White streaks in tank

LadyLail

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Dec 31, 2008
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What are the white streaks that are forming on my tank glass and some of the tank ornaments over the past 3 or so days? I've had quite a time with this tank as I ended up having to put my fish in before the cycle was complete (long story). Anyways, the cycle ended up killing 2 of my Rainbows and 3 of my Danios with a white tuft body fungus and about killed another Rainbow with a mouth fungus. So, I'm assuming this is yet another repercussion of the tank being unstable, but I'm not sure how to fix it without doing more harm than good. My ammonia is between 0 and .25 and I can't tell you my nitrite/nitrate reading because I haven't had time to take a sample to my LPS. My pH stays consistently at about 6.5, temp around 74 and I used some Stress-Zyme to help cycle my tank when I had to add the fish (about a month ago). Did a 25% water change after the last treatment for the mouth fungus about 2 weeks ago. Oh, and I've been doing this forever, so I'm not a moron, just haven't come across this stuff before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
 

May 7, 2010
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Have you ever used Ammo-Lock? I found that each time I used this stuff I would get those white streaks and it looked like a powder all over the tank. I just used a magnet cleaner and ran that over the glass and it took it off and the next day everything looked great. I wont be using the ammolock anymore though. I believe it caused a lot of my problems. I have a 55 gallon tank with a couple mollies some platys and danios and a betta. Of course there is the giant pleco in there too keeping everything nice and clean. Good Luck.
 

LadyLail

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Nope, no Ammo-Lock. Haven't even heard of the stuff! haha I'll do a cleaning this weekend because it's not harming my fish- or at least it doesn't seem to be. Just curious about what it could be. But it's not powdery; it's little, short, worm looking streaks everywhere. If it's weird, it'll happen to me! lol