the water in Oh's tank has loads of "stringy" bits in it (not poo), any idea what it could be?
He put fungus control in it last night and it only seems to have been since then. Tia

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is it green and stringy?
if so its probably blanket weed, there is some chemicals you can get rid of it, best to as it can suffocate your fish if they get stuck in it.

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no, its not green and its not thick, I tried to take a snap but it doesnt show up, its white and sparse, best way I can describe it, sorry

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Its probably not. But is his tank heavily planted?

On one of my plants, all of the roots fell of, and they are white and stringy lol

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Hi there,

I think some of the fungus control stuff works by clumping small pices together so that they can be big enough to be caught by the filter, if you can turn up the power on your filter a wee bit it will increase the water flow and the water should clear quicker.

I might be wrong, as obviously I can't see it, but its worth a thought anyway....

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I just advised someone else on the other thread ( oil?????? ) to agetate the water surface to get rid of oil.

When you do do that, it produces bits of oily-string type things in the tank until they are filtered out. Could it be anything like that?

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it sounds bad water ever it is - how difficult would it be to do a part water change?

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Yep, I would agree. If its still there, I would do maybe a 40-50% one, and clean the filters (in tank water of course), and go from there: do more 20% ones if needed, daily, until it disappears. You'd need to redose with whatever you were doing though, of course.

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Hi

As far as I am aware, the fungus control, just like the algae remover treatments etc.. work by grouping the small hardly visable particles that you are trying to remove/control together. When it clumps them together, this makes them larger and you can then see them floating around in the water. This is supposed to make it easier for your filter to catch them when they are pulled through the filter and are removed from the water by your mechanical filtration (the sponge etc... inside your filter) making the water clearer.

If your filter has a high enough output for the size of the tank, then you may want to turn it up.. If the filter you have is undersized for the tank, then it is struggling to turn the water over in your tank at a decent rate.

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Thank you all for your help, intersting aboput the fungus control Selina. OH did a half change, turned up the thr filter a tad and I have to say, this morning there is a vast difference, so thans for all your help

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