White spots on driftwood

[trigiver01]

Hello all,

Over the past two weeks, I've noticed small, white specks appearing on the driftwood in my freshwater 10 gal. My ammonia and nitrites are 0, nitrates never go over 5 ppm, and my pH is 6.4.

Stocking includes three neon tetras, five black neon tetras, and an African dwarf frog. I have all live plants and some java moss.

The spots never grow, they only spread. So far they're not on anything else (glass, fish, rocks, etc.)

Any ideas as to what it is? I'm thinking it's possibly a fungus growing on the wood, so perhaps a good boil and scrub may be in order.

 

[TheFishBoss97]

Have you tried scraping them or touching them, they could be really tiny air bubbles, any close up pics? Possibly air bubbles because the wood is expanding?(not sure about that)

Hopefully nothing wrong,

just a suggestion, you should add a few more tetras to your schools to make it at least 6 for each school. And maybe bottom dwellers.

 

[petluvr]

How long has it been in the tank? Boiling and scrubbing can't really hurt anything.

 

[trigiver01]

That's as close up as my camera can get. They're definitely not air bubbles, though. They're little raised flecks.

The tank has been set up and inhabited for almost three years now. The driftwood was added about two months after the tank was set up. @ Fishboss, yeah I'm thinking I might. I did have a bristlenose in there, but he was getting a little bigger so I moved him to my 60g.

I haven't tried scraping them, as I didn't know what they were and didn't want to knock them off. I may just boil and scrub them to make sure they're not holding some fungus as a vector.

 

[myswtsins]

(If you click the picture twice you can get a pretty good view.) It kinda looks like white bumps I had on some of my wood once (I also had black bumps though). As per the instructions of my wood provider I threw it in the dishwasher to nuke any lingering bacteria, fungus etc. Worked like a charm!

P.S That whole post just sounds.....dirty. :uhoh:

 

[TheFishBoss97]

That's as close up as my camera can get. They're definitely not air bubbles, though. They're little raised flecks.

The tank has been set up and inhabited for almost three years now. The driftwood was added about two months after the tank was set up. @ Fishboss, yeah I'm thinking I might. I did have a bristlenose in there, but he was getting a little bigger so I moved him to my 60g.

I haven't tried scraping them, as I didn't know what they were and didn't want to knock them off. I may just boil and scrub them to make sure they're not holding some fungus as a vector.

For bottom dwellers, I would get pygmy corys I would take the whole piece out, and boil it for an hour in a pot on the stove, and then scrub outside while water from hose runs over it, boil again, and you should be good to go

 

[rufioman]

Agreed. Boil that sucker again and wait it out. I had some awesome stuff grow on my driftwood once that my pleco's absolutely destroyed but it doesn't look like that in your pic. Good luck!

:cheers:

 

[trigiver01]

Will do! I'll keep everyone posted, just in case it turns into a monster and attempts to boil me.