Re: [AGA Member] RE: Foreign substance

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Good luck, but the gel sounds more like rotting than
germination.  But I'm only basing this on the showers I had
to clean up to repair back when I set ceraminc tile for a
living ;-)

Scott H.
--- Harold LaRoux <hlx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> It looks very well organized and purposeful. I have since
> grabbed one of
> the threads with tweezers and picked it up out of the
> water. It held up
> nice and firmly although the threads collapsed like wet
> hair while it
> was out of the water. I also noticed while I had it out
> of the water
> that there is a jelly like clear material around the core
> about twice
> the core diameter. I dropped it back into the cup and it
> went right back
> into it's spherical floating shape. It definitely seems
> to be designed
> to float away on the water current. I set the cup on the
> window sill.
> Maybe it will hatch/sprout.
> 
> > Sounds like fungus growing on a piece of something
> dead, or on uneaten
> > food.
> > 
> > Mike Wickham
> 
> > 
> > Could it be some type of mould (threads) growing on a
> piece
> > of organic matter (the core)?
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Harold LaRoux <hlx@sbcglobal.net>
> > > To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 8:20 PM
> > > Subject: Foreign substance
> > >
> > > I have a newly setup tank that I noticed something
> > > floating in shortly after adding some new plants. I
> > > have to admit that since I didn't really rinse the
> > > plants off well, I don't know if it came from the new
> > > plants or was already there from some previous
> > > plantings, but here's what it looks like.
> > >
> > > It is spherical and about the size of a small marble
> in
> > > diameter. It has a center core that looks somewhat
> > > fibrous with very thin white hair-like threads
> > > extending outwards. The core is a darker opaque sort
> of
> > > ivory color. Imagine if you clipped off the head of a
> > > dandelion seed pod before any of the tiny seeds had a
> > > chance to blow away and this is what this looks like.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? It definitely seems to be vegetable in
> nature
> > > but I am very curious as to what it is. If it is a
> seed
> > > of some sort, should I put it back in the tank?
> 
> 
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