mrktilley

in my taknk on the gravel i seem to have whilte cloudy looking susbstance on the rocks and it seem to accumulate on my plants, it looks more like clumped spider webs but visible.

fishrule101

It could mean you have over feed or something like that. I 've seen it before in tanks that have not been cleaned. You can problably get it to come off by cleaning the gravel.

pepetj

Likely some algae, bacterial, fungus... no need to ID it, just take that portion of gravel and rocks out of your tank. Rinse them in chlorinated water: e.g. use 2 or 7 drops of standard Ajax or Chlorox -no additives- per liter or gallon of water, dump your whitey covered gravel and rocks there for 5 minutes, then rinse thoroughly in cold tap water, then suddenly change to hot water. Let it dry. Rinse in treated water and add back to your tank.

Please note that some decor is prone to develop that type of white coating thing. There's a thread here in fishlore forum with pics about that happening to more than one fishlorian. I tried to find it but couldn't.

Pepe
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Lucy

Pepe, I've never heard of using Ajax (not saying your wrong) for anything going into an aquarium. Have you used it?

I've used bleach to sterilize things then rinsed in water od'd with dechlorinator until there's no longer a bleach smell.