my cold water fish tanks are producing li white fungus on the filters?

Question

in my cold water fish tanks cotton like fungus is growing on the filters and are somewhat like slime what is this exactly and how can it be removed?

Answer 1

Is it little white balls of cottony-looking fungus? If so, those are just pellets or flakes of fish food that started to mould and fungus because they were not eaten. You can easily remove them with an aquarium sponge or a gravel vacuum. In the future, only feed what your fish can eat in 30 seconds, twice a day. Any more than that, and you're overfeeding. Fish have very small stomachs.

If it's more like a white scum, that is just a buildup of gunk made up of fish poop, uneaten foods, and other residues. Remove with aquarium sponge and/or gravel vac. Increase cleaning - you should be replacing 30% of the water once a week. Make sure you do this - or more - every week. Do not overfeeding, and perhaps look into getting more powerful filtration. Coldwater fish are notoriously more pollutant that warmwater fish, and anyway, filter ratings aren't worth much. I always get filters rated for about double whatever my tank is (ie my 10 gal has a 30 gal filter, my 30 gal has a 60 gal filter, and my 100 gal has 250 gal filter).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I've noticed this cotton like grainy textured fungus too in my tank - I am finding gravel clumped up together tightly, and it's also crawling up some of the plants. I've tried removing these infected areas but that doesn't seem to have helped. The fungus seems to be spreading fairly fast.

I need help too!

Answer 4

How often do you change your filter? You should make the change once a month....an algea eater in the tank will help from getting the green slime...when is the last time you did a partial water change? Take care of the tank...sounds like neglect

Answer 5

I would suggest to either change your filter cartridge more often or change your water more often.

Answer 6

Salt or Fresh water... be more specific.