it if even a little. I'm also glad that it isn't the end of the world and I DON'T have to go scorched earth. So, thanks!

I had this stuff on my driftwood which then grew all over the plants and the rest of the substrate and tank and honestly the only way you can get rid of it is to just clean it constantly. If you’re cycling the tank and it’s happening even cleaning it, it will still come back so you just need to be persistent and keep cleaning it. It will eventually die off once the tank is cycled.

Hahaha! When I set up my shrimp tank this happens jelly all over the spider woods i was f scare lol! I quickly remove it and clean it. I put it back but that thing came back... I leave it like that my shrimp are all good!! But the water is kind of yellow but I like it!!! It give that natural look I love it!

I'm glad that my mollies, corry and siamese algae eater eat those fungus 😂

And you have an heavenly aquarium

lmfao "kill it with fire" 🤣

Have you done a vid on floor support and when you need it? Like for a 75 gallon?

Ok, so to anyone who saw this video. Here’s the solution. The white biofilm that forms on top of the bark can be eaten by nerite snails, rabbit snails, and shrimp. Obviously if you have fish in your tank, shrimp aren’t an option. Mystery snails will take care of it and they don’t multiply like crazy Nerite snails don’t do as great a job, but they will also eat it. Rabbit Snails aren’t as great as mystery snails for the job, but you’ll see less poop from fish around. Other than that, it can go away on its own. Clown Plecos in theory should also help the situation. Good luck.

i've had this fungus film in the past.... But, the stuff in my tank reacted to touch, it would be the fluffy stuff all over the wood, but when you touched it... Boom disappeared , then like 30seconds later, blooms back. any idea what it was?

Very helpful, ur setup is amazing 👏

What if it's not the wood? Because I only have fluval stratum soil in the fish tank with a few live plants waiting and trying to cycle the tank. I noticed whatever I dropped in for example like fish food gets covered with some kind of spider web.

You can get it free by collecting from lakes or near by forest

Big fan Sir from India

Every time I look at the wood it makes me gag 😅

I bought a cool piece of spider wood a few days ago and brought it home to boil it and release the tannins. For some reason the wood has taken on a very dark color in my tank (almost black). Does all spider wood do this?I was really hoping for something a bit lighter.

So ... what do we actually have to do with it ?? Leave it in ? Does it reach a MAX growth level and the stop ?

Biofilm > I believe is what it's called

When it happens I just boil it again for 30 mins and it goes away most of the time and if not I just rub it off

So will that white snotty fungus eventually go away on its own

This was the most helpful driftwood video I've seen yet!! Thanx so much grandpa. Haha. Also I've boiled for like 4 hours and soaked for a week, scrubbed and it's still floating. There is a weird looking film on top of water. Should I give up?

How did you come to understand you needed to support the floor? It's 960 pounds or so of water...is it sitting parallel to a joust?

Okay I added a spider wood piece to my tank it made the whole tan dark brown and now there this green already everywhere 🙃 and I did boil it and scrub it with a tooth brush. I'm going NUTS.

I got the same thing on my axolotl tank

Does anything eat it?

How do you fix it

Had I know that Spiderwood leaches out tannis and discolors my water I would never have put it in my aquarium, I didn't boil it and it was too big to boil had it in the aquarium for 3 months now yes the brown discoloration got less and less but it's still turns my water slightly discolored doesn't look good, I decided to go natural with 6.5 gallon and this aquarium is more work then my 36 gallon that is not natural, syphoning the water around live plants and sand is difficult, I'm thinking of taking out the spiderwood and putting a fake one in as least my aquarium won't have brown water.

So how do you bloody get rid of it?? Maybe a bit of advice there would of been helpful

He lost me with his personal tour, so didnt finish the video. Do i worry about the fungus or not?

biofil is making my wate foggy, is this normal?

I also get a green layer type of algae on driftwood, rocks, and in the glass... It's not like hair... Look like a green layer... Do u konw what is it?!

My fish has this on him and he is unresponsive :/ pls help meeeee

Poooop no live bro 😎 letting your subs down man

I go to pet stores and they have wood of all kinds but the brand is zoo med.is that real wood for aquarium fish or it’s fake?

Bruh, your house of full of Tanks 😂

👍👍👍👍

I just keep removing it till it never comes back, Sometimes it goes away in a month or a few months.

I had this when I setup an New tank. I simply added sucker mouth cat fish and he cleaned it over night. Trust me. Just add one and boom... They will clear your white fungus.... So take my words and try

Does spider wood give out alot of tannins

Just put it inside ur toilet bowl tank to sink it. Usually 1-2 days is fine

I have got it on my driftwood and the sucker catfish eats it

I have huge problam right now with this mold on driftwood. And accidently one PONDA SNAIL get in aquaroum with plants i buy. Pond snail make apsolute destruction on this mold!! Only problam is that they breed too much beacuse mold is infinite food source!! But its kind of funny how fast snail eat this drift wood mold!!

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You are a men that loves a fish tank or two

Talk about your up coming “tanks” later I’m here on how to get rid of the white shizzz in my tank bro.

This gave basically no info about how long it lasts or even what you can do about it??

Siamese algae eater will gulp em all.

shrimp eat biofilm

just put platy or molly then problem solve .thats how i deal with it .

U missed a piece while boiling

0:19 just say it bro, it looks like snot

i think it’s beneficial bacteria

I think the issue is this wood is too fresh. It is the roots of an azalea grown and harvested for the purpose, so still contains dried up sap etc. If possible soak the wood for an extended period before aquarium use.

it's not fungus. it's not diatoms.

Well, that was useless.

This was a waste of time

What a waste of my time

If u don’t know how to clean it then don’t make videos