white specks on my java fern...?

[roarsirroar]

i don't know how long it has been there, but i found it last night. they are solid and you have to kind of pick them off. first it was on two leaves but now its almost on all of the leaves. i put an office rubber band around it recently (one week ago) so it can attach to the ornament...thats the only thing i did to it.

this one i kind of enhanced so you can see the specks better:



gahhh please help!

[Neil D]

Is it possible their snails? I would immediately remove it, cause you dont know what the white specks are...

[roarsirroar]

there was a snail on it when i first bought it (which was like a month ago)...i just picked it off.

i tried to scrape the stuff off. when i took it out of the water i couldnt even see it anymore. i guess in the water it got magnified.

[regalesse]

take the plant out and use a 20 percent hydrogen peroxide solution and spray the plant down with it then gently clean the areas with our fingers under running water. if it snail eggs then you will be able to rub them off with a little effort. if it is anything else the hydrogen peroxide will take care of it.

that is the method that i treat all my plants and i have not lost one to fungus or bacteria and i have not lost a fish yet that came in contact with the peroide.

[roarsirroar]

ok i shall do that!
thank you for the advice<3

[roarsirroar]

bump!
so i did what you told me to do, regalesse
but it came back after a few days :(
i still don't really know what is happening...i'm guessing its a fungus?
but it doesn't clump together, it just a bunch of white sprinkles on the undersides of the leaves...

does anyone know how to prevent this?

[roypattonphoto]

what is your water conditions?... the ferns look pretty bad and look like theyre dying almost...

also , are they planted? free floating (tied to something),

[roarsirroar]

well it already looked bad when i bought it. it was the only one there and i was stupid enough to think i could actually save it...
i don't know my water conditions...i'll go buy a test kit as soon as i can
oh and its tied to fake driftwood with regular thread.

[roypattonphoto]

your main thing u need to worry about is what your PH range is, java ferns dont do weel outside their PH range

[roarsirroar]

well i also have an anubias and it seems to be doing just fine, if that helps