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[fuggers]

was swapping over the filter medium from a dodgy cannister filter and came across this growing inside the filter. its a freshwater tank any ideas?

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[Mr_docfish]

Bryozoan

There are plenty of varieties of these in freshwater, this one is the most common in freshwater aquaria

Absolutely harmless - a good guide that water conditions are good.

Edited by Mr_docfish, 30 September 2015 - 04:15 PM.

[fuggers]

cheers

[Buccal]

I myself always wondered what that was.
I've got it growing all around my stingrays filters and valves.

[bigjohnnofish]

you can still leanr something new in the hobby every day i'll stop scraping it off now i know what it is

[Buccal]

Sometimes cichlids jump into my ray chambers,,, and the cichlids don't seem to eat it.
Sometimes when I take a instrument out of the water with it growing on,, I'm pretty sure I can see it moving very slightly,,, creepy looking stuff really.