slime on driftwood

[chocoholic]

I am fish less cycling a bb tank in preparation for introducing discus. I put piece of cleaned driftwood from my lfs a few days ago. There is now a white fuzz growing on the driftwood. I took the driftwood out. The ammo is 0 nitrites 0.25 nitrates 10. My question is: Should I drain the tank and clean it and basically restart the cycle or can I continue the cycle and then introduce the discus?

[zchauvin]

No!! Keep the driftwood in, this is a harmless slime that will go away. Nothing to worry about.

With those readings you should have a week or less until your cycle is finished. I would highly advise against cleaning the tank and restarting.

[Akili]

Manzanita will develop that white film when you first put it in a tank. After the wood ages a bit it will disappear. Plecos do eat it.

[chocoholic]

Thank you!

[navarro1950]

You might be careful putting the driftwood back in if it was out of the tank too long. it will be safe if you clean it thoroughly before you put the driftwood back in your tank.

[Lighthouse7]

You can pull out of tank when changing water i use scrub pad wipe off with it rinse with water coming from water change put back in tank, will take about a month or so to stop producing white stuff - Lighthouse

[jmf3460]

I put new driftwood into an invertebrate tank so that they can eat this slime. The anamos, cherries, plecos and snails all love to eat this stuff, its a great food source.