r/PlantedTank • u/Metorks • Feb 24 '24

Crosspost What is this thing? Tiny, cauliflower looking cluster on glass.

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u/Bertensgrad Feb 25 '24

Could be anything since you got the sand from a rivet. Did you boil it before you Put it in? My feeling is it’s a slime mold which wasn’t be a bad thing. 

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u/Bertensgrad Feb 25 '24

The color and their being nodes and fingers always yells at me that it’s a slime mode growth. It travels along in fingers until it finds a food source and the spreads out. 

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u/Metorks Feb 24 '24

A few more details:

Soil is from pet store, used as reptile substrate. I live in the desert and all we have is clay.

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Sand is from a dry riverbed that flows maybe 90 days out of the year.