[AquaticLife] fuzz on my driftwood
Well… I was pretty certain that doing a PWC wouldn’t cause this “fuzz” to grow on your driftwood. It’s just a natural thing that happens with certain driftwoods. They are organic so things will grow on and in them. Pleco’s and probably other fish actually eat the wood as a part of their diet. Just like any other food, mold/fungi can grow on them. It could be one of the “foods” in the ecocomplete or fluorish that provides an added food source along with the driftwood that promotes this fuzz. If you hunted around in all of the various planted tank forums and pleco forums, you might find a pattern.
In a new tank (and an old one), all kinds of things can happen as the ecology of the tank gets established or changes. I’ve also seen it happen to my existing tanks after I moved, following Katrina. Since I changed the ecology in the tanks, due to the move, I had all kinds of new “critters” sprouting up in the tanks. Now that the tanks ecology have re-established themselves, I don’t have all the critters popping up.
Just like in nature, there needs to be a balance of predators and prey, which self regulate based on the available food supply. If you disrupt the amount of prey, then the predators die off. If you disrupt the amount of predators, then the amount of prey will increase. I’m starting to sound like Mr. Miyagi… “Danielson, you must have balance!” LOL
And as far as your question about doing another PWC? I don’t think one can ever do too many PWC’s… LOL Well, I guess if you were doing PWC’s every 10 minutes, that might be too many, although Mother Nature does that and more in fast flowing streams. “Dilution is the solution for pollution!”
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